Follow steps 1-17 from the section above to remove the existing drive and prepare your new SSD boot drive.You can use either a hard drive or an SSD, or as we have here, a Seagate Firecuda hybrid drive, not unlike the Fusion Drive Apple uses in some of its machines. You could reuse the existing hard drive, but since it's over six years old, it makes much better sense to use a fresh one. Not everyone will want to do this, but it is possible to install a second drive in the 2012 Mac Mini to maximize its storage potential. Professional pry tool kit (opens in new tab) ($10 at Amazon)īetter than using your fingers, this pry tool kit is worth having in your tool kit for those hard to remove and tiny parts. Built-to-order options included a 2.66 GHz dual-core processor, up to 8GB of RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive.Pry Tool Kit (Image credit: Amazon) (opens in new tab) The Mac mini (Mid 2010) shipped in single configuration, with a 2.4 GHz Dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and a 320 GB hard drive, for $699. Additionally, the mini-DVI port was replaced with an HDMI port (another nod to the Apple TV), hard drive capacity was improved, and an SDXC slot was added. Though processor speed was only marginally increased, the graphics chipset was roughly twice as fast. Introduced in June 2010, the redesigned Mac mini (Mid 2010) was wider and shorter than the previous Mac mini (Late 2009), with the same footprint as the Apple TV. Actual usage varied with graphics load, resulting in slightly less RAM available for system use. Though reported as a 256 MB graphics system, this was actually a minimum. The Mac mini's graphics chipset used a portion of main memory as VRAM.

Optical Drive: 24x/24x/16x/8x/8x/6x/4x CD-RW/DVD±RW/DVD±R DLĪudio Out: stereo 24 bit mini, Optical S/PDIF, HDMI, HDMI via Mini DisplayPortĪudio In: stereo 24 bit mini, Optical S/PDIF Max Resolution: 1920x1200 via HDMI, 2560x1600 via Mini Displayport Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 32 kB instruction CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo (P7xxx/P8xxx)

Mac mini mid 2010 ram