http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/06/owc_mac_mini_upgrades/
Some good links to mod your new mac mini including getting RAM at half
what apple would charge you and pulling the optical for a second drive
to get a good fast RAID going! Good stuff.
We've been buying RAM [and drives and PCI cards] for less than half the
installed price that Apple charges since at least the mid '90s. Who
wants a RAID? We don't use RAIDs. They've been obsolete for years. Why
pull the optical drive? There are external drives with the same
footprint as a Mini, and other metal, no-fan enclosures that can take
bigger faster drives without extra noise. Won't adding another drive in
a plastic box make it too hot without adding a bigger fan [and more noise]?
Cavan will be ordering his extra 2GB RAM for $30-35 depending on the
price of the day plus shipping at DMS, OtherWorld and Crucial, the same
places we've been checking for RAM at least since we got a bondi iMac,
or maybe it was the 7600. No news that we didn't know from Rik here
either. Besides, build-to-order means they install it for you--that's
what you pay the big bucks for: convenience.
The author is kidding, right? As a long-time Mac user and editor of a
Mac magazine, writing in the Register, that's the stupidest column Rik
Myslewski's written, unless he's kidding. No wonder MacAddict faded away
with an editor like that.
Betty
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