Mac Mini User Guide

First steps
Unpacking
Your box contains
a Mac mini
a ability adaptor
a ability cord
an Apple Remote
a DVI to VGA adaptor
Basic features
On the foreground of your Mac mini is a slot-loading optical drive. The congenital bittersweet (IR) receiver lies to the adapted of the slot, and the ability indicator ablaze is at the basal right-hand corner.
At the aback of the Mac mini, you accept two rows of features. Along the top row, from larboard to right, are
the ability button
a aegis aperture for a cable and lock
an audio in/optical agenda audio in port
a headphone out/optical agenda audio out port
Along the basal row, from larboard to right, are
a ability port
an Ethernet anchorage (10/100/1000Base-T)
a FireWire 400 port
a DVI video out port
four USB 2.0 ports
AirPort Extreme wireless technology and Bluetooth® wireless technology are central your Mac mini.
Power adaptor
Strip abroad the artificial blur from your Mac mini and the ability adaptor. Abode the Mac mini on a abutting apparent adapted ancillary up or on its side, and abutting to an electric socket. Your monitor, keyboard and abrasion should aswell be abreast at hand.
Affix the ability bond to the ability adaptor
Put the bung on the end of the ability adaptor's advance into the Mac mini's ability port
Bung the ability bond into the electric socket
Please note: never abode annihilation on your Mac mini. Objects on your Mac mini may agitate the optical drive, the AirPort Extreme wireless signal, and the Bluetooth® wireless signal.
Peripheral set-up
Your Mac mini is BYODKM - accompany your own display, keyboard and mouse. Use the ones you already accept (almost any are suitable).
Keyboard and mouse
Connect your keyboard to a USB anchorage on the aback of the Mac mini. Affix your abrasion to a USB anchorage on the keyboard or on the Mac mini.
Windows-based keyboards may not accept specific Mac OS X Command and Option keys. The Windows logo key, however, is agnate to the Mac OS X Command key, and the Alt key is agnate to the Mac OS X Option key.
To adapt the keyboard
bang Apple>System Preferences
bang Keyboard & Mouse
accept Modifier keys
chase the awning instructions
Please note: if you use a USB keyboard and abrasion fabricated by a aggregation added than Apple, you may charge software drivers. If you don't already accept these, appointment the manufacturer's website and download them.
Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mighty Mouse
If you accept an Apple Wireless Keyboard and wireless Mighty Mouse, chase the start-up procedures independent in the adapted manuals.
Monitor
Use your Mac mini's DVI video out anchorage to affix a monitor. If you accept a VGA monitor, affix it to the Mac mini with the supplied DVI to VGA adaptor.
Please note; your Mac mini supports agenda resolutions up to 1,920 x 1,200 pixels. This agency you can attach a 20 inch Apple Cinema Affectation or a 23 inch Apple Cinema HD Display.
Internet or network
Connect your Mac mini to the Internet or a arrangement wirelessly or by application a cable.
Wireless. Your Mac mini has congenital AirPort Extreme wireless technology. For added details, go to Menu Bar; baddest Help>Mac Help; and bang Library>AirPort Help.
Cable. Simply bung one end of an Ethernet cable into your Mac mini, and the added into a cable modem, DSL modem, or network.
Switching on
Power button
To alpha your Mac mini, columnist the ability button amid on the back.
Setup Assistant
When you aboriginal use your Mac mini, Setup Assistant appears. This enables you to authorize your
user account
Internet access
email details
If you already own a Mac, you can use Setup Assistant to alteration software and files to your Mac mini. If you adopt to delay afore you alteration information, use Migration Assistant at a after date.
Baddest the Applications folder
Open Utilities
Double-click Migration Assistant
Customising
To change the blueprint of Desktop - the aboriginal awning that appears if you've accomplished with Setup Assistant - go to the Menu Bar and baddest Apple>System Preferences. For added data on what you can do to customise your Mac mini, baddest Mac Help and seek for "System preferences".
Sleep approach and shutting down
Sleep mode
If you intend to be abroad from your Mac mini for just a abbreviate while, you can put it in beddy-bye approach rather than shut it down. Simply accept one of the afterward actions:
columnist and authority your Apple Remote's Play/Pause button for three seconds
baddest Apple>System Preferences; accept Energy Saver; set the timer
columnist the ability button
baddest Apple>Sleep on the Menu Bar
When you're accessible to deathwatch your Mac mini, columnist any of your Apple Remote's buttons or any key on your keyboard.
Shut down
Shut down your Mac mini by selecting Apple>Shut Down. To about-face it on already more, columnist the ability button.
Please note: do not move your Mac mini afore you've shut it down. You can accident the harder disc if you move the computer while the disc is spinning.
Basic OS X guide
Operating system
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard is your Mac mini's operating system. It runs your files, software and borderline devices, and is agnate in assumption to Windows.
Controls
Your controls are your mouse, keyboard and Apple Remote. If you're added acclimated to Windows, you'll anon ascertain that Mac OS X is easier to cross and faster.
Main features
Navigating your Mac mini's screens is easy. There are accessible windows, menus, and shortcuts, additional the afterward capital features:
Desktop
Dock
Finder
Menu bar
Desktop
Desktop is the awning area you commonly alpha anniversary time you about-face on your Mac mini. The awning displays your HD (hard drive) icons. Baddest an HD figure to appearance the files and applications it contains. If you bung a borderline accessory into your Mac mini, the adapted figure appears on Desktop.
Points to note:
Use Desktop to abundance your folders, images, files and added documents
Mac OS X gives anniversary user of your Mac mini a abstracted Desktop
Desktop lies abaft any of the applications you run
Dock
The icons at the basal of the awning are the Dock. Use the icons to admission your a lot of frequently acclimated applications, folders, files and windows.
When a window appears, agenda that it has three coloured buttons in the high left-hand corner.
Red closes the window
Yellow minimises the window to the Dock
Green maximises and minimises the window's size
Finder
The Dock figure on the far larboard is the Finder. You can use Finder to administer your folders, drives and applications.
Menu Bar
Mac OS X has just one Menu Bar. It appears on your awning as a band at the top.
Use the Menu Bar to
plan with a programme
appearance and change settings and software
abutting software
analysis your contempo work
log in
log out
put your Mac mini into beddy-bye mode
restart your Mac mini
about-face off
The Menu Bar changes to accord you the a lot of acceptable options for the software you're running.
Connectivity
For a account of affiliation ports, see Aboriginal accomplish - Basic features.
The FireWire 400 anchorage is ideal for abutting accelerated devices. These cover agenda video cameras and harder drives. The four USB 2.0 ports are for accessories such as your keyboard, mouse, iPod, printer, camera, and amateur controller. Your Mac mini will recognise abounding of these after the charge to run software because Apple pre-installs hundreds of borderline drivers at its branch to accomplish access as quick and simple as possible.
Use your audio in/optical agenda audio in anchorage for a microphone. Use the headphone out/optical agenda audio out anchorage for a brace of headphones or speakers. You can aswell use either anchorage for your agenda audio accessories as appropriate.