I have an early Mac mini with a combo drive, 1Gig memory and 80Gig hard drive. Can I replace my memory chip with a 2Gig?
I know Apple doesn't like us to crack the case, but if I want to upgrade to mavericks, I need 2Gig memory. I have plenty of available space on my hard drive.
First if you have not already done so, check to see if your Mac Mini model meets the requirements...?
see > Apple - OS X Mavericks - Read the technical specifications.
Then for RAM, go to > Memory, Drives, Free Installation Guides for Apple Mac mini and select your model.
In addition to the OWC guides, go to > Mac Mini Repair - iFixit, again select your model and click on the RAM guide.
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I have a mac mini with an i7 dual core processor. It is perceptably slower than my macbook pro with a quad core i7. Does the mac mini server have the same hardware configuation as the regular mac mini with server software or is the hardware different (aside from the i7 quad core and dual hard drives)? I want a mini with a quad core i7...
Your assumption is correct. The server does however only
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graphics chip.
I have a 2011 Mini Server connected to a Thunderbolt display
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power it is pretty much equivelent to your Mini. For the most
part I find the Mini does outperfom my MBP. I heavily use
Parallels and Windows7 virtual machines, so the more cores
the better.
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If I use FireWire target disk mode to copy the entire hard drive to another external drive can I then erase the damaged hard drive, reinstall Lion with it's handy recovery function and copy everything back as it was?
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Just wanted some advice before I take the plunge...
Thanks,
Joejoefromthehill wrote:
If I use FireWire target disk mode to copy the entire hard drive to another external drive can I then erase the damaged hard drive, reinstall Lion with it's handy recovery function and copy everything back as it was?
Maybe. But you'd be better off to make a "bootable clone," via CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper, or the Restore tab of Disk Utility. Then you can start up from the clone (hold the Option key while starting and select it from the display you'll get after a few moments), and make sure everything's there (at least as well as on your internal HD).
I'd then strongly recommend also making a second backup, on a separate HD, "just in case" something goes wrong with the first one before you get this fixed. That doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
But . . . are you sure you have to erase the HD? If it's directory damage, you may be able to fix it. See #6 in Using Disk Utility, start with the yellow box there.
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Backup a dual boot iMac with OSX + Vista to Time capsule and USB hard drive
I have just bought a Time Capsule which is now working as my WiFi Network base station and backs up an iMac and a Macbook. The iMac has both OSX and Vista (using Boot Camp) and I was using a USB Hard Drive that has 2 partitions (HFS+ for the Mac; NTFS for Vista) to back up the iMac. Rather than leave this attached to the iMac just to back up the Vista partition I would like to move it to the Time Capsule's USB port and use it as NAS. The idea being that it becomes a NAS with one partition used to back up the Windows data when I run the iMac with Vista and the other partition to archive the Time Machine backups from both the iMac and Macbook. I tried to connect it as it was but got an error and reading the forum it seems that it won't work unless both partitions are HFS+ or FAT. If I reformat the NTFS partition to HFS+ will I be able to use the built in backup function of Vista to back up the Vista partition to the USB hard drive? I read somewhere else that Time Capsule takes care of the formatting for an external NAS drive and Windows will be able to read and write to it even though it's not NTFS. Any ideas comments appreciated.
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You also do not need to use the TC as an intermediary between your iMac and MBP.. just turn on sharing in the computer.. so you can directly copy files from one to the other.. Macs have public access directory preconfigured for each user account.
As far as mounting the TC..
In finder use Go, Connect to server.. and type.
AFP://TCname or TCipaddress
Where TCname is the actual name of the TC.. I strongly recommend you follow SMB network rules.. ie if your TC has a name like
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Shorten it to FredTC
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TCIPaddress is simply the standard IP.
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New Mac mini w/2.0 processor 1gig of ram getting REALLY HOT
o I just picked up this mini on Saturday, and it seems to be running at an idle at 58c ... is that normal for a mini? I know my imac runs around 35-38c...
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If I crank the fan speed up to 5501 RPM's, then at idle I can get 38c, and 67c under a load using SMC control..... Is this normal for a mini, to get this darned hot?Welcome to Apple Discussions!
I would reiterate what Doug has said - that unless your system has shut down unexpectedly (it goes into protective shutdown if it overheats) then you don't have an overheating problem and you have no cause for concern.
The best advice is to stop monitoring system parameters that are of relatively little merit to monitor and where the results you see are both poorly understood and also easy to misinterpret out of context! Laptop systems typically run rather hotter than Mac minis and have less internal air space, smaller fans, less ventilation slots and thus lesser heat-dissipation capabilities than Mac minis - yet people have been using these sort of systems for years without heat-related failures.
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I have a 2009 Mac mini and the wireless card has never worked, would I be able to cover it with my three year extended warranty?
matthewfromwhangarei wrote:
I have a 2009 Mac mini and the wireless card has never worked, would I be able to cover it with my three year extended warranty?
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Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
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I have a 2010 mac mini referbished and i dont see the Disk Utilitiy in the Utilities on the install disk. Is that because it is refurbished?
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I am trying to log onto a Mac Mini I haven't used in awhile and I forgot the password. I am trying to reset the password with my apple ID but the computer keeps saying the Apple ID and the password are incorrect whenever I know they are, as I am using the exact same ID right now.
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Select
▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
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