Friday, February 04, 2005
Apple - Mac mini
Apple - Mac mini
Just got my Mac mini, it looks a lot smaller in real life, very cute, almost cuter than the cube which I always thought was one of the cutest machines ever produced.
There's a site showing how to overclock the mini, not for the faint hearted as you need to solder/unsolder tiny surface mount resistors on the mainboard. However if you're daring it does look like upgrading a 1.25GHz version to 1.42GHz is viable (which gives a 14% speed increase), while upgrading 1.42GHz to 1.5GHz only gives a 6% increase so is it worth voiding the warranty, fiddling around etc. Upgrading to 1.58GHz seems to make the system unstable.
I now have to open mine up, and replace the onboard 256MB memory with a Crucial 1GB DIMM (considerably cheaper than the Apple upgrade, and in theory can resell the orig memory - of course if anything goes wrong I should have the original memory installed for Apple to do anything under warranty). Hopefully install it all tonight.
Just got my Mac mini, it looks a lot smaller in real life, very cute, almost cuter than the cube which I always thought was one of the cutest machines ever produced.
There's a site showing how to overclock the mini, not for the faint hearted as you need to solder/unsolder tiny surface mount resistors on the mainboard. However if you're daring it does look like upgrading a 1.25GHz version to 1.42GHz is viable (which gives a 14% speed increase), while upgrading 1.42GHz to 1.5GHz only gives a 6% increase so is it worth voiding the warranty, fiddling around etc. Upgrading to 1.58GHz seems to make the system unstable.
I now have to open mine up, and replace the onboard 256MB memory with a Crucial 1GB DIMM (considerably cheaper than the Apple upgrade, and in theory can resell the orig memory - of course if anything goes wrong I should have the original memory installed for Apple to do anything under warranty). Hopefully install it all tonight.
