Now I am certainly not a handyman of any shape or form.  I am not really very good with using tools and honestly I don’t care about them.  So that is why I never really thought I’d be purchasing a putty knife.  But yet yesterday found me going to Ace Hardware to purchase a putty knife.  

 

The reason I got the putty knife, well just look at the picture above.  I used it to open up my Mac Mini so I could upgrade the paltry amount of RAM it comes with, which also was faulty.  Of course Apple can’t be simple and just use a few screws to keep it together nope.  They had to use interior clips to keep it all together.  So to get those clips apart you need to use a putty knife to pry it apart.  This sounds a lot harder than it actually is.  It turned out to be a lot easier than I figured.

 

So now my little Mini has 2gb instead of the tiny 512mb.  Up next you ask?  Well as soon as they come in there is a 100gb 7200K RPM HD to replace the 80GB 5400K RPM drive in there, and then a wireless N airport card with an extra antenna is coming soon too.  Eventually I am going to upgrade the processor also, but for now the Core Duo at 1.83Ghz will suffice.

 

~Andy