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Mac mini's memory and snow leopard?

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Necro

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Mar 18, 2010
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Alright so I have a mac mini. Runs on tiger. Well a friend bought me the sims 3 for my birthday but comes to found out i need os 10.5 and higher. Well I went out and bought snow leopard since it was cheap and THEN come to find out i need 1 gb ram.

To be honest i know nothing of computers.

so i check the memory and it says 512 mb

is that my ram?

if so are there tiny pieces of ram floating around my computer or do i need to buy another ram card?

really i might take it to the apple store to get it done but i don't feel like spending money on an analysis

thanks in advance
 
what type of mini have you got, running on tiger? open system profiler, it could be a G4 model, which wont support snow leopard, seems weird a intel mini only having 512Mb, even the basic intels shipped with at least 1Gb
 
flopticalcube said:
Depends on the mini. At any rate 512MB is your current RAM. If you have an Intel mini then you can upgrade to at least 2GB. If you have a PPC mini, you can't run Snow Leopard anyway so the amount of RAM is moot.
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i do have an intel =3

so would i have to take it to the apple store to get an upgrade?
 
Given that you had 512MB originally, I'm guessing you have a Core Solo or Core Duo mini. These can take 2GB max. As BennieBoy says, you can do it yourself but opening up a mini can be a scary proposition for some. The RAM will probably set you back about $40-$50 (2X1GB DDR2-667 SODIMMs).
 
you could if your not very technically minded but it can be done yourself
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I'd be to scared to do that, specially with scissors o.o but thanks anyways xD

flopticalcube said:
Given that you had 512MB originally, I'm guessing you have a Core Solo or Core Duo mini. These can take 2GB max. As BennieBoy says, you can do it yourself but opening up a mini can be a scary proposition for some. The RAM will probably set you back about $40-$50 (2X1GB DDR2-667 SODIMMs).
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Intel Core Duo

and i called the apple people =3= it willset me back another 30 dollars so about 80 in all.

Thanks for the help both of you ^3^
 
If you take it to Apple, and happen to mention that you jumped from Tiger to Snow Leopard on the cheap ($30), they might slap you. ;)

SL Box Set ($169) is what they sell for pre-Leopard licensed Macs.
 
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