Kudos to NewerTech for making a simple device that makes a world of a difference. Once again I am very satisfied with another item sold by OWC. Moving windows around is no longer choppy. I can actually fill my monitor with this desktop something I couldn't do prior to having the adapter. Powered up and once the desktop appeared on my main mac, I could see the difference right away. Powered down the Mini, and plugged the adapter into the HDMI port. as an archive of the vintage software that ran arcade systems from yesteryear. For simplicity's sake, I'll define M.A.M.E. for short) and use the Mac mini as the engine. They back what they sell and they didn't fail this time. Rather than give my Mac mini away or recycle it, I decided to revamp and update my home built arcade cabinet running the multiple arcade machine emulator (M.A.M.E. They haven't steered me wrong yet with previous purchases. I've been a customer of OWC for several years. If i dragged a window, sometimes the screen would turn black as if the window had a shadow.Other times the windows would become fragmented for a few seconds before going back to normal.Īfter finding this here at OWC. However I would always have some lagging desktop problems from the mini's desktop. Using screen sharing, I have been able to access the mini. I have been running a monitorless mac mini for quite some time now. Verified Buyer Reviewer: Anonymous Location: NJ Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month Rating: 5/5 Simple and inexpensive! FebruI didn't know this existed until last week. VMac was an open source emulator for Mac OS on Windows, DOS, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Linux-Unix, and other platforms.Although vMac has been abandoned, Mini vMac. MUST BUY if you are using a headless Mini. It is still a base Mini, don't get me wrong, but it is definitely usable now and what I had intended for it all along. Now it runs in a decent screen size and is downright snappy. Before it was borderline unusable remotely, even on a wire, everything shut down, it didn't matter. The difference is night and day, even on a base model (1.4 i5, 4 GB RAM) Late 2014 Mini I'm mad I put up with it for so long. I figured, for this price, why the heck not give it a try? Jumping Jehoshaphat why did I not find this thing sooner? Then I was shopping for other stuff and saw this little adapter.

Remoting into it was always a nightmare to the point that I thought there was something wrong with it. Verified Buyer Reviewer: WGFinley Location: Elkhorn, WI Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month Rating: 5/5 Why The Heck Did I Not Know About This? JI've had a Mac Mini in my utility room acting as a Plex and file server for a couple of years.

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