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1. HOW TO OPEN A MAC MINI 2006 UPGRADE
2. HOW TO OPEN A MAC MINI 2006 BLUETOOTH

And with a $19 DVI to Video Adapter, you can connect the Mac mini to most modern TVs using S-video or composite video. Mac OS X 10.4 and later includes support for remapping the Windows alt and option keys to option and cmd.Īpple offered several Build To Order options, such as 100 and 120 GB hard drives Mighty Mouse and a keyboard, or a wireless mouse and keyboard.

Apple says buyers can plug in their favorite USB keyboard and mouse – or buy Apple’s offerings. The Mac mini doesn’t include a keyboard or mouse. On the rear, just enough ports to do everything important. On the front, there’s just a slot-loading optical drive and a power light.

The tiny Mac mini (6.5″ square, 2″ high, 2.9 lb.) has a minimalist design. The Intel-based mini has four USB 2.0 ports and no internal modem. The Intel-based Mac mini looks just like the G4-based one from the front, but the rear panel is different. The Intel GMA950 graphics processor uses 80 MB of system memory for the display, so increasing memory beyond 512 MB is a good idea. The 2006 Mac mini was Apple’s first computer to use Intel graphics and the first Mac in a long, long time to use “vampire video” (that’s where the video bites into system memory). Apple claimed this model was “up to four times faster” than the old G4 Mac mini. The Core Duo Mac mini has a 1.66 GHz CPU, an 80 GB hard drive, and a dual-layer SuperDrive. Their test results show that in general there is more benefit from having more RAM – even mismatched – than there is from having less RAM that is matched.įront Row with Bonjour allows users to share music, photos, and video over a local network, and the Mac mini can be connected to a television set, making it more of a digital hub than ever.

HOW TO OPEN A MAC MINI 2006 UPGRADE

There is one bank with two memory sockets, so to upgrade RAM, you have to remove the 256 MB modules that came with the computer.Īpple says that memory upgrades should always be done in matched pairs, but Other World Computing has discovered that you can use “mismatched” memory in the Mac mini (and some other Intel-based Macs where Apple specifies that upgrades should only be done with matched pairs). The Mac mini now supports two memory modules for up to 2 GB of RAM. The new Mini has a 667 MHz memory bus, four times as fast as on the G4 Mini. In addition to this 1.66 GHz Core Duo model, Apple also sold an entry-level Mac mini with a 1.5 GHz Core Solo CPU, the only Mac ever to use that processor.

HOW TO OPEN A MAC MINI 2006 BLUETOOTH

Both Early 2006 versions of the Intel-based Mini include AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0, Apple’s remote control, gigabit ethernet, and Front Row with Bonjour. The Mac mini was the third Mac to make the switch to Intel CPUs.