Mac Mini HELP

[ag55]

Im buying a Mini for someone, its going to be a gift. Im going to buy the cheapest base model and upgrade it myself for them.

- Can someone give me a link to a 750GB-1TB 2.5" drive, i've been looking around for laptop drives but cant find any. (UK links would be best).
- Should i go with a standard 5400 or will a 7200 be better
- With 4GB RAM upgrade, will the shared video memory increase from 128 to 256 for the base model

 

[jackiecanev2]

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I'd suggest 7200 if you can find it. typical tradeoff between 5400 and 7200 is speed vs battery life, but since the mini is a desktop there really is no trade except faster speed vs your carbon footprint (energy consumption).

Wd scorpio blue has a 1tb drive, try googling that in the UK.

 

[feelthefire]

Do the Minis take 12.5mm drives or 9.5mm drives? if 9.5 there are no 1tb laptop drives. The 9.5mm size maxes out at 500gb.

 

[ag55]

Do the Minis take 12.5mm drives or 9.5mm drives? if 9.5 there are no 1tb laptop drives. The 9.5mm size maxes out at 500gb.

9.5, guess i'll have to do with 500gb.
you can remove the superdrive and add a second hard drive but its too much hassle, and i think she'll have a wtf moment when it has no cd drive

 

[Chris Rogers]

- Can someone give me a link to a 750GB-1TB 2.5" drive, i've been looking around for laptop drives but cant find any. (UK links would be best).

Isn't the biggest 2.5" only 500GB? I could be wrong.
EDIT: I'm wrong http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=685 it's expensive http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10296034-1.html

- With 4GB RAM upgrade, will the shared video memory increase from 128 to 256 for the base model

Yep, it will do this at 2GB

 

[MacMini2009]

Im buying a Mini for someone, its going to be a gift. Im going to buy the cheapest base model and upgrade it myself for them.

- Can someone give me a link to a 750GB-1TB 2.5" drive, i've been looking around for laptop drives but cant find any. (UK links would be best).
- Should i go with a standard 5400 or will a 7200 be better
- With 4GB RAM upgrade, will the shared video memory increase from 128 to 256 for the base model

- The 750GB/1TB hard drive will not fit. Get the 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue.
- Scorpio Blue is faster than other 7200RPM hard drives
- With 2GB+, the VRAM will automatically allocate to 256MB.