Arnold, very good question. You probably your self don’t have the tools any more to work on Apple hardware. They wave solder the hardware right to the boards now so where you used to have memory slots and removable drives you now just have a PC board with everything hard wired. You can however take it to an Apple repair tech and they can handle replacing parts. You’ll probably pay more because they will have to replace a full board instead of just a component. More importantly, you’ll have to pay the Apple prices for upgrades and have to pay them up front instead of upgrade the machine later. Older Apple products do not have this restriction. For an example, I upgraded a 2011 Macbook Pro with 32 GB of RAM (something Apple won’t even offer) and a TB, faster SSD disk for about $450 total instead of over 2000 if Apple provided the parts. Apple will only sell you 16GB as well and the SSD they use is a bit slower.
It’s all about the Benjamins baby. (as the song says) One good thing though about the design, there’s a lot fewer things to break. A memory module or CPU will probably not fail. The most likely thing in the box to fail is the fan or the power supply. An apple tech or of course Apple themselves will service your machine just fine though. Also, in many cities, Boston being one, you can call a service and they come to you and do the work. My coworker broke his iPhone screen and a guy showed up in a company smart car and did a screen replacement for him right on the cafe table down stairs in our lobby. Great service, decent price point and convenient as all get out. They service Apple laptops and Desktops the same way. Good luck Closed just means you pay the Apple money and can’t provide your own parts. (easily) > On Jul 9, 2016, at 12:29 AM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > When you say closed unit, does that mean that one has to take it to the Apple > store for repairs, or is it closed even to them? I would hate to know I > would have to throw the whole thing away just because a memory chip went bad. > > Arnold Schmidt > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Fogarty" <si...@blinky-net.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 10:21 PM > Subject: RE: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini > > > Enewest mac minis, I don't believe so. > > They have now made the mac mini a closed unit, > I gave it a good go getting the base off one in a store near my home and > couldn't move it although the store wasn't happy I tried but it was pretty > closed up. > > It appears they now want to make it a no go with personal updates of devices, > as in you can't update the mac book pros like you use to be able to, or the > mac mini like you could before, > > Imac can still be done ' > The 27 inch has a plate at the back that you can open to take out the ram > And if your really keen, you can take the screan off the 21 or 27inch models > to remove or change the harddrive. > > I did this myself with a 21 inch 2007 imac and I wont do that again in a > hurry, they are an absolute pig of a system to get into. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Saqib Hussain > Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2016 12:03 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini > > Hi. Can you upgrade the RAM on the latest Mac Mini? I would be interested in > doing this but I think Apple prefer we didn’t go to a local retailer for RAM > upgrades. >> On 7 Jul 2016, at 18:20, Portia Scott <portia.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Also, if you know a good computer store, or you know how to yourself, >> you can upgrade the ram, I believe up to 16 GB. At least, mine can be >> upgraded that much, yours may be only 8 GB. Still, that is decent. >> >> Portia. >> >> On 7/7/16, Portia Scott <portia.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hey Arnold, >>> >>> That is the exact model I got, but it is from 2012. >>> >>> I honestly think it would be a great buy, as I've read the reviews on it. >>> >>> Portia. >>> >>> On 7/7/16, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: >>>> It is from 2011. It has an i5, I think 2.5 gig, processor, but only >>>> 4 gig of ram. It has a 500 gig hard drive, which is plenty for me. >>>> They want about $430 for this computer. 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