2011 MAC MINI WITH

2011 Mac Mini With

I also noticed that it was struggling to play the latest HD movies from the iTunes Store.If you have a one-time purchase of Office for Mac 2011, youвЂ™ll need a product key to activate. This was a 2007 Mac Mini with 2 GBs of RAM running 10.6.8, with a 1 TB drive that held media content and 2 TB backup drive connected via FireWire 400. This lifecycle typically lasts for 5 years from the date of the productвЂ™s initial release.A few months back, I saw that I was running out of space on my home theater Mac Mini. The suite provides new and improved tools that make it easy to create professional content, along with improvements in the speed and agility of Office 2011 you will notice from the moment you open the applications.Office for Mac 2011, like most Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide new features, bug fixes, security fixes, and so on. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 gives you a familiar work environment that is more intuitive than ever.

In the Activate Office wizard, enter your product key and click Activate.Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 is an electronic communication and personal information management application that can help you take control of your email. Tip: If the wizard isnвЂ™t open, start an Office application and click Activate Now. In the Get Started wizard, click Enter your purchased product key.

See below the jump for the details.I did have one lucky break, in that the early 2011 MacBook Pros and the 2011 Mac Minis are almost identical hardware-wise. In short, I needed a 2011 Mac Mini to run Mac OS X 10.6.8.After a bit of research and head-scratching, I was able to get both what I wanted and what my wife wanted. Front Row is noticeably absent in 10.7.0 and higher. The 2011 Mac Minis were among the first Mac models that supported only 10.7.0 and higher. The first Mini models to come with Thunderbolt were the 2011 Mac Minis.

Start the Mini in Target Disk Mode and attach it to a Mac that can itself run 10.6.8.3. It installed the correct drivers to make Thunderbolt work, make the video work normally and installed the correct hardware profiles to allow the MiniвЂ™s hardware performance on Snow Leopard to be on-par with Lion.With this driver package available, hereвЂ™s how to install Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a 2011 Mac Mini.1. However, I hit pay dirt when I came across this Apple discussion forum thread because someone in the thread named newfoundglory had not only figured out the necessary driver support they had also been nice enough to package up the drivers into one installer package: the NFG Mac Mini 2011 installerThis installer package turned out to be the key. The most common issues were lower performance, video that displayed a very pinkish hue on the screen and Thunderbolt not working.

Front Row was able to communicate with iTunes 11.x, so it looked like I was set until I attached an Apple USB SuperDrive and tried to play a movie DVD. Ran Software Update to get all available updates for 10.6.8.Following Software UpdateвЂ™s final run of updates, I started working with the Mini and everything looked like it was working, including the all-important Front Row. IвЂ™m not certain it was necessary, but it did not hurt.8. To be on the safe side, I reinstalled the 10.6.8 v1.1 Combo Update at this point and rebooted again.

Hopefully, this helps the next person who wants to get a similar setup going. Front Row accepted it and started playing the movie.ItвЂ™s now been a couple of days since getting all of this set up and so far, itвЂ™s been fairly trouble-free. What I was doing was updating DVDPlaybackвЂs definition of an acceptable DVD player by finding the word Internal and replacing it with External, by searching for (hex) 496E7465726E616C and replacing with (hex) 45787465726E616C.Once this part was complete, I restarted and put a movie into the DVD drive. Using information found here on MacOSXHints, I edited /System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A/DVDPlayback with the 0xED hex editor. All of the 2011 Macs that ran 10.6.8 were laptops that came with internal optical drives.What fixed it was some additional driver modification. This should have worked except for the fact that the 2011 Mini was never supposed to run 10.6.8 either.

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