New MacMini & iMacs?

Not seen the tear down, but the external chassis looks very similar to the 2012 model and as they're offering 5400rpm drives I'd imagine you can quite easily. Unless of course they did that annoying this with a custom drive that unless a certain connection is made bypasses the thermal sensor and makes the fans spin at 100%...
 
So the base model mac mini upgraded to 8gb ram would be a decent little machine running from an external SSD ...... overpriced still but a good "gateway to mac" machine.
 
It's an internal install. You unscrew the bottom plastic circle plate, remove the fan module, wifi aerial and a couple of other screws and you can get access to the drive. It's 4 screw lugs and it slides in and reconnects. Some guides say to remove the board with a special 2 pin tool but you can do the upgrade without if you're careful. Just make sure you locate the lugs in the rubber receivers. You'll see what I mean. :)

Or just buy a 2011/12 Mini second hand for £200-250 and upgrade the RAM and SSD in that.

As per the above, I've got a 2.3 i5 2011 with 8GB and a Sammy 840 512GB and it's a great little machine. Graphically a bit weak and would be nice to have a machine in warranty again but it copes admirably enough to not justify a 2014 machine. :)
 
Any idea if you can still upgrade the Mac Mini ram yourself?

Reckon I'll go for top Mac Mini as standard (2.8GHZ, 8GB RAM, 1Tb Fusion drive) and then just chuck in 16GB myself.
 
Anyone know if you can still upgrade the RAM & add an additional hard drive in these new mac minis?

Shame on the lack of quad core though... not sure if I should get a second hand one...
 
I've gone for a base spec one for use as a htpc with plex, should have plenty of power for transcoding.
 
DanF said:
I've gone for a base spec one for use as a htpc with plex, should have plenty of power for transcoding.
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Really interested to hear how you get on. I am going same route but XBMC I think. I've a NAS with the files on in my office upstairs and they are linked via power line Ethernet to downstairs. Want a small PC/Mac device with TV so been awaiting this. Rarely need to transcode so want it more the presentation.
 
yeah I might go xbmc front end as the plex gui is a bit basic. But power either with plex server. tried it on my old macbook 6.2 and it worked fine with loads of spare cpu.

I've just got a couple of usb HD's plugged in to an old and e350 powered box atm running openelec.
 
hartgeh3 said:
I'm going to stick with my 2012 2.6ghz i7 16GB with Sammy SSD, screw the new one. Not worth replacing, will wait for the next one.....
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thats it now your machine is worth a lot more now that they messed up the haswell machines :(
 
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