Upgrading the $20 Mac Mini - Running Unsupported Mac

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This Mac Mini i got it on Auction for about $20. I done this project because i want to turn this Mac Mini into a useful computer again and to show you, how you can done for a cheap. The CPU i got it from eBay, cost about $1.70 and the RAM i take out from my very old non-working laptop. I know isn't great computer but is enough for basic stuff or instead android box.
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@Jpk516 5 лет назад

I did this with my '06 Mini a few years ago and it's still very usable! It was a great way to breathe new air into my old Mac.

@adiabriganjarutama6144 5 лет назад

back in the day when everything still upgradeable and repairable lol

@powerlinkers 5 лет назад

Old time before Apple became greedy.

@GlistentaeWorldrunswithtech 4 года назад

the time when soldered components weren't that common...and mac mini was an intended desktop computer

@NoCommentsVideo 4 года назад

powerlinkers your right apple did become really greedy, and it’s honestly heartbreaking.

@user-yv2cz8oj1k 4 года назад

Yes but there must be more powerful versions than a core 2 duo, which was one of the worst processors I was ever forced to use for development.

@pabslondon 4 года назад

The 2018 Mac Mini is upgradable

@ZakiWasik 5 лет назад

For a short second I thought you had added USB-C. Then I remembered that was what the power socket looked like back then :D

@adrcardoso 4 года назад

Thanks buddy! I have a Mac Mini 2,1, already bought SSD, new processor and memory, will upgrade it next week. Thanks for the good video!!

@ricardorgomez 5 лет назад

Still surprised the CPU swap worked. Excellent job!

@callmeishmael3031 5 лет назад

The 2006 and 2007 Mac Minis were the last Mac Minis to have a cpu that wasn't soldered to the motherboard and people have been upgrading the cpu since they came out. Good luck doing this upgrade on any Mac Mini that came out in 2009 or later.

@weiwenwwe2066 5 лет назад

The core 2 duo amazes me till today

@neurocrash808 4 года назад

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I found one if these Mac mini's in the trash and was able to upgrade it to a Core2 Duo with 4gb of Ram for next to nothing, which is just what I needed to help with cpu and memory hungry Logic Pro.

@FS--ew3se 3 года назад

I I would find mac's in the trash lmao

@juanpabloarizabalo8011 4 года назад

i did the same upgrade to my 2006 iMac 4,1. But i used the faster T7600 at 2.33Ghz. Also, you can get that Mac to run up to Mavericks with full QE/CI GPU acceleration with ParrotGeek's patch. He also compiled the current Firefox for Mavericks.

@BurninSven1 4 года назад

Where can I find some info about the patch got an old mini too I wanna try this on, thanks

@KOSMOS1701A 5 лет назад

i should do this with my core duo imac,i just need the tools and parts.

@robertwilsoniii2048 2 года назад

I would buy one of these for $20 without hesitation. Older Mac Os Tiger is basically a rock solid BSD distribution on a PowerPC architecture. How awesome.

@Logic23music 5 лет назад

You give new life to old devices, I estimate you for this!

@Nava4Gamingz 4 года назад

Imagine We know Him as a friend. Paradise for tech lovers!

@samf1504 5 лет назад

I want someone to turn the top plastic on the Mac Mini into a wireless charger.

@SJSOmar 5 лет назад

Arctic Fox that is a genius idea

@MarcosGarcia-cz4pc 5 лет назад

that is a genius idea x2

@TimurTripp2 5 лет назад

The early prototype Mac mini G4 actually had an iPod dock in the plastic top, but the dock was dropped before they entered production.

@kennedymcdon3674 5 лет назад

That shouldnt be too hard you could get a cheap wireless chargee from Amazon and then connect it directly to the mother board im saying that from a windows perspective but if not you could pass a usb through the the rear IO

@Mindplay591 5 лет назад

I can do that, but i dont have a mac mini. Thats a great idea

@rocistone6570 5 лет назад

It does my old kit basher's heart good to see someone doing this kind of thing. The moment that someone says "You can't do that" or "Take what we give you-or else." I consider it a personal challenge to prove them wrong. If anyone tries to tell you that you "can't" do something with something you own, spit in their eye, and do it anyhow, just for the satisfaction.

