Original URL: http://www.reghardware.com/2009/03/06/owc_mac_mini_upgrades/
Fanboi co. punts half-price Mac mini memory
More putty knife fun
Mac-centric parts supplier Other World Computing (OWC [1]) has begun offering memory upgrades for Apple's new Mac mini [2] at less than half of Apple's build-to-order price.
Apple's memory-upgrade prices border on the extortionate. Apple charges $150 for the two 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAMs needed to bump the Mac mini up to 4GB. OWC charges [3] $64.99 (£46).
Never pay Apple prices for RAM
All you need is a putty knife and a Phillips screwdriver to break into [4] your new Mac mini and cut your RAM costs in half.
And if you're interested in upgrading your Mac mini's existing hard drive to a 500GB model, removing its optical drive, replacing it with a second 500GB drive, and RAIDing the two drives up, iFixit can show you how [5], and OWC can help you out with a pair of 500GB 2.5-inch hard drives [6] for between $109.99 (Hitachi [7]) and $119.99 (Seagate [8] and Samsung [9]).
Or you could just buy iFixit's full upgrade kit [10], complete with drive, cables, and tools, for the low, low price of $249.99.
And as you might guess, that's an upgrade not on Apple's build-to-order list. ®
Links
- http://eshop.macsales.com/
- http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
- http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_Mac_mini/DDR3
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/03/06/mac_mini_teardown/
- http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Mac-mini-A1283-Terabyte-Drive/660/1
- http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/
- http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0A57915/
- http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST9500325AS/
- http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Samsung/HM500LI/
- http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/Mac-mini-1-TB-Upgrade-Kit/IF107-070