Slash your way inside Apple's Mac mini
Photos You can break into Apple's new Mac mini, but it's nerve-wracking. However, if you do, you can up its storage capacity to one terabyte.
On Wednesday, the folks at Mac repair-shop and parts-supplier iFixit tore a new 20-inch iMac into pieces. Today, they did the same with the new Mac mini. And, after doing so, they gave the Mac mini and optical-drivectomy, added a second hard drive, and RAIDed up the pair to make a 1TB volume.
Popping open a Mac mini is not for the faint of heart. Unlike the iMac teardown, which requires only a full complement of Torx drivers and a pair of dent-puller suction cups, disassembling a Mac mini requires a putty knife, serious leverage, and nerves of steel.
Before we pry apart Apple's dwarfish desktop, let's take a look at its three main incarnations since the Mac mini's original release in January 2005.
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