Samsung Memory Mini Upgrade The Original

Is it common to have them removed and replaced, and if so what kind of RAM could go there Thanks in advance.

Samsung Memory Mini Upgrade The Original

In theory one could unsolder the existing chips and solder new bigger capacity ones, this indeed did use to be commonly done in the olden days.;) I remember some enterprising people doing this to upgrade the original Macintosh 128KB to a Fat Mac with 512KB, I even had this done to my own one back in 1985.

However newer logic boards, chips and manufacturing techniques mean that these days an ordinary soldering iron is totally useless for this purpose and you need tools equivalent to those used originally to build the logic boards, as such it is not possible unless you are a major manufacturer and they have no interest in doing this.

Any DIY attempt would merely destroy either the logic board or chips or both.

The earlier Mac mini models i.e.

An upgrade now would involve either a different later model Mac, or an SSD HD.

Late 2012 Mac mini Server (new) and upgrade RAM to 16GB; a second upgrade would be to get two SSDs.).

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Samsung Memory Upgrade For Mac Mini