Hi Gail, Ashley's response regarding the older Mac Mini should work for you as far as opening it up. I think the tool she was referring to is a putty knife. Also, there are lots of websites that list the compatible RAM and hard drives. My personal favorite is Other World Computing at www.macsales.com. On that site, select the link labeled "Memory, RAM, SD." Then select Mac Mini and then Mac Mini 2007 - 2008. There you will find more specs and options for RAM and hard drive upgrades. A quick look shows that model can physically accept up to 4 GB RAM but is limited to addressing up to 3 GB of that RAM.
HTH, Bryan On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Gail the U. S. Male wrote: > Hi, > It's a Macmini2,1 > 1.83 GHZ intel dual core processor, running 1 GB of ddr2 SDRam consisting of > two 512 MB ram sticks bus speed 667 MHZ, and an 80 GB serial AD * which I'm > assuming is what I know as a sataHard drive version 10.5.8. I'm planning > to upgrade to Snow leopard, once I get these other upgrades done. Possibly > sooner! It has a rubber material on the bottom, if that helps any. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Jones > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:33 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Introducing myself, and a couple of questions > > Hi Gail, > > Welcome to the List! Some Mac Minis are harder than others to upgrade. Can > you tell us what model of Mini you have, the processor, RAM and hard drive > size / interface? You can find all of this info in the System Profiler > application found in your Applications / Utilities folder. Also tell us what > exact version of OSX you are running. You can find this by choosing the > Apple menu and selecting "About this Mac." > > Cheers, > Bryan > > On Mar 28, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Gail the U. S. Male wrote: >> 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? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
