Those new Core 2 Duo processors look really great. What if you bought an original Mac mini and think you deserve the benefit of the new CPUs? Well, you open her up and slap in the new one of course. .Mac user macaholicg5 has put up a photo set showing the steps.
Sadly, nearly all of the pictures are blurry. And he took pictures of the screen instead of just taking screenshots. There’s also the weird bit that OS X is identifying the chip as a Pentium M. Other than that, this is the first I’ve seen this upgrade being performed. If all these upgrades are possible, Apple may have a slight problem a couple years down the road when users are simply popping in new chips instead of buying new Macs.
[via Digg]
No problem. Computers are more than CPUs; they're motherboards, RAM, graphics chips, I/O devices, and hard drives. All or most of which need to be upgraded to take advantage of new systems, software, and features.