@maxitenia 5 лет назад

Great job! You can upgrade the HDD to a SSD and change de DVD drive for a HDD to have more space and fast boot.

@kalijasin 4 года назад

I love the design of these old macs. They were stellar.

@jermainedaniels4423 5 лет назад

Hey Andrew, I just found your page, you're so freaking cool. Thanks for the videos.... please keep them coming.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew 5 лет назад

THank you bro :D now i'm working on some other better projects, soon will be available

@jermainedaniels4423 5 лет назад

Cat and Andrew Perfect! I can’t wait. I’m gonna try some of your project on my old tech ❤️👌🏾👍🏾

@paulcross4632 4 года назад

Your voice is hella soothing, gonna do this to my Mac mini. Thanks!

@itsdesmos 5 лет назад

Hey there, i love your videos

@wichanaothaworn9441 5 лет назад

Man! I still keep it for a couple years. Now I gonna upgrade it.

@moyronjose 5 лет назад

@MisantropoFilantropo 4 года назад

I'm impressed to see all of this upgreadability. I had not so time ago a laptop from this era and I had to dessist to upgrade it. It had a 32-bit Core Duo running at 1.73 GHz, but due to socket limitations, it was impossible to upgrade to a 64-bit Core 2 Duo. Also I had to stick with 2 GB of RAM. But what surprissed me the most of this video is that this little mac had SATA interface and you can put an SSD! My old laptop had only PATA connection, so any upgrade in that field could had been useless... Core Duo was an strange thing. I think they were the last 32-bit desktop CPUs before the massive adoption of the 64-bit architecture and they are now completely pointless.

@carholic-sz3qv 5 лет назад

i think you could have uprgade to SSD too

@killaxgames9658 5 лет назад

Blazi3 hè didnt

@SmashCatRandom 5 лет назад

@@Blazi3... yeah it also says "SSD" in the About screen he shows...

@oldskoolhead0 5 лет назад

he should have upgraded to a windows pc ;-)

@goyadressunofficial 5 лет назад

@@oldskoolhead0 This. Old unsupported Macs make pretty darn good Windows PCs. We have a Mac Pro 1,1 at work that flies on Windows 10 Pro.

@R-L-D 5 лет назад

@@oldskoolhead0 Winblows

@stepcorngrumbleteats7683 5 лет назад

I'm running Yosemite on a 3,1 Server w 6 Gbs of Ram *it runs OK, but I really want to upgrade*...Will look to do this after your EXCELLENT upgrade vid.

@montmn 5 лет назад

Dudes accent is awesome. Thanks for the informative vid.

@zerocks88 5 лет назад

I want to upgrade MY fearmwhar! great video :)

@LKComputes 5 лет назад

But ten everything won't be back into ta normal.

@icecoolice7818 5 лет назад

NicGlol please tell me that spelling of “firmware” is a joke.... 😂😂😂

@sebastian4699 5 лет назад

Does it run really smurt?

@advers-cg 3 года назад

Ебать англичане выискались. Посмотрел бы я как вы заебались говорить хотя бы пару фраз по-русски гыгы. Ви воз глэд ту си ю он аур плэйн блеать.

@onigvd77 Год назад

i will be doing this to mine this year. i will also try some other hardware changes too. thanks for the video :)

@BlaGGah 5 лет назад

Thanks Andrew, you just gave me a good idea.

@GaryDrumm 4 года назад

This was my first Mac. Haven't looked back since.

