Well I finally was brave enough to crack open the lid on the Mac mini. Let me tell you, it’s not as hard as I had anticipated. You do have to push pretty hard (firmly) with the putty knife but the lid actually comes off pretty easy. Then remove some screws from the inside corners and lift up the drive and other guts to reveal the RAM.

Pretty easy overall but not for the faint. It does require you to unscrew and move some inside parts and I can see how that would make some nervous. Not to mention having to jam that putty knife down the inside. But it was pretty easy and now I can run Parallels much better.

All that to run Windows better, pretty sad for a Mac user. I have found that XP runs much nicer than Vista. So although I have both installed I am not going to boot Vista anymore and use XP for my few Windows needs.