There's a big fan, and the memory sticks are not visible.Īnd here we have the key image. With the plate removed we can see the innards are quite different than what Apple showed us. There are some fiddly bits about doing so, and you should watch the videos below to see instructions. At this point your action is to remove the metal plate.
#Late 2018 mac mini ram upgrade upgrade
If you review the upgrade process of the 2014 Mac Mini, this is familiar. Immediately on removing the bottom cover you're shown this. As I've said before, Apple should be embarrassed over the Mac Mini. You open the bottom using easily accessible standard screws, and every part is easily accessible and easy to swap out. To disassemble the Intel NUC and replace any component is trivially easy. They rely on using laptop parts to build a desktop computer, and the Intel NUC is by all measures an excellent computer. Both the NUC and the Mac Mini are examples of very small desktop computers running at very low power consumption while offering tremendous computational performance. It is an involved process - that is unnecessarily complex.Īs I wrote in an earlier posting the Intel NUC series is an excellent implementation of the same sort of computer. What follows is the documentary evidence of how difficult the process is.īottom line is that Apple's marketing literature is lying when it implies swapping the memory sticks is easy. Yes the memory can be changed, but the process is not by any stretch of the imagination simple. The two videos I found are embedded below, and they show a very different picture. Notice that it looks trivially easy to open the bottom and slip out the memory sticks.Īt least two videos are available on YouTube showing the actual upgrade process.
Start by examining the above image that was supplied by Apple, and which graces Apple's marketing information about the Late 2018 Mac Mini.