Here are a few links that I used, and costs incurred for resurrecting the old Mac mini. Latest EFI version. iFixit Guides for the A1283 Mac mini. Creating a bootable macOS installer. Using VMware Fusion Player to create an El Capitan installer on a newer version of macOS. How to get older versions of macOS.… Continue reading Resources and costs for resurrecting the old Mac mini
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Resurrecting an old Mac mini
[Edit, I’ve now added another post linking to the web pages I used to do this, and the costs for the memory and drives.] Sitting in a cubby-hole of my desk has been an old Mac mini that was my daily driver from when I bought it in 2009 until, well, quite a bit of… Continue reading Resurrecting an old Mac mini
iPhone 12 Pro
This is a blog post that I started writing two months ago on October 24th, I then stopped because there were so many other “new iPhone” blogs around I couldn’t see the point, but with nothing else to do over Christmas, I thought I’d polish it off. It is here. An hour before DHL were… Continue reading iPhone 12 Pro
What’s going on with iPad apps?
Yesterday I received an email from American Express to say they were discontinuing their iPad app and recommending I migrate to the iPhone app. I don’t have an iPhone, and using the iPhone app on the iPad is not a great use of screen real estate, nor does it work in landscape mode, whereas the… Continue reading What’s going on with iPad apps?