You can use your finger nails or the Small flat head screw driver to do this. This can be done by taking out the brown plastic piece which is wedged between the orange ribbon and the white slot. Continue by unhooking the orange ribbon cable that connects the Optical drive and Hard drive to the Motherboard:

You can finish the upgrade without doing the next two steps or.Ģ. Now, being very careful, slowly pull the top half of the mini Up then over and lean it on the Back Ports:ġ. Next, in the front of the Mini, under the Optical drive and to the right of the Battery, there's a little black wire you need to unplug.ĭo so by prying it up with your Small flat head screw driver: It should pop off, revealing the screw you can now take out: To take that off, squeeze the two plastic pieces under it using your thumb and index finger: Screw #4 is hidden under the Airport Antenna. So take out the screws in each corner using your Medium sized philips screw driver: Look! There's the inside of the Mini! All carefully crammed together. Then bend the putty knife outward (away from the mini) until the Mini pops out a little, do this around all three sides until it looks like this: Get your putty knife and carefully squeeze it in between the aluminum and plastic around the outer rim on the bottom of the Mini. I will be upgrading it to 2GB of RAM from Corsair. In this case I am upgrading a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini 1.83Ghz which only has 1GB of RAM in it. You can buy this type of memory on in the Memory section and other various sites. The Intel Mac Mini uses PC2-5300 200-Pin DDR2 SODIMM memory running at 667Mhz.

This upgrade tutorial is for the Intel Core Solo, Core Duo and Core 2 Duo Mac Mini. *A putty knife (or two, if you feel you need it) I found out that Upgrading your RAM in your Mac Mini will not Void your Warranty unless you break something yourself.

Note: If some of the images do not show up, try refreshing your browser. This tutorial will teach you how to upgrade your Memory (aka, RAM) in your Intel Mac Mini.

Late 2014 mac mini ram upgrade