New User to Mac Mini - upgrades

I am about to purchase a Mac Mini from an acquitence whom I trust. He has only bought this a few months ago, and is upgrading his system.
The one he has is the smallest of the models and I am wondering if I would like to upgrade it, is it possible? Also, if not suggested, can someone give me layman terms on what it would be capable of as far as storage of music or pictures, and how fast it would be? Sorry, I am being very generic in questions, I just don't know too much about hardware. I appreciate the feedback.
Thank you.

Well, those are better specs than my Mac mini, which is a couple of years older. You can get by on 2GB of memory, but you may experience faster performance with more, particularly if you have several applications open simultaneously. The hard drive is not super large, but it should also be fine unless you are going to store a ton of videos and/or big graphics files.
You can upgrade the memory and the hard drive - those components are not terribly costly, and if you are slightly handy, you can do the job yourself. You have to pry the two halves of the Mini to get inside, but once you are in, it is an easy matter to replace RAM (up to 8 GB) or the hard drive (which, by the way, is the smaller 2.5" size used in most laptops. Here are some how-to videos: http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/macmini2009/

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