Ive been reading abit on forums and stuff on the web and Im planning to try to "upgrade" my mac mini. ATM its a 1,83GHz Core 2 Duo 1GB Ram, 80GB HD. It seems that the motherboards supports alot more than this and Im considering to try my gear from my homemade win PC with the following specs: 2,4GHz Quad Core 2 Q6600, 500GB Samsung HD 7200RPM, 4GB Ram. I dont know bus-speed but are hoping it will just work lol. Then im going to try boot camp and have both OSes on it. If this works i can throw the whole PC shit away. Anyone else tried this before?

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Originally posted by palm Ive been reading abit on forums and stuff on the web and Im planning to try to "upgrade" my mac mini. ATM its a 1,83GHz Core 2 Duo 1GB Ram, 80GB HD. It seems that the motherboards supports alot more than this and Im considering to try my gear from my homemade win PC with the following specs: 2,4GHz Quad Core 2 Q6600, 500GB Samsung HD 7200RPM, 4GB Ram. I dont know bus-speed but are hoping it will just work lol. Then im going to try boot camp and have both OSes on it. If this works i can throw the whole PC shit away. Anyone else tried this before?

Running xp via bootcamp works flawlessly. The installation of drivers is very straight forward.
Just pop the mac os dvd in after finishing xp/vista installation, and it will install all the drivers.

works great that boot camp yeah. awesome. what do i need PC for now lol? Wonder how Hitman Blood Money will run on this. Next up is to try switch to the bigger HD, 500GB 7200RPM.

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Originally posted by palm works great that boot camp yeah. awesome. what do i need PC for now lol? Wonder how Hitman Blood Money will run on this. Next up is to try switch to the bigger HD, 500GB 7200RPM.

i doubt you could slap the Q6600 in the MiniMac though, if thats what you were thinking.

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lol it was what i was going to try but thats the last thing im going to try. First HD, then RAM, then CPU. XP runs fast as hell btw on Mini dont know why but it seems like the hardwareparts is more suited for each other that on my homemade PC is. I think this is goodbuy PC forever.

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Originally posted by palm lol it was what i was going to try but thats the last thing im going to try. First HD, then RAM, then CPU. XP runs fast as hell btw on Mini dont know why but it seems like the hardwareparts is more suited for each other that on my homemade PC is. I think this is goodbuy PC forever.

RAM wont fit, HD probably will though.. but depends on the size of it 2.5" or 3.5"

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I produce on a Mac Mini 1.83 Core Duo with 2gb ram. Everything runs fine here with an occasional hiccup when too many AU's are loaded but normally can have about 35-40 channels and around 8 busses without any trouble.

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the mac mini is a killer machine :-)

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i opened it up and found out (unsurprisingly though after a second thought lol) that both RAM and HD of course was alot smaller than the devices in my PC which i planned to use. So much for warrany hahaha. Luckily I managed to put it together again

it has nothing to do with warranty I think. These are standard laptop spares. The hd is SATA 2,5" and the ram is DDR2 SODIMM. My macbook has the same.

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