@ritzz4789 3 года назад

mac is shit sir

@Adamlol642 3 года назад

@@ritzz4789 are you serious

@vivzey 3 года назад

@NintendoSwitch Guy mc os is the only reason to choose mac

@gab310308 2 года назад

@NintendoSwitch Guy stfu Mac is trash LOL

@cubillosr 5 лет назад

Great video To install kext on OS X Yosemite 1. Install kext from Kext Wizard 2. Reboot and hold command + S during the boot to boot in single user mode 3 type: sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1" 4. reboot Yosemite and enjoy Also working with GMA 950 Kext

@GameRoof1 5 лет назад

wait seriously? Is it smooth? Can you watch RU-vid videos like you can on 10.8 or 10.9?

@margescomputerservices219 4 года назад

Awesome video boss!!! I'm going to have to get one of these and try this out. I live bring older computers back to life.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew 4 года назад

Thank you :D

@margescomputerservices219 4 года назад

@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew Totally welcome boss and keep bringing out more videos. Especially computer videos lol.

@TimoziusVanKaukus 5 лет назад

WoW, good work man!

@spacet1me 5 лет назад

I want an 8 hour loop of just you saying firmware. Good video, watched it fully.

@kipbg 5 лет назад

I'll pay to see this, lol!

@jv6miata 5 лет назад

Fjirmwar

@drive_with_pov 4 года назад

Feermwer

@Kn4ever2008 4 года назад

Hamburglar! Lol

@fitzsensible 4 года назад

lol, he stumped the subtitles too... "film noir", "fuel var", "fuel bar"...

@djwillner4621 5 лет назад

I love your videos

@EmberwolfXR 4 года назад

did this to my 2007 yesterday, found a ssd for 20bucks brand new. upgraded ram to 2.5 gigs just enough to run 10.8 smooth. She's running very smooth now, and boots so fast. May install win 10 but so far all the software online i want supports 10.7.5 so i think i'm good.

@cybernetix86 5 лет назад

I love this keyboard!

@ccedraro3878 5 лет назад

great video! use the same macmini as a server and make a video.

@NiPPonD3nZ0 5 лет назад

Nice tuturial, but one thing is wrong: The machine see's the 4GB, but will only use 3GB! If you go to Utilities/Activity Monitor and select MEMORY, you will see it only adressess 3GB.

@laptopleon6386 4 года назад

I was also sceptical about that it will not start up with too much ram. Usually, a Mac will just ignore the excess ram.

@staninjapan07 4 года назад

Your videos are great! Liked. Subscribed.

@seshpenguin 5 лет назад

Oh! I have this style of mac mini (Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM). I use it as a HTPC (using DisplayPort to HDMI and Optical Audio) running Windows XP MCE 2005!

@davejnathan10 5 лет назад

Woah I thought it was not possible to upgrade the Mac Mini's proc, nicely done Andrew! *thumbs up* Also, is it possible to swap the superdrive in Mac Mini? And it seems the osx mavericks and later really did need a true newer system even though the CPU is already up to the task

@aklstreak 3 года назад

Very good information. I have the same Mac Mini, used it many years as Media Center. Later then used Bootcamp, put a SSD inside and it is still running Windows 10 reasonably well. Biggest drawback ist the 2GB RAM limitation, so I might try your suggestion with the CPU change if I can get hold of one. That little machine is 14 years old now and still usable. I did the same with an 27 inch iMac which I got cheap on Ebay. It's my wife's favourite PC because of the display. I just don't like Apple's policy to try and force users to depreciate perfectly usable hardware.

@Midhat788 2 года назад

Still using it?

@JamesHalfHorse 4 года назад

I did the same thing with a Mac Pro 1,1 I got for about 100 bucks. By the time I was done it had running Yosemite on dual quad xeons, 32gb of ram, 4x1TB hard drives dual video cards running 2 24" monitors and 1 40" monitor. All total I have about 500 in it. Other than cranking out insane amounts of heat its very usable.

@RBSVader 5 лет назад

For a $20 it's a hell of a machine. Nice.

