{"id":342,"date":"2006-08-02T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/opening-up-mac-mini-easy-when-you-know.htm"},"modified":"2014-11-08T19:37:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T19:37:52","slug":"opening-up-mac-mini-easy-when-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/opening-up-mac-mini-easy-when-you-know.htm","title":{"rendered":"Opening up the Mac Mini – easy when you know how"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woohoo! 2GB RAM in my Mac for less than half the amount that Apple would have charged me<\/a> (does anybody want to buy 2x256MB 667MHz DDR2 SODIMMs that have been used for just one month?).<\/p>\n

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Ordinarily, I’d say that upgrading the RAM in a PC is no big deal, but Mac Minis don’t have any screws to open the case; and unlike many notebook PCs, it not a case of popping open a small panel either.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the instructional videos at the OtherWorldComputing Tech Center<\/a> include a hardware upgrade tutorial for the Intel Mac Mini<\/a> which showed exactly how to do it (thanks guys – if you sold memory in the UK I would have bought it from you).<\/p>\n

So, armed with a Stanley<\/a> DynaGrip 50mm filling knife that I picked from B&Q<\/a> on the way home and an old plastic visitors pass (from Microsoft of all places!), I gained access to the inside of my Mac and swapped out the standard 256MB SODIMMs for two new 1GB modules from