{"id":621,"date":"2009-03-16T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:42:05","slug":"upgrade-your-mac-mini-early-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/621-upgrade-your-mac-mini-early-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Your Mac Mini (Early 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lloyd Chambers of diglloyd.com has posted a comprehensive upgrade guide<\/a> to the newest Mac mini (Early 2009), titled: Apple Mac Mini 2009 \u2014 the Green machine<\/em>. This new Mac mini offers the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics card, the same as was introduced with the aluminum \u201cUnibody\u201d\u00a0MacBooks.<\/p>\n

Apple touts it as \u201cthe world\u2019s most energy efficient desktop, drawing less than 13 watts of power when idle.\u201d\u00a0Lloyd takes it out for a ride and confirms the lower power use when the base RAM is installed, but notes energy consumption is a bit higher when you max out the memory.<\/p>\n

The article gives you all the information you need to turn your new Mac mini into a server or to upgrade it with a faster hard drive and more RAM. We make it easy to do these upgrades with a one-stop-shop page complete with installation videos<\/a>. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The best news is the missing MacBook FireWire ports are found as an 800-FireWire port on the new Mac mini. Using all the OWC tools, RAM, and hard drive updates options; this machine comes highly recommended for many types of needs.<\/p>\n

Plus, if you’re missing FireWire 400 ports for those legacy desktop accessories, no problem, our miniStack line<\/a> gives you plug and play connectivity for those devices plus external storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lloyd Chambers of diglloyd.com has posted a comprehensive upgrade guide to the newest Mac mini (Early 2009), titled: Apple Mac Mini 2009 \u2014 the Green machine. This new Mac mini offers the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics card, the same as was introduced with the aluminum \u201cUnibody\u201d\u00a0MacBooks. 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