On May 11, 2011, at 10:54 AM, t...@io.com wrote:
1) Does anyone know what the Wifi slot is?
It's proprietary. The kit is expensive and rare. The part you need is Apple part # M9870Z/A. It's 802.11g. I'd skip this and use a USB 2.0 802.11n adapter, any Broadcom USB adapter will work as "Airport" as long as the correct VID & PID are in the info.plist of the Broadcom plug kext of the IO80211Family.kext.
I'm half-heartedly looking for a way to get SCSI on the thing, so it can also run my household backup system as well.
Don't think this is going to happen unless you've got some serious hardware skills.
2) I opened it up last night. I thought that tiny hole on the lower right was a port for a manual eject pin to the optical drive, but it looks like there's an IR receiver behind it. Does the G4 Mini have an IR receiver? I researched this a while back and thought that only later Minis could use an IR remote.
Isn't the the Power-On LED?
4) Everything I've read says the maximum RAM is 1 GB. Anyone ever successfully install more RAM?
This is a good question? The G4 Mini requires "low density" RAM. I noticed that Kingston once made a 2GB non-ECC PC3200 DDR DIMM, but it was really rare and expensive, and I doubt it would work? I believe 1GB is the max for all practical purposes.
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