Upgrading an Apple Mac mini

[airjus]

lol ur using putty knifes like the mighty mighty adam B - (adiblasi reference)

[buzzzIips]

Too fast IDIOT

[andyli916]

if you were going to upgrade the ram, you should've put 4GBs in and save yourself the work later on

[Atheismrulez]

@andyli916

The max. you can upgrade the RAM on this Mac mini is to 3GB. While the processor can address 4GB of RAM, the motherboard only allows for 3GB--trust me, I own the exact same machine and upgraded it.

[pacmanghostx]

That's pretty awesome how he had it mounted to the back of the monitor.

It gives the illusion of an All-in-One computer. :)

[demover7]

like a regular imac....i dont get the mac mini...lol

[pacmanghostx]

lol, same here...

The Mac mini is good for the casual user, but once you get into the more demanding tasks, the iMac is the way to go.

[demover7]

and even more the n the mac book pro ;)

[cjmillsnun]

No good on a GMA950 based computer

[Chrisapoo23]

is someone doing there homework on the other side of the table?

[jondoty]

Haha, yep! That was my girlfriend doing her bible study homework :-)

[john4short]

@jondoty Dude you a Christian ? .. Because If you , Cudos for following the right way :) ...

[jondoty]

@john4short Yes, I am Catholic. Praise Jesus!

[acessogratis]

my dvd drive is lost, the end!!! X(

[lakaiguy17]

does anyone know why i cant install leopard on my mac mini pleas help!!

[Blinkwing]

yeah, my father had the same prob.

The filesystem of the hd is corrupted, just format it for mac osx!

[vonduutch]

Did you copy your old hard drive onto the new one before you installed it? Do you know if you can boot directly from the OSX 10.5 disk as long as you have all your files backup up elsewhere? I've heard you can just insert the disk and when you power it on you hold the "C" button. Please let me know if you've heard any of this before.

[jondoty]

My new HDD was unformatted when I installed it.

I put my old hard drive in an external USB enclosure and plugged it in around 3:25. Then I held down the "C" button at 3:44 to boot from the OS X CD. Once booted via CD I used Disk Utilities to copy the contents of the old (external) drive to the new (internal) one. Finally I boot from the new HDD around 5:27. Finished!

[jcbrodt]

Very cool song...what is it? Nice vid by the way...

[kookking1997]

"Vapor Trail" by The Crystal Method

[jondoty]

And sadly YouTube just made me replace the song due to copyright violation. Sigh...

[linuxjetty]

Hey Thanks man,

1)

Please let me know what Mac Mini Processor Speed, memory, HD and OS before your upgrade?

2)

Can I upgrade following your way my Mac Mini 1.4Ghz with 256 MB memory, 80 gig HD and 10.3.9 OS?

I just bought it used with this config.

Thank you to videographer too, awsome picturization.

Best Regards

Looking forward to hear from you.

[jondoty]

1) Check the info on my video and you'll see all the specs for my Mac Mini: This mac is a Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz running OS X 10.5.2. It originally shipped with 1 GB RAM and an 80 GB HDD.

2) Yes, you can upgrade your memory and HDD. It sounds like you have the old G4 processor and motherboard that supports up to 1GB of RAM.

[slimy9]

Dude cool i like how you binded it to monitor good video 5/5

[frontier1701]

useless... you need verbal instruction to go with the video..... I dont bounce around like a teckno-geek

[YouTuber2006]

LOL

Come on man. Do the hustle.

[jondoty]

Sorry, I didn't plan on people using this as a guided upgrade tutorial. But I did create a how-to for people that would like to make their own Mac mini monitor mount:

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(YouTube doesn't allow URLs)

[redz220]

cool camera angle

[thehoaxbuster]

is front row incovenient when the mac mini is behind the monitor?

[jondoty]

Yes, it's harder to use front row. But I rarely use the remote control so it wasn't an issue for me. My iPhone can control iTunes via WiFi so there's no need to have line-of-sight to the IR port.

[friedrichsacher]

Nice idea to put the mac mini behind the monitor! cool vid

[thehoaxbuster]

but the front row remote cant go through the monitor.

[Bail77]

Perfect !

[mealdin123]

it wouden't be so hard to make it to a laptop

[ndsurfer]

Love the video!

I want also a Mac Mini

[davedoty]

Very cool perspective. You must have been careful not to move things too much as you were working.