I have a Mac mini which I bought for the vanishingly rare occasions when iPhone or iPad apps don’t have some functionality I need that a full-on bit of software has. I already had an Apple keyboard which I used with the iPad if I needed to do any big typing. I also have a trackpad which I prefer to a mouse.
Being cheap I decided to do without a monitor, the Apple ones are ridiculously expensive, so for the last 3-4 years I’ve used an ancient TV screen as an occasional monitor. It’s very low res, and 4:3 ratio, but it sort of works, although some windows don’t entirely fit and I sometimes have to go into the display settings and faff about.
Last week I saw that there is a class of thing called a portable monitor, so I bought one on Amazon for £125. It’s better than the TV screen but it has a very annoying habit of blanking for a second or so every few minutes, so I wouldn’t recommend it for someone who needs to spend any amount of time in front of it.
Another option, if there is already a PC or laptop in the vicinity, is to remote in and use the Mac mini as a headless server using VNC or some such.
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On 1 Oct 2024, at 22:57, mike wilson m.9.wilson@ntlworld.com wrote:
Thanks all, for help and suggestions. It looks like some serious bullet-biting is in my future.
On 01/10/2024 21:01 BST Doug Brewer doug@dougbrewerphoto.com wrote:
Not natively.
On 10/1/24 3:38 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 01.10.24 um 20:04 schrieb Doug Brewer:
Have you considered laptops?
Does Logic run under Windoze?
Ralf
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I have a Mac mini which I bought for the vanishingly rare occasions when iPhone or iPad apps don’t have some functionality I need that a full-on bit of software has. I already had an Apple keyboard which I used with the iPad if I needed to do any big typing. I also have a trackpad which I prefer to a mouse.
Being cheap I decided to do without a monitor, the Apple ones are ridiculously expensive, so for the last 3-4 years I’ve used an ancient TV screen as an occasional monitor. It’s very low res, and 4:3 ratio, but it sort of works, although some windows don’t entirely fit and I sometimes have to go into the display settings and faff about.
Last week I saw that there is a class of thing called a portable monitor, so I bought one on Amazon for £125. It’s better than the TV screen but it has a very annoying habit of blanking for a second or so every few minutes, so I wouldn’t recommend it for someone who needs to spend any amount of time in front of it.
Another option, if there is already a PC or laptop in the vicinity, is to remote in and use the Mac mini as a headless server using VNC or some such.
B
> On 1 Oct 2024, at 22:57, mike wilson <m.9.wilson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks all, for help and suggestions. It looks like some serious bullet-biting is in my future.
>
>> On 01/10/2024 21:01 BST Doug Brewer <doug@dougbrewerphoto.com> wrote:
>> Not natively.
>>> On 10/1/24 3:38 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
>>> Am 01.10.24 um 20:04 schrieb Doug Brewer:
>>>> Have you considered laptops?
>>> Does Logic run under Windoze?
>>> Ralf
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