Anyone have any good tutorials for cracking open the mini without doing to much damage. In the past I has seen the putty knife method but its been a while since I even thought about opening it up. Are there any better methods now?

I had for some unknow reason only put 1GB of RAM into my mini when I ordered it last year. Strange for me because I tend to max the RAM out just because it helps, expecially for someone like me who tends to multi-task way to much and ends up having way to many running apps.

So here it is, a nice fresh box from my favorite memory supplier, Crucial. It contains two 1GB sticks so my mini should be running smooth. The downfall is I will now have two 512mb sticks that I have no use for, anyone want to buy some RAM for a Mac mini real cheap?

I decided to get rid of the 2 desk setup in favor of the 1 large corner desk. So far I am much happier. It seems more “free” as I have more room with the underside of the desk open more like a table. Much easier to move from computer to computer which I seem to do a lot.

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I am starting to get things wrapped up here and getting the notebook and all my gadgets together to leave for the weekend. I am going down south to Boca Raton (where I used to live) to attend a family wedding. Should be nice to get away from home for a few days and see some family that I do not get to see often enough.

Just not looking forward to the 4 hour drive, also hoping that the hotel has some decent wi-fi so I can do some blogging. Gotta love needing that constant connection to the internet.

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So I recently started to use Parallels on my 1.83 GHz Intel Mac mini and have realized a few things. I have both Vista Home Premium and XP Home installed.

1. You will need way more than the minimum 512mb of RAM, I have 1GB and its not enough. Soon I will venture into opening up my Mac mini to make it 2GB of RAM. I am not sure why I ordered it with 1GB in the first place, oh well live and learn.
2. I no longer think of Windows as an OS. It now seems like just another application that I would run on my Mac.

Overall its pretty good for me, I need to run Windows for some of the work I do (login & programs) and really hate PC’s, so the option to use Parallels on my Mac mini is great. It also means one less computer that is constantly running in my house. Have you used Parallels and what are your thoughts?

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