FranL

Q: If I purchase the airport extreme with the mac mini, will they both attach to my iMac?, If I purchase the airport extreme with the mac mini, will they both attach to my iMac?

I currently have an iMac mountain lion. If I purchase the airport extreme with a mac mini, will they both work with my mountain lion, and would the airport extreme be the best purchase for it?

iMac mountain lion, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on Apr 22, 2013 11:14 AM

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  • by Camelot,Helpful

    Camelot Camelot Apr 24, 2013 11:11 PM in response to FranL
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    Apr 24, 2013 11:11 PM in response to FranL

    Your question is a little vague...

     

    In what way do you want/expect your Mac Mini to 'work' with your Mountain Lion-based iMac?

    If you're asking if you can hook them altogether and each machine see the others on the network, sure.

    Both the iMac and the Mini will be able to share the connection through the Airport Extreme.

     

    What more are you hoping for?

  • by FranL,

     FranL FranL Apr 26, 2013 12:55 PM in response to Camelot
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    Apr 26, 2013 12:55 PM in response to Camelot

    I am looking to double the memory on my iMac and according to what I read about the mac mini, if I plug it into my iMac will I have the 8 GBs the mac mini has, or will my computer upgrade to 12 GBs?

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    Camelot Camelot Apr 27, 2013 6:11 PM in response to FranL
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    Apr 27, 2013 6:11 PM in response to FranL

    If you buy the Mac Mini and connect it to your network, your iMac will have exactly the same configuration it always had. It's completely unrelated to whatever other devices are on the network.

     

    Memory isn't (and can't) be shared across devices, so no amount of memory in the Mac Mini (or any other machine) is going to make a difference.

     

    Some resources can be shared - for example, you can setup file sharing on the Mac Mini so that the iMac can access disks attached to the server, but it doesn't work that way with RAM.