I can answer the last 2 questions.
It is possible to upgrade the ram and the hdd; they are both laptop
components. The harddrive is a 5400 rpm sata laptop harddrive.
how to get inside?
depends what mac mini you have. If you have the 2007-2009 mac mini (or a
power pc mac mini), not one of the aluminium ones, you must use one of
those long flat knives, I forget what they're called. Turn the mac
up-side-down, and press the nice in the crack between the metal outside
and the plastic base. Push up gently, and apply a little more force if
needed, untill the metal pops out. You will hear pops and clicks, this
is normal.
once all sides are done, lift the mac mini out of the top.
teh components you want to upgrade are right at the bottom. There are
some spring-loaded arials for the airport and bluethooth, find and
remove them by pushing the 2 clips (be very, very gentle).
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then, in each corner of the cd drive is a screw, remove all 4 (the
bottom right is a little longer)
lift the cd drive assembley out, and unplug it. there's teh harddrive in
the cage underneath that. and near that is the ram.
If you have one of the latest mac minis, the unibody aluminium one, turn
the mac up-side-down and feel for the small indentations in the bottom.
Put your fingers into them, and twist to the left. the bottom will turn.
Then, life it off and...
hth!
Ash
On 29/03/2011 00:26, Gail the U. S. Male wrote:
Hi List. I just joined over the weekend. Thanks to Mike Arrigo's excellent
podcasts, I'm trying, and switching to the mac, once I'm a bit more
comfortable with it. I have a mac mini running Leopard.I've been a windows
user since 1998, but it's kind of fun learning the mac and voice over. Now
for my questions.
1. I use Magic Jack on my windows machine, and am wondering if it will work
on the mac, not running windows, or is there a good VOIP solution for the
mac?
2. I'd love to upgrade both my RAM and my hard drive. Is the Hard drive a
laptop drive?
3. Also, has anyone opened up a Mac Mini, and if so, could you write me off
list, and tell me how it opens?
Thanks for any help anyone can give me, and I'm sure I'll be coming back
with lots of questions, as I go forward on this journey.
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