Topic: SETTING UP THE NEW MAC MINI AND MONITOR (Read 833 times)

bk · « **on:** August 07, 2025, 12:21:07 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a setup, and now it is time for you to post until the setup cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 07, 2025, 12:21:33 AM »

And the word of the day is: HOORAY!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2025, 12:29:57 AM »

It needed to do an update - don't know why but it's started and restarted several times and now it's just a black screen, which is said might last a few minutes.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2025, 12:30:44 AM »

I'll take a shower and hopefully it will be back up when I'm done.

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2025, 12:55:49 AM »

All back up now

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** August 07, 2025, 01:01:54 AM »

Posting from the new computer - this thing is FAST.

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2025, 01:02:47 AM »

Word is working and so is Music. Whew!. So, we just have to set up Sirir and Apple AI and that should do it.

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:35:11 AM »

I am completely smitten with this here new Mac Mini and Apple monitor. I may even buy some apples.

bk · « **Reply #8 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:35:49 AM »

The speed of this thing is absolutely astonishing. I think I'm still going to set up my good speakers, just because I'm used to them.

bk · « **Reply #9 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:36:04 AM »

The table is clean and spacious now.

bk · « **Reply #10 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:36:18 AM »

Smitten, I tell you.

bk · « **Reply #11 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:37:04 AM »

I thought Microsoft Office would be a chore to set up - I literally opened a document and it told me to use touch ID to enable it for this computer. I did and voila.

bk · « **Reply #12 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:39:51 AM »

Because of the problems elmore had with his Music on the new computer and because there were people who had the same thing happen, I was petrified of that - but it all came over perfectly - all the playlists, everything. I now know how to get rid of the weird second user thing, but I'd rather have the back house fellow here to make sure we do it properly - although it's really just the click of a button. And then we have a choice to make on the drive where the hourly and daily backups go. I think I know what the choice is, but again I want the back house fellow here when I do it.

bk · « **Reply #13 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:41:23 AM »

There are a few little new quirky things I have to get used to. If you have a window open, like this here board, and you click on the desktop, it shoves the window all the way off the desktop - easy to get back, however, and instant.

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:42:43 AM »

I also love the new keyboard with black keys - so much easier for me. Same with the trackpad - and all the settings for both came over. I haven't had to do much of anything. And Chrome, which was horrible on the old computer, is so fast on this one. Smitten, I tell you.

bk · « **Reply #15 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:43:41 AM »

I didn't like the default Sequoia screen saver, so I found one I did like and it's lovely and it kind of shifts color depending on the time of day.

bk · « **Reply #16 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:46:11 AM »

Also nice is the number of ports - three thunderbolt ports on the Mac Mini and several USB ports on both the Mini and the monitor. Also, I got an adaptor cord for the CD player and it works perfectly, so now it will once again be easy to import CDs. Hoo and Ray. Got the printer icon in the dock - that was easy, too. You just Google this stuff and the answer is right there.

bk · « **Reply #17 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:46:35 AM »

Oh, and the camera a mics on this are really good.

bk · « **Reply #18 on:** August 07, 2025, 02:47:15 AM »

Well, the alarm is set for eight-thirty, so I suppose I should get some sleep.

George · « **Reply #19 on:** August 07, 2025, 03:34:14 AM »

Congrats, BK!

George · « **Reply #20 on:** August 07, 2025, 03:34:26 AM »

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George · « **Reply #21 on:** August 07, 2025, 03:35:11 AM »

I'd better get to sleep. I have to have labs drawn...again.

Freddie · « **Reply #22 on:** August 07, 2025, 03:42:18 AM »

Sending more lab test vibes, George.

Freddie · « **Reply #23 on:** August 07, 2025, 03:42:38 AM »

Congratulations, BK!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 07, 2025, 04:24:44 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 07, 2025, 04:25:44 AM »

BK, the new Mac sounds fantastic! Post a photo.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #26 on:** August 07, 2025, 04:29:56 AM »

I slept very well next to my boy Thatch. Stella has apparently abandoned Annabelle's mountain chalet, so Annabelle has returned to sleeping there. I had two performance dreams, one about Bernstein's Candide, which I always wanted to stage, and the other about being in a performance of The Beggar's Opera, in which I was playing Lockit and I could not remember my lines.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** August 07, 2025, 04:34:26 AM »

I have a lot of trash to cart to the basement, and then I have no idea what fresh hell the day will bring. I do need to call Access-a-Ride and schedule a trip to get my second shingles vaccine.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 07, 2025, 04:35:26 AM »

This morning, the paper edition was added to the Amazon page.
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elmore3003 · « **Reply #29 on:** August 07, 2025, 04:40:22 AM »

DR John G, thanks for the info on The Storyteller's Death. It sounds interesting.

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