@michele97593 5 лет назад

Fine YT, I will watch it..... calm down

@GlovedGame 3 года назад

Nobody: The lady singing in the background: *stroke*

@Scinner14 5 лет назад

I'm using my mac mini 2,1 as a backup server with debian 9. It's low power and reliable, also quiet. And cheap.

@Billy123bobzzz 5 лет назад

Well done Andrew, percent video! Say hello to Cat!

@OlavAlexanderMjelde 4 года назад

I took an 2007 iMac, put in SSD and Ubuntu :-) Then I installed nvidia drivers and steam. I didnt use it though, but it looks cool I think. Toying the idea of putting a mini itx inside it now.

@Vault_Tek_Industries 4 года назад

You can put Broadcom Crystal HD card instead of wifi card. It works great in Kodi environment.

@rich1051414 5 лет назад

I wish I could upgrade my fume warr.

@FrederickTSchurgerDC 4 года назад

Love it!! I have a 2007 iMac that's in this same boat and I've been wondering how to upgrade it for use today! I'll be sure to dig around your channel to figure it out!

@kholloway2k7 4 года назад

Hey, if you have any luck will you please let me know? I have a mid 2009 iMac and I bought it to help someone out and it won’t boot up. I have tried all the options that I know how and am stuck..any help would be much appreciated! Thanks! And good luck working on yours!

@mannyp3237 5 лет назад

Thanks for sharing,keep it up!

@Dacari13 5 лет назад

Quite a profit in resell market.

@iShad3s 5 лет назад

If only there was a working browser!

@magcs6233 5 лет назад

Shades there is, it’s called waterfox

@MrCooper83 5 лет назад

That was my first Macintosh in 2008 :)

@zahirhossain2865 4 года назад

MRZsiir Hope now u got a MAC pro

@yusof843 5 лет назад

Awesome and cool video! Keep it up bro...👍👍

@WarriorsPhoto 5 лет назад

Very cool upgrade sir. I would like to this myself one day. Also, Mountain Lion would be more then enough for a small media machine like that.

@ZonaALG 5 лет назад

I've always wanted to have a Mac to learn how MacOS works. This might be a nice and cheap option

@alejandroooow 5 лет назад

Zona ALG hazte un hackintosh en un virtual box, cuesta 0 euros y va genial.

@circuit10 4 года назад

@Kukilatoo I did that. That is a bit hard to use and slow though

@theoosullivan1635 5 лет назад

where did you find this for $20? the same model i looked at was like $100!!

@CityLifeinAmerica 5 лет назад

This thing is still useful as a homebridge!

@stanmccorkle 4 года назад

Thank you for making this video. I’m curious if you would be willing to make a video with more detail about how to fix the WiFi issue?

@ecu8r 5 лет назад

What about replacing the spinning drive with an SSD?

@cossinle 5 лет назад

Just do it.

@cronpham 5 лет назад

did u try to replace the wifi card into new broadcom one to access wifi, air drop?

@inhthuyyen2527 5 лет назад

Hello Vietnamese comrats

@RicardoRiosM 5 лет назад

Very good! Thank you for the tips!

@PaceyPimp 5 лет назад

I did my iMac late 2009 with i7. I upgraded to 1tSSD and 32GB of ram and installed unsupported Mojave like you did and it runs like new. I can even play games on it but i need to run a external fan to help keep heat low.

@josesierra1823 5 лет назад

Great Video!!! can you put all the computer parts CPU and RAM models ??? thank you is a great proyect!!!

@plasmar1 5 лет назад

T7200 is the most common cpu..... they're cheap, and the ram maxes at I think 3gb of ddr2 sodimm(laptop ram)

@kevinoakes1171 5 лет назад

Jose Sierra ?

@EweToobUsername 5 лет назад

Core 2 Duo T series (T7200 was used but T7600 is also supported) and any generic (intel compatible) DDR2-667 or 800 laptop memory will work just fine since that Mac uses a Intel 945-based motherboard.

