Help me please with this processor swap!!!!

[ldebarros]

I have a mac mini G4 with a 1.42 GHZ processor and the hard drive died. I also have an old G4 "Quicksilver with a 867 mhz processor. What would it take to take the processor out of the mini and put it into the G4.

 

[Tallest Skil]

I'm fairly certain you can't do that.

 

[Synthabusion]

I don't know the ins & outs of the mini design but wouldn't it be easier to just install a new hard drive?

 

[Tallest Skil]

I don't know the ins & outs of the mini design but wouldn't it be easier to just install a new hard drive?

Hang on, whoa, what the.

Changing the processor will do NOTHING for the broken hard drive. Get a new hard drive, leave the incompatible and meaningless processors alone.

 

[7031]

The processor in the Mac Mini is soldered on.