Upgrading an Apple Mac mini
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Uploaded by jondoty on Mar 2, 2008
Time-lapse video installing 2 GB of memory and a 320 GB Western Digital Scorpio hard drive into an Apple 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.
Soundtrack: "Vapor Trail" by The Crystal Method
Jon Doty, 2008
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Dude cool i like how you binded it to monitor good video 5/5
3 years ago 6
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is front row incovenient when the mac mini is behind the monitor?
3 years ago 3
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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.
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lol ur using putty knifes like the mighty mighty adam B - (adiblasi reference)
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Too fast IDIOT
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No good on a GMA950 based computer
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and even more the n the mac book pro ;)
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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.
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like a regular imac....i dont get the mac mini...lol
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is someone doing there homework on the other side of the table?
Chrisapoo23 2 years ago 2
Haha, yep! That was my girlfriend doing her bible study homework :-)
jondoty 2 years ago
@jondoty Dude you a Christian ? .. Because If you , Cudos for following the right way :) ...
john4short 5 months ago
@john4short Yes, I am Catholic. Praise Jesus!
jondoty 4 months ago
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.
vonduutch 3 years ago
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!
jondoty 2 years ago