@michaelinman2124 5 лет назад

I bought one (2006 MacMini) from the local university's auction for $15 spent $20 on eBay for the 2.33GHz processor, $10 pair of 2GB Ram sticks (I know it only uses 3GB) Flashed it to 2.1. Installed 10.7.5 and put it inside a TRS-80 case added a USB Super drive, and two 7 port USB3 hubs and a speaker bar on top. Wish I could add pictures.

@michaelinman2124 5 лет назад

It had a 750GB HD and I didn't have enough money to get an SSD, maybe a later upgrade.

@MezeiEugen 5 лет назад

In other words you fucked two classic designs to make a shit.

@tromick 5 лет назад

Wow.

@60percenthomo94 5 лет назад

Or you could’ve just simply got a normal fucking pc

@icecoolice7818 5 лет назад

Michael Inman waste of money. Smh.

@spitt0110 5 лет назад

that is cool! I wish I held onto my old mac mini.

@YouKnowMeDuh 5 лет назад

Cute keyboard. Looks nice.

@ajanthony4604 5 лет назад

Dude is a genius.

@mlbslugger62 5 лет назад

Hed be a bit more of a genius if he knew that mac minis never shipped with a mouse or keyboard.

@ArifKamaruzaman 5 лет назад

Upgrade to SSD. will it be faster?

@capth00k 5 лет назад

For sure. Alot faster. I did this to an old white core 2 duo macbook which has been in use at my parents place as a standalone music / itunes machine for years now.

@DamienDae 4 года назад

I replaced the hard drive with an inexpensive SSD, my Mac Mini (1.66 Ghz) now boots in 18 seconds and everything is much faster.

@9inchpp 4 года назад

Depends. If the connection is SATA 2 even if it's faster than the old hard drive it's still pretty slow

@EweToobUsername 5 лет назад

The other solution for older machines and wifi is upgrading the wifi card to one that was in a Mac from the year the OS version you're using was released.

@topclass2008 5 лет назад

outstanding work

@srgiop4 4 года назад

Great video. It's kind of sad how Apple has changed with how open and upgradeable their products were. That's why I haven't dropped my Macbook Pro mid-2012 yet, the thing still has space for upgrades and runs the latest macOS versions!

@peterwan小P 5 лет назад

5:35 keep in mind that it is R-am (RAM) not R-OM (ROM) these are completely different stuff.

@jamescarter3196 4 года назад

I'm sure he had no idea. Good thing you said that or he might have accidentally installed ROM sticks in the RAM slots.

@peterwan小P 4 года назад

@@jamescarter3196 xD

@sreen81 4 года назад

I’m sure he meant RAM, it is his accent which makes it sound like ROM.

@Fran-op8tc 5 лет назад

This video is fantastic!

@CozumelTy 4 года назад

Great work!! Nice!!

@PingshongArchive 5 лет назад

OH MY GOD

@oliviarose9541 5 лет назад

What is the best CPU supported?

@EweToobUsername 5 лет назад

Core 2 Duo T7600 (2.33 GHz).

@leewayde 5 лет назад

Ultra budget, this is my kind of dude

@magnustorque5528 4 года назад

Really great video ! I'm glad I watched this because I almost installed El Capitan on my 2,1.

@zakariaibrahimmohamedelsar7709 4 года назад

magnus torque el capitan if I translate to inglish its The capitan

@tomaten1499 5 лет назад

"hello my name is Andrew" he says. 🤣😆😎

@Trev0r98 4 года назад

OH man, you missed the most important hardware upgrade: replacing the spinner hard drive with an SSD (at least 512 GB)

@eccremocarpusscaber5159 4 года назад

Trev0r98 he did. Just didn’t mention it for some weird reason!

@Trev0r98 4 года назад

@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 How do you know that?

@HearMeLearn 2 года назад

@@Trev0r98 you can see it in disk utility

@imperius_lxxvii9999 5 лет назад

i do have a mac mini 2.0 (core 2 duo 2.0ghz, 120g hdd, 2gb ram) that i am not using .. downloaded the firmware tool and ill update that thing a little. thanks man.

