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Mac Power Users

465: The Mighty Mac mini

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Introduced as a low-cost way to switch to the Mac, the Mac mini can now be found working quietly as home and office servers, hosting files, media, backups and more.

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0:00.0

MacPowers episode 465, the Mighty Mac Mini.

0:04.7

Hello, David Sparks here, along with my friend Stephen Hackett. How you doing today, Stephen?

0:15.0

Hey David, I am good, glad to be back and we're going to get nerdy about some Mac stuff today.

0:20.0

Yeah, Mac Mini, the Apple release a new Mac Mini, we've got a lot to talk about it.

0:24.1

What you can do with it, I think a lot of people are wondering, you know,

0:26.7

where does this fit in my life or is there a place for it? Well, we're going to cover all of the options today.

0:31.7

And maybe a Mac Mini does fit in your life.

0:35.0

But before we do that a couple preliminary announcements.

0:38.0

Don't forget the Seattle Meetup for automators and frankly Mac Power Users and all the other relay folks that we're going to have on January 19th.

0:48.0

There still may be space for that but it's filling up very quickly and we'll put a link in the show notes.

0:53.0

Also don't forget we're doing a live Mac Power Users episode recording in Chicago in early March

1:00.6

and that is another one we're going to put the link in the show

1:03.4

notes but it's filling up quickly so please get in there if you're interested.

1:07.1

Yeah we love to see people I'm so bum that I'm not going to make it to Seattle I

1:11.8

thought about a last minute trip but it's not going to

1:14.3

pan out. But Chicago is going to be a whole lot of fun. We're excited to take the show on the road and

1:21.4

get out and meet some people. And you know I've heard there's something in

1:23.8

Chicago in the early spring called snow so we'll get to experience that that'll be

1:27.9

fun it's gonna be it's gonna be. Chicago will fake you out.

1:33.1

Coming from California, I look at the hotel window in Chicago

1:36.4

around this time of year, and it's like sunny,

1:39.2

and it looks nice.

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