Share one screen and Bluetooth peripherals between two Mac Minis
G'day :)
My daughter has a Mac Mini (2005), with an LG screen (same age) and current Bluetooth Magic Mouse and Apple keyboard. She also uses a USB graphics tablet. This older Mini runs 10.6.
Since she wants to start editing video with Final Cut Pro, I have just bought her a current Mac Mini (10.7: listed below this question). She still needs to use the older Mini, because she has an old version of Photoshop (CS2, which apparently won't run on Lion), and because she wants to go on using its CD/DVD drive. The new Mini doesn't have one,
Both machines will be directly connected to our LAN via a hub (gigabit Ethernet).
How would you recommend she use her peripherals with both machines, without having to unplug-replug-unpair-repair?
I gather two options are:
1. Screen sharing: is it fast enough to play movie DVDs from the old Mini to the new one, or to edit video from the new one to the old one?
2. Create a 10.6 partition on the new Mini and buy a CD/DVD player: this is more expensive but concentrates all the resources in the new Mini.
I would appreciate your advice. :)
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Mid 2011, 2.7GHz, 16GB/750GB