Can You Get An Ethernet Port For A 2012 Mac Mini

Featured stories • • • • In the accompanying video, I show you how to replace the fan on a six-year-old Mac mini. Why would I do that? Because, it's so much more meta than that. Read also: The last nearly perfect desktop from Apple Think about the 2012 Mac mini. It's the last.

You can open that bad boy up. You can replace memory, drives, and -- as I show you in the video -- even fix the fan. All my Mac minis have had SSD replacements over the past few years, so the only moving parts are their fans. One machine has been noisy for a while, so I bought a $14.75. Read also: The iMac Pro is impressive,, and saddled with a big, heavy screen that, while pretty, precludes flexibility. My 2012 Mac minis are six years old. Apple updated the Mac mini once more, in 2014, but: It's now a closed box.

Mar 8, 2016 - Don Smith asks a wonderful leading question on networking in OS X: I have an ethernet connection to my FiOS modem/router and it works.

You can't upgrade or fix most of what's inside. That makes me sad.

Apple said its. I (and most power users) can't wait another 18 months or more to get my job done.

Updating the Mac mini What if, instead, Apple updated the Mac mini? What would it need to do to make this thing perfect again? As it turns out, not much. Read also: First, it would need to go back to the 2012 maintainable design.

Let users upgrade memory. Let users swap out drives. Let users fix broken fans. We're not children who can't be trusted around gear.

We're pros who have work to do. Put in a modern, high-speed processor. Some on-board flash storage wouldn't hurt -- that's way faster than SSDs. It also wouldn't hurt to throw in a 10GB Ethernet port. It also wouldn't hurt to keep the existing HDMI port, the headphone jack, and the SD card slot.

The last change (I told you this was simple) is to put some Thunderbolt 3 ports on the back. Keep two USB 3, and add two Thunderbolt 3. That gives you the ability to and one of those.

Apple's missing the point Apple doesn't need to build some super-new, modular machine -- as if computers have never been modular -- or make us wait 10 dog years to get our jobs done. It is always so concerned with heat flow to keep its boxes super thin and quiet, but it's missing the point. The Mac mini works. Production houses have tens and hundreds of these things. Just put a decent fan in the thing, upgrade the processor, add Thunderbolt 3, and ship it.

Read also: Call it the Mac mini Pro (Apple capitalizes Mac and Pro, but not the 'mini' in either the Mac or the iPad). And make it in space gray. Because, why not? Price it under $2,000 -- because this smart, easy re-design is not that expensive to make. Now, we pros can get our work done without taking out a mortgage. I'd probably buy another four.

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This is for Windows 7, but should work for Windows 10 A quick search on the, I was able to find instructions on downloading the correct driver. I have condensed them here for quick reference: •. It will say that it's not supported, but the.inf file does include the requisite driver entries • Unzip the drivers to a temporary folder on your hard drive (preferably your Desktop so it's easy to find) • Connect the adaptor to the thunderbolt port • Reboot Windows Windows should automatically detect the adaptor now and install it. You may need to point the installer at the location where you unzipped the drivers.

If that doesn't work, you will need to do this through Device Manager • Go to Start > Control Panel > Hardware & Sound and open Device Manager • Click the name of your computer at the top of the device tree • Click Action at the top of the window and choose Add Legacy Hardware • Click Next • Select 'Install hardware that I manually select.' • Choose Network Adaptors • Choose 'Have Disk' • Browse to the location of the drivers you unzipped earlier. • Click the.inf file • Select Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet from the list of drivers available • OK and install You may need to reboot again with the adaptor plugged into the Thunderbolt port to finish the job Note: Again, these instructions and driver downloads are for Windows 7.