Simon, I think it’s even worse now. I believe in many cases they have replaced the screws with hex nuts and or special proprietary fasteners so you need to buy the $400 Apple tool to crack the box open. (or a $17 chinese knockoff tool like I bought heh)
Stuff is so packed inside the Apple laptops and iMac, you’re so right there. I had to have a girl with really small hands pop in the memory module because my fat fingers couldn’t make it work. > On Jul 8, 2016, at 10:21 PM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > 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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