Best Uses For Old Mac Mini
According to the specification, this Mac Mini uses PC3-8500 DDR3 with 1066 MHz. This RAM is no longer in the PC building market. However, we might still able to obtained it via Mac upgrade company such as iFixit or OWC. Alternatively, we can obtained from 2nd hand market via eBay or craigslist.
Officially, Apple support 4GB of RAM for this Mac Mini, however, Mac OS X is able to support up to 8GB. We are not sure if the chipset is able to support 16GB of RAM if we are to use Linux. It is recommended to to upgrade to 8GB. However, if you have 16GB of DDR3 with 1066MHz lying around, you might want to try it and let us know if Linux could recognize 16GB RAM. Once you have the USB drive ready, insert it to your Mac Mini and start the machine.
Press “ option” (or “ Alt” for windows keyboard) when you hear a chimes from the Mac Mini. The key press must be either earlier or together with the chimes. The system will show a few drives which you can boot from. Ubuntu USB drive always produce 2 bootable drives. Select either one and the system will bring you to a boot page.
Select “ Try Ubuntu Without Installing”. Ubuntu should be able to boot up. If for some reason the USB drive could not boot up, please clear SMC and/or PRAM. If you are still not able to boot up, please check the iso image or change USB drive.
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Important: Please note that when we launch Chrome or VLC for the first time; the system will take a while to launch the app. Sometimes, we may need to wait for 1 min or more for the initial launch. There is nothing wrong with the installation. Please also note that when we launch Chrome, we must set password for the keyring in Linux. Chrome uses Linux keyring to store password.
Every time when we rebooted the system Chrome will ask for keyring password. However, it will only asked once when the system is booted. Video Driver Issue The current 18.04 LTS Ubuntu do not have video problem. By default, it uses open source nouveau video driver. It does not create any problem. However, if you use dmesg to look at the message, you will see some error relating to nouveau video driver. Quickbooks for mac reviews. You can choose to install Nvidia video driver.
It will reduce video related error in the dmesg. To install third party driver, got to Software & Update app. Select the tab Additional Drivers. Select ' Using Nvidia.' Driver and click Apply Changes. If you are happy with the video you can leave it as default. Update 29 July 2018 We have discovered that Nvidia driver does not work well with RealNVC in Ubuntu.
If you intended to install VNC server, we would suggest that you keep existing driver. Our testing with Linux Mint also shows that if Nvidia driver is installed, Linux Mint would not launch X windows session during boot up, if monitors are not detected. This creates problem if you intended to boot your box without monitor attached. If you intend to use the box with VNC server or to boot without monitor, use the original open source video driver, DO NOT install Nvidia driver.
Broadcom Wifi Issue This is the only persistent problem with some of the Ubuntu distribution. In fact, if you search the web there are many issue relating to Broadcom wifi driver, especially on older chipset. Our Mac Mini uses BCM4321 wifi chip. If you are happy with just wired network connection. You can just ignore this section and you are good to go. If you prefer to make the wifi work, You can choose to install the third party driver.