The support article for Mac Mini (Late 2012) shows and details which ports can do what.
So you'd probably need to get a Thunderbolt adapter to use a second display, it seems.
Even apple's tech spec for Late 2012 Mac Mini states USB 3.0: More Less. Mac mini, macOS 10.14 Posted on Apr 19, 2019 10:17 PM. The Apple Mac mini 'Core i5' 2.5 (Late 2012/Aluminum Unibody) features a 22-nm 'Ivy Bridge' 2.5 GHz Intel 'Core i5' (3210M) processor with two independent processor 'cores' on a single chip, a 3 MB shared level 3 cache, 4 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-12800) memory, a 500 GB hard drive, and Intel HD Graphics 4000 which shares system memory.
See the listed items to connect to Thunderbolt port in the link you posted. I've the same
link bookmarked from more than a year ago..
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I have a Late 2012 Mac Mini i7, while only using one Apple Cinema (aluminum) display.
Another option would be also buy a Thunderbolt multiple port dock. Some allow many other
products, & duplicate ports. (Up to 12 items, from USB3.0, Thundebolt, etc) not cheap. A
few displays may allow daisy-chain; note MiniDisplay looks like a Thunderbolt port but may
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not act like one. The adapters may allow minidisplay to run from Thunderbolt. See support
article and then refer to Apple store page of display adapters.
OWC also has an external optical drive with several ports built-in (with extra HDD).
Good luck! 🙂
Feb 24, 2016 2:14 PM
So I have Mac mini late 2012
I used the thunder bolt to via adapter ( genuine apple product ). I had reset the Mac and updated everything and setup as a new Mac, exchanged the ram cards .
it worked fine for 3-4 days, and then the adapter stopped working .
Now every time I the Mac it just shows random lines many of them in the via display . It happened previously when I changed the RAM but the HDMI display seems to work fine .
The firmware update is not for Sierra and I have updated everything that there is to upgrade as a software .
The screen is being detected, meaning that the computer knows that it is plugged in but I get only a black screen on the VGA compatible monitor .
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Some one help please .
Brett favre.
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Here are system specs .
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Mac mini, macOS Sierra (10.12.4), null
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