[Cube] Mac mini take apart clues

[Snow White]

Yes, but then you would still need the 3200 DDR 400mhz RAM as the imacs 
are very short in the RAM department as well.  The real problem is that 
we are used to PC 100 / 133 RAM at great prices and now these take a 
new chip that the price has not dropped much on.

> For all that it would take to bring it up to fighting trim, one could 
> almost buy the G5 iMac.  --Steve

These 3200 chips cost some hefty dough, but wait 3 years and let the 
Windows world catch up in the RAM dept a bit and the market may get 
some economies of scale for the price drops we want to see.

This little mini is cool but a couple years behind the times - G5 s 
kick the pants off this, but for general use or small servers the G4 is 
excellent and you just cannot beat the price.  This, IMOP, all stems 
from the itunes/ipod/music store combination that is hauling Windows 
users to the Mac - happily instead of kicking and screaming.  Microsoft 
will really need to do something spectacular to keep their majority 
market-share intact.  It only takes a few years with the right 
competition to lose it.

jj

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> Ah, so!  And one visible DIMM slot.  For all that it would take to 
> bring it up to fighting trim, one could almost buy the G5 iMac.  
> --Steve
>
> At 1:38 PM -0500 1/12/05, Tom Davis wrote:
>> I'll note that the take apart for the Mac mini is likely to be much 
>> like that of the iPod - pry it apart.
>>
>> The last photo on http://www.apple.com/macmini/design.html 
>> (http://images.apple.com/macmini/images/designinsides20050111.jpg) 
>> shows the interior and the white clips all around the base. I'll 
>> guess that to open up the Mac mini, you'll have to use some pry tool 
>> around the bottom rim to release the clips and separate the top 
>> cover.