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 ==== Common Hacks and Upgrades ==== ==== Common Hacks and Upgrades ====
-  * TBC+  * Before 2014 most Mac Minis had upgradable RAM. 
 +      * Mid-2010 and Mid-2011 models could be upgraded up to 16Gb of RAM, albeit "officially" they only supported up to 8Gb. 
 +      * Mid-2010 models needed an EFI ugprade first to do this which came with MacOS 10.7.5. [[https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/mac-mini-aluminum-unibody-faq/how-to-upgrade-ram-memory-aluminum-unibody-mac-mini.html|(source)]] 
 +    * First gen (Early/Late 2006; Macmini 1,1) models //could// be upgraded to essentially become a Macmini2,1 by swapping out the CPU / RAM and updating the EFI, but only The Hard Way.™ [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220103070021/http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,874.msg15441.html#msg15441|Tutorial here]]. The needed [[http://www.mediafire.com/?lfangrn69rxln3q|EFI update files]] were still available on mediafire on 2025-08-14.
  
 ==== Gotchas ==== ==== Gotchas ====