Daily Archives: March 23, 2007

Mac Mini upgrade tool kit purchased

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Picked up my Mac-mini upgrade tools on the way home from the office today. Yes thank to Apple if you want to do any upgrades to the Mac Mini you need specials tools. Everything that I have seen on upgrading the ram in a Mac Mini indicates that to open up the Mac Mini you need 2 putty knives! Yes putty knives. It also better to use thin plastic putty knives instead of steel ones, as the steel ones will scratch the bottom of the case and chassis.

I plan on upgrading from 512Mb of Ram to 1 GB of ram. The Kingston ram for the mini has been sitting here for a few months so I am going to get to it over the weekend.

After the upgrade, I also wanted to run a little social experiment and set up the Mac and have the kids and SWMBO use it to see how that adapt. Keep checking to hear on the results of the upgrade and the social experiment!

Stephen

Reminder.. Calgary RASC Public Star Night Saturday Mar 24th

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Just a reminder that the Calgary Centre of RASC is holding a public star night tomorrow, March 24th at the west end of Fish Creek Park. The event starts at 7:00 PM and runs till 10:00, and goes clear or cloudy. Several members will have telescopes set up to see our special guest, the planet Saturn, (Weather permitting) and there will be games for kids, informative booths and presentations. For more information and maps to the location please visit the RASC Calgary website at
http://calgary.rasc.ca

You can also read more about the event in my earlier post about it, just click on the Astronomy category.

Stephen

Lots to blog about

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Today was quite a day! Came up with lots of articles to post to the blog. Watch over the coming weekend to see articles on several things. I want to start adding a special series on some of the features of Vista that are available in the different versions and maybe help you make a decision on whether this would be reason enough to upgrade. I have some announcements about some new products that we now have access to (think convergence), a personal rant about a situation that happened today and a phone call to a Customer Service agent and more.

Keep checking back or use your RSS reader to see more posts soon.

 

Stephen