My Problem

Upgrade to super Mac mini

My Fix

Very well

My Advice

You are gread

My Problem

Wanted more storage space

My Fix

The repair went perfect! Very clear instructions, easy to do.

Shame that you can't order just the cable... I already own the needed tools. (apart from the logic-board-prying tool, but that's easily producible...)

My Advice

Go slow, take your time, and be careful, and then nothing can go wrong ;-)

My Problem

Need to use an SSD in place of the ridiculous 5400 rpm HD sold as standard HD in my Mac Mini i7 2,7ghz. Sounds like a Bill Gates story. Thank you Apple o:(

My Fix

Package arrived in Europe 24 ours after ordering. Wow!!!

Everything was fine to unmount. Except in the other way for putting back the power cable step 16 and to put back the antenna connector (step 10). 10 minutes each and no chocolate or candies at home.

My Advice

Make special tools and guides for big hands. Everybody has not asian-like hands :o))

My Problem

Not so much a problem, but an upgrade

My Fix

The upgrade went almost without a hitch. I think the guide could be expanded though to go beyond "assemble in reverse", as this is rarely the case! This is one of those cases.

My Advice

Take your time. Don't be rushed. But try to go start to finish in one shot so it's all fresh in your mind.

If you've removed the screws for your heat sink to reapply GOOD thermal compound (vs the crap that Apple poorly applies), make sure that if you put the screws with the springs under them in at say 10in/lbs, that you only put the screws that hold the fan down in at half that! Otherwise the next time you go to pull the fan out, you'll take the heatsink screw with it. Ask me how I know. ;)

My Problem

I wanted to add a SSD as my primary hard drive and use the one that came with the Mac as a secondary drive. I didn't want to pay Apple over $600 to get there.

My Fix

The repair went very well. The Mac Mini 2011 Dual Hard Drive Kit from iFixit is very well thought through. It has exactly what you need. The online instructions (page by page and video) are great. Everything worked perfectly.

My Advice

It would be nice if the instructions explained how to put the computer back together again after adding the hard drive. It wasn't always an exact reverse of the steps to take it apart. For example, it wasn't clear how to re-connect some of the connectors to the logic board and took me a few minutes to figure it out.

My Problem

Original disk was too slow for creating movies with iMovie.

Therefore I've decided to buy SSD Drive. Some compromise between capacity and price. Kingston HyperX 120GB was my choice.

My Fix

It was smooth and really easy, sometimes i had really bad feeling that both my hands are left :-) when I was watching that nice lady in video guide. That lady was doing the fix like it was really easy. It is, but you have to be really careful. Probably she has small hands :)... everything was smooth except putting back airport grill. But i got it there after few minutes. Also removing the fan was not just about two screws but I had to remove all of them first.

My Advice

To give any advice... Perfect guide, perfect shipping, really fast even though it was going through the Atlantic to Europe, Czech Republic and it has spent one whole day at custom office, it was delivered in 5 days ... pretty good score.

But to give you advice, if you expect more speed from SSD, don't be disappointed like me. I ran some tests for performance. And as you can see, 500MB/s for Sec Reading, but only 160MB/s for writing.

I've also installed Windows 7 to perform tests with Crystal Benchmark and i've realized that it is even worse.

But anyway even that score is much better than original disk which doing about 60MB/s :-) ...

My Problem

I wanted more space and a faster Mac Mini

My Fix

Easy - I had the video from Ifixit website on my other Mac, and did it step by step.

My Advice

Patience

My Problem

Wanted my stock 2011 mac mini 2.5 to fly.

My Fix

Following your instructional video, the steps were fairly clear and straightforward. Hardware-wise, it was a piece of cake.... software configuration on the other hand, especially Win 7 running in Bootcamp, that took me the longest time to get right.

My Advice

In the video, you twisted the power plug counter-clockwise and pulled out the power supply very easily. I got stuck here for a moment as the power plug would not budge, until I realized that there was a metal cotter pin of sorts preventing this type of removal.. I don't remember seeing this in the video.

Now, if I had a simple scenario with one OS, like just adding an extra drive, or replacing the 5400rpm HD, I'd be done in no time flat. In my configuration, I dual-boot between Lion and Win 7 and wanted the SSD as my new boot drive, so I used CCC and Winclone to copy the two partitions respectively (google for instructions). That wasn't so bad, but once I had a two-partition replica on the new SSD, I should have popped the SATA connector on the original HD and booted up only into the two partitions of the SSD to make sure the new Win 7 and Lion clones were happy.

Instead, I left both the SSD and HD drives connected (4 bootable partitions), and after booting into the old Win 7, it took over the C: drive scheme, leaving me to use another drive letter for the new Win 7 partition on the SSD. Problem here is that it's a bit difficult moving the C: drive to another partition without more finagling and googling for help. Another problem I faced was that both Win 7 partitions had the same drive ID which Windows didn't like. I would have saved a lot of time and grief by simply getting the SSD ready first, then adding the HD second as a secondary drive.

But as mentioned, the hardware installation was a breeze.

My Problem

Installed 120GB OWC 6g SSD in addition to the 500GB HD that came with the 2011 Mac Mini. The install went seamlessly. Simply follow the directions & you won't go wrong. Took approx 20 min to complete, because it was my first time tearing down the Mini.

My Fix

Installed 120GB OWC 6g SSD in addition to the 500GB HD that came with the 2011 Mac Mini. The install went seamlessly. Simply follow the directions & you won't go wrong. Took approx 20 min to complete, because it was my first time tearing down the Mini.

My Advice

Very simple to do. Anyone that can read & follow directions can do this.

My Problem

I wanted to install a newly acquired 750GB Seagate Momentus XT drive. Didn't want to use a external hard drive toaster to use it.

My Fix

The quickest 45 minute installation job ever. Combine it with the ifixit iPad guide and it was simply "In, Out, Done"

My Advice

Best thing to say, if you have an ipad, get that app, it's easy to abuse for any repair job. :D