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Not an easy task at all. Apple designed this thing to discourage someone who wants to upgrade it.
It seems complicated, but I could probably do it in 15 minutes if asked to do it again. Maybe less if it was a timed race 🙂 It’s actually pretty straightforward.
9to5Mac I broke my PS4 trying to clean the fan. True story.
Well, the idea is you can, most modern Macs have soldered ram.
+Kino Zomby x2
Amazing how you can easily save 300$. Thank you for the video
Who got double notifications for this video?
5:40 Woahhhh strange. It’s just a surface mounted connector. You can even pull straight up on the cables near the connector and it will pop straight out—or at least it should. Strange yours was so difficult. It’s a piece of cake! Also, for those struggling to remove the power connector (5:17), it’s a lot easier to remove it once you’ve slid the motherboard tray out a little bit (at 6:43). Makes it so you don’t have to reach your fingers underneath the case.
I know?! it’s nuts! Was I doing something wrong? I literally tried removing this for 30 mins (pulling up to remove it from socket) and it would not budge. And just got frustrated and pulled the pins. Everything else was cake!
Snazzy Labs ehh shows wireless sdd or hdd.
shaky hands.
Dat caffeine.
9to5Mac you must have had ten cups, you look so damn nervous.
Simple enough, but not NEARLY as simple as it was too add RAM to my late 2012 Mac Mini.
Removing that one cable by prying up is one of the easiest things (coming from a repair technician). Removing the leads was a pretty bad idea, but it worked, but I wouldn’t recommend anyone do this.
Did mine this week but I never fucked up the cable doing it!!!! Jesus. Advising folks to shear wires in a brand new mac is asking to void your warranty!!!!
iJeffxit
Is there any reason why Apple doesn’t have upgradable RAM and internal storage besides making you spend more money?
Soldering the storage allows them to more easily run it at super fast speeds — faster than most any SSD you could buy third party.
Connor Griffin Music somebody who actually understands this! I hate when people complain about that but don’t mention that not only is apples flash storage some of the fastest in the market but can also be hardware encrypted on the fly thanks to the t1 and new t2 chips. As for ram I’m fine with it being solderd in the MacBook Pro because the thinness and lightness is a huge plus for me, but glad we can do this on the mini.
Why make it so hard Apple?
Because 600$ for 32G ram!!!!!?
Strange you didn’t suggest people just get the cheaper ifixit essentials toolkit which includes everything needed to do this upgrade and is cheaper…
My old Mac mini had the Ram connectors fully exposed. Too bad it died…
It would be cool for the indicator light to be a glowing Apple logo on the top.
I’m guessing this is the first time you did a memory upgrade. Lol
I just can’t justify $800 for i3 8g ram computer…. this was meant to be cheapest way to use Mac OS.. will wait $500
Kevin Cho the i3 8th gen is quad cores processor which run pretty good scores 4900/24000 on Geekbench 4, also you get 4 thunderbolt-3 (equals to thunderbolt-3 port on imac pro) that allow you to connect 5k monitor, eGPU. What else do you want?
The internals of Apple products look so nice. They have a nice color scheme. The internals of my Lenovo laptop is ugly blue and greens. Apple products are a nice black with grey and some bronze. If they made a clear iPhone or Mac mini, it would still look better than PCs
Instead of adding ram and save money I don’t even buy one and i save money
I love apple products but the price gauging, it will make you hate corporations!
Has anybody confirmed if this voids your warranty Or not, even though the Apple said: “user upgradable”? Thanks for the great videos as always.
For crying out loud…. I’ve come to realize that watching YouTube videos of this kind is infuriating and pain-stacking for that matter, rather than insightful.
What adds insult to injury, is to hear you guys voicing over the darn thing with gentle voices that project happy – shiny feelings and attitudes as if all this torturing crap inflicted by Apple’s abject stance, were normal.
When otherwise, I would expect you to start or end the video by just stating this: “…but, regardless today’s video we (9to5Mac) feel compelled to call out Apple for dishing out so ridiculously user-unfriendly and ridiculously priced products…”.
I have asked you once and I shall ask you again: dare you?
My bet is you don’t.
Meh…
George from Hellas.