@DRKcompany 5 лет назад

This is brilliant

@ibizenco 5 лет назад

Hey, look, USB ports.

@borislavdavis4526 4 года назад

You can install'' The'' Windows XP, 7,10

@WellBeSerious12 4 года назад

Success rate/problems with 10 Pro x64?

@tj71520 4 года назад

Xp,7,8,8.1,10

@raykupal 4 года назад

.... why would you do that? rather install linux...

@joes9954 3 года назад

Great video. I just picked up one of these for $4 ( Though I need a power supply) Looking forward to those upgrades.

@issaty5511 5 лет назад

I love Mac videos like this PLEASE make more u are very good at this u should do one on the very first MacBook Pro because it also had a intel core duo instead of a intel core 2 duo

@tronixfix 5 лет назад

Ahhhh yeah the well known "fimwar" 😉

@geoman1420 5 лет назад

If you want to run current versions of programs install Linux Mint or Linux MX (you can dual-boot if you want to keep OSX). Much faster than OSX and more secure. I run Mint on my MacBook Pro (late 2008) which was stuck with El Capitan (i can install Mojave by patching kexts but it is slow compared to Linux).

@harrytsang1501 5 лет назад

My MacBook Pro 2009 is also stuck on El Capitan, but I run Mojave on it. I can take Linux any day of the week but I still want the trackpad gestures

@WarriorsPhoto 5 лет назад

Good to know. Could we use that OS for a media machine?

@PaceyPimp 5 лет назад

I prefer Deepin and it looks just like Mojave

@narwhal4304 5 лет назад

@@PaceyPimp Understood why, but it takes up more resources than most Linux Distros.

@sid-mw7nz 5 лет назад

Mint 18 and lower look like trash but Mint 19 looks amazing -from a mint 18 user

@Omiefury 4 года назад

Nice work!

@cultureoverall3012 3 года назад

Great video sir!

@stenic2 5 лет назад

I have the original powerpc version, there is nothing I can do with it

@VAX1970 4 года назад

doorstop?

@dell177 5 лет назад

That mini might actually support 6GB of ram like my 2007 iMac actually does.

@4clive 5 лет назад

4GB sticks of DDR2 are rare and not cost effective.

@bobc3895 5 лет назад

@@4clive They are not commonly available new but if you watch and wait they can be had on Ebay for a decent price.

@cdoublejj 5 лет назад

@@4clive $30-40 USD on ebay

@4clive 5 лет назад

@@cdoublejj exactly, and 2GB a couple of Bucks, so 4GB is about $5 and a modest increase to 6GB would be $45, so not worth it.

@cdoublejj 5 лет назад

@@4clive if the machine is free and one has an ssd and an older core 2 duo it's def worth $35 if your gonna use it enough. that's also the last time i looked a a year or 2 ago prices may be even lower now. i found the intel 7260 wifi cards to be more price at $25 ish for the 5ghz AC version

@unofficialgamer1884 3 года назад

Wow starting apps like music and browser is faster than my i3 6GB ram. The os is well optimized

@IncApu2025 4 года назад

Great job Andrew!! New subs.

@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew 4 года назад

Thank you bro :D

@ultrashadowskull9243 5 лет назад

what about the ssd drive

@cdoublejj 5 лет назад

or intel 7260 wifi card!

@user-lu8ze8tp9j 5 лет назад

@@cdoublejj Intel wifi is not working in mac os

@cdoublejj 5 лет назад

@@user-lu8ze8tp9j Linux or windows it does! I installed win10 direct with no boot camp

@Zackhasacat 5 лет назад

Solid state drive drive?

@peteraferguson88 5 лет назад

@@Zackhasacat Yes - I did this to two old iMacs (2007 I think) and it makes a HUGE difference. Have a third I need to get scheduled. Boot up in under 9 seconds and apps launch close to instantly. Now I need to see if I can get them on a newer OS with a chip upgrade so as banking and many other sites no longer support older OS.