{"id":332,"date":"2006-08-21T20:42:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T04:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/2006\/mac-mini-memory-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T20:42:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T04:42:01","slug":"mac-mini-memory-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Mac Mini Memory Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/65\/221715152_611dd987e5.jpg?v=0\" height=\"30%\" width=\"30%\" alt=\"\" \/>I&#8217;ve had the Mac Mini for a few months and continually complain about how slow it is. So, before it goes in the trash I thought I&#8217;d give a memory upgrade a try. The standard 512MB really isn&#8217;t much these days and I read that the video card takes almost half of that so the apps don&#8217;t stand much of a chance.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered 2GB of RAM off ebay for $160 and researched how to do the install. Its actually pretty easy if you follow the great instructions found at this <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/tech_center\/index.cfm?page=Video\/mini\/high.html\">link<\/a>. It is hard to get the case off, no doubt but a good putty knife will see to it just fine. Also, a tiny Philips head screwdriver is required and make sure its magnetic, getting the screws back in is a real pain if its not. <\/p>\n<p>Too early to say what kind of difference it has made but I think it will be obviously better. A couple of pictures on <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ukpylot\/sets\/72157594246608052\/\">my flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the Mac Mini for a few months and continually complain about how slow it is. So, before it goes in the trash I thought I&#8217;d give a memory upgrade a try. The standard 512MB really isn&#8217;t much these days and I read that the video card takes almost half of that so the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[55,131,132],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-general","tag-computing","tag-memory","tag-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}