Mac Mini Boot From Usb Bluetooth Keyboard

I have a 2019 Mac Mini that always had weak bluetooth reception for my mouse & keyboard. I bought is as "refurbished" and this is probably why someone returned it in the first place. Anyway, to get to the point, I ordered 4 solutions from Amazon and this Mini USB adaptor was the only device that fixed my problem. I'm using that same keyboard & mouse to type this review. Even though there wer no instructions on the device, I did plug it in, turn off the Bluetooth reception in the Mac Settings, used a wired mouse to turn Bluetooth back on again and it has worked perfectly for the past 3 weeks. My frustration has ended!!! Thanks StarTech!

When I bought the 2018 Apple Mac mini, my Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad became unreliable to unusable unless plugged into the computer, consuming two ports. After a lot of isolating and testing, I determined the problem was my old USB-3 multipart hub. Replacing that with the Sabrent 10-port USB-3 hub has completely eliminated the problem.

Upgraded to the new Mac mini M2 since my old Mac mini would take over 5 minutes to boot up to the Finder.

For use with a mac mini on the usb port.. very accurate ..

Got this keyboard along with the Mac mini and I couldn’t be happier.

I edit Broadcast TV shows and I have a dual boot MAC Pro so I can run both Final Cut Studio and Media Composer. I'm tired of having to swap keyboards when I need to change edit systems. The Keyboard cover solves that issue and had the added bonus of protecting the keyboard from my mishaps with coffee during long edit sessions. So I now get by with one keyboard that I can't fry with my Starbucks. It's a win-win situation. You gotta love that!

Working the way I expected! I'm using it as a boot up SSD on my Mac Mini! It's worth it at the price! I will get another soon and use it as my Time Machine on my Mac Mini!

2018 Mac mini I7 16GB ram & 512 SSD 2014 Mac mini took 125 seconds from boot to log in.  2018 is 25 seconds. 2014 Mac mini took long time to open Excel. Photoshop or Premiere.  The 2018 takes about 2 seconds. I couldnt be more pleased

My mid-2010 Mac Pro is aging. That, and my ext. backup drives, only have FW800 and USB2. So, I bought this PCIe card and two USB-C external drives to backup all my stuff and futureproof me. Installing this card was an absolute breeze. (There's a great YouTube how-to.) Then, I backed up to one of my new USB-C drives and it was smooth and seamless. I'm very happy! Something I learned though, that is NOT the fault of the card, is that my Mac's ROM only recognizes a USB-C PCIe card after boot up, so you can't boot, say, a clone of your internal drive with it. That may be important to know for some people. Also, I thought I might see much faster transfer speeds, but the speeds were just a little faster than FW800. Could be because my new USB-C drives are only 540rpm, I'm not sure. So maybe don't expect dazzling speed improvements. I highly recommend this card.

Both mouse & keyboard connected quickly and without effort to the Mac mini.