![]() ![]() Once the installation is finished, install the 10.6.8 v1.1 Combo Update onto the Mini’s boot drive via Target Disk Mode.ĥ. (For this, I used the 10.6.7 install disks that came with my early 2011 MacBook Pro.)Ĥ. Install Mac OS X 10.6.x onto the Mini’s boot drive via Target Disk Mode. Start the Mini in Target Disk Mode and attach it to a Mac that can itself run 10.6.8.ģ. With this driver package available, here’s how to install Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a 2011 Mac Mini.ġ. It installed the correct drivers to make Thunderbolt work, make the video work normally and installed the correct hardware profiles to allow the Mini’s hardware performance on Snow Leopard to be on-par with Lion. This installer package turned out to be the key. However, I hit pay dirt when I came across this Apple discussion forum thread because someone in the thread named newfoundglory had not only figured out the necessary driver support they had also been nice enough to package up the drivers into one installer package: the NFG Mac Mini 2011 installer The most common issues were lower performance, video that displayed a very pinkish hue on the screen and Thunderbolt not working. ![]() When I researched the subject, I found a lot of people online trying to run 10.6.8 on 2011 Mac Minis with varying degrees of success. The early 2011 MacBook Pros ran 10.6.8 because they were released before 10.7.0’s release in July 2011, so (theoretically) the 2011 Mac Minis could as well. I did have one lucky break, in that the early 2011 MacBook Pros and the 2011 Mac Minis are almost identical hardware-wise. In short, I needed a 2011 Mac Mini to run Mac OS X 10.6.8.Īfter a bit of research and head-scratching, I was able to get both what I wanted and what my wife wanted. Front Row is noticeably absent in 10.7.0 and higher. The 2011 Mac Minis were among the first Mac models that supported only 10.7.0 and higher. The first Mini models to come with Thunderbolt were the 2011 Mac Minis. “Fine, but it needs to be able to run Front Row.” To help future-proof it against future storage needs, I also wanted to get a Mini with Thunderbolt capability. So I pitched to my wife the idea of replacing the 2007 Mac Mini with a newer Mini and upgrading the storage with a 2 TB drive to hold media content and 4 TB backup drive connected via FireWire 800. This Mini also acted as my Tivo2Go server and DVD player, so I couldn’t just replace the Mini with an Apple TV and call it a day. I also noticed that it was struggling to play the latest HD movies from the iTunes Store. This was a 2007 Mac Mini with 2 GBs of RAM running 10.6.8, with a 1 TB drive that held media content and 2 TB backup drive connected via FireWire 400. A few months back, I saw that I was running out of space on my home theater Mac Mini. ![]()
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