— unpredictable thoughts

Enhancing my new desktop computer.

So, I really had to buy a new com­puter. I was with­out another machine if my Mac­Book Pro needed to visit the apple hos­pi­tal so I bought another portable. A shiny, tiny Mac mini. What a sweet lit­tle box. I needed to give it a bit more zoom though. I started by upgrad­ing it to the new spot­ted cat OS. It makes the lit­tle block zoom. But to make it scream I needed processes to have all the help they needed to be efficient.

I headed over to other world com­put­ing.
Mem­ory upgrades. YES. The 3 gig upgrade looked very good and only 79 bucks. That will help feed the OS beast. Next step, look­ing to replace the 5400 rpm hard drive with a speed­ier 7200 and more gigs to store all those pho­tos and mp3’s. Hitachi Trav­el­star 200 gb is look­ing very good — 200 bucks.

Every­thing arrived and I took out my tools to begin open­ing the lit­tle chick­let. Pry­ing it open care­fully took a bit of patience. I didn’t want to scratch or break any of the plas­tic pieces. I took out my putty knife and a few old plas­tic mem­ber­ship cards. The mini is an amaz­ingly tight piece of tech­nol­ogy. Get­ting to every­thing I needed to how­ever only took care and patience. Now that the new RAM is in place and the new hard drive my mini screams. Adding a wire­less mouse and key­board com­pleted the workstation.

Yip­pie.

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