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You Can't Upgrade the New Mac Mini's RAM

posted by LaminatorX on Monday October 20 2014, @07:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.

Fnord666 writes:

In a recent engadget article, Jon Fingas points out the following:

If you're planning to snag the new Mac mini and load it up with aftermarket memory, you may want to reconsider your strategy. Macminicolo owner Brian Stucki (among others) has discovered that the RAM in Apple's latest tiny desktop isn't upgradable, much as you'd expect with the company's laptops and the 21-inch iMac.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday October 20 2014, @03:44PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday October 20 2014, @03:44PM (#107852) Journal

    I would argue that for the most part we are already there as very few users are doing any kind of realtime encoding and for everything else even a 5 year old CPU is overkill. I know I used to be the guy that HAD to replace his system every other year (with a hardware upgrade on the off year) because the systems just couldn't keep up, but now? The Phenom II X6 I have at home can transcode video AND burn a DVD as well as play a game or watch a movie and all at the same time.

    when you look at what a user actually DOES with their PC, even their HTPC? Most aren't doing anything that can't be done on a 5 year old system. like I said realtime encoding is rare, thanks to the mess that is cablecards and all the other DRM crap and with sites like Hulu and Netflix having actual copies is becoming less and less of a concern. instead what I'm seeing is users ripping their DVD and CD collections and using their HTPCs as a combination mediatank/netbox/game console and for those uses? Slap mediaportal on any $300 Athlon quad system and its all gravy.

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