hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is my late 2018 Mac Mini now I
previously did a review on one of these but this is when I bought for myself
that has 8 gigabytes of RAM but has the bumped up specs everywhere else so
instead of spending $600 I spent about $200 to get 32 gigabytes of RAM so I
thought I'd show you how to install this and I'll walk you through this now the
first thing we need to do is flip it over make sure it's unplugged of course
flip it over and then we need to pry this off and now I have an eye fix-it
toolkit here this is not sponsored but I do prefer their tools so we'll use one
of their pride tools to open this up and then we'll go from there
so let's go ahead and pop this off just get under here like this and these
usually come off pretty easily so it just pops off and when you want to put
it back make sure Mac minis lined up and snap it back they have two different
size 4.1 millimeter here and 1.8 here and here so you'll see I bring this up a
little bit closer you'll see there's bigger ones here and littler ones here
now you want to organize these somehow I normally use this little magnetic mat
that's right here but you can use the top of this as well as a good organizer
so I'll use that since these are going to be a bunch of different types here so
let me get all of my tools ready and then we'll go from there so first I'll
start removing the larger screws here
now I'm going to arrange this from step one and go left to right top to bottom
so it lets me know where each screw came from
now the next thing we need to do is lift this up but you'll see there's a Wi-Fi
symbol here and you have to be careful you don't want to slide it too far out
of the way because this is connected right there I don't know if you can see
it but there's a little wire right there and we have to be careful of that and we
need to loosen it using this Torx screw right here so I'll lift that screw out
and then here we have to be a little bit careful because in here is the antenna
where I have to disconnect it so I can use the point of a spudger to pop that
out there we go and now it's loose so you'll see it just comes off like that
and we have to carefully reconnect it when we put it back together now the
next thing we need to remove our two screws at the top here so we have a
screw here and one up here so we need to remove those and that will allow us to
remove the fan
you'll see here's the screw for that
now we have two more screws that will allow us to remove this vent fan this is
the memory right here under this cage so there's a screw here and here
now these screws don't come out all the way they'll just back off and stop there
in rubber grommets so they stay in place they're a little bit easier to put back
when you're reassembling everything
there we go and then we pull out and go up and there's a little connector here
this connector we lift up to remove it and that's the fan for cooling now the
next thing is the power supply connector this is all incorporated in one with the
power supply being over here so we just pull this out straight up and that's the
power supply and then we have the front LED connector right here and we have to
carefully remove that now there's two larger screws don't do these here and
these are seven point five millimeter screws you use a t10 Torx driver to
remove those now that those screws are loose we need to slide the whole unit
out of the frame itself so we turn it around and we place our thumbs right
here we don't want to push on these fins we want to push on the outside until it
unclips and that actually was pretty easy to do so we just slide out the
whole computer like this we'll set this aside you'll see that's the power supply
right here and this is the whole logic board with the processor and everything
else on it so now we need to remove this cage so we can remove the RAM now for
this one we're going to use a t5 Torx to remove these screws
now that we have all four screws out we can slide this cage right off and this
probably brought blocks some RF frequencies and things like that so let
me set this aside now that we've removed the cage we need to pull these back and
these will just pop right out so pull this back in this back and they pop
straight up and then we'll just lift these out of here and this is four
gigabytes of RAM each and we'll replace it with the new 16 gigabytes of RAM so
we'll set this aside for now so here is the new RAM just to open this up here
and I'll link this in the description I just picked this up from new egg like I
said it was about $200 so here is the new RAM it's Corsair Vengeance ddr4 will
place it in like this and then we just pull these back and lay these down now
this is a little bit tricky to do this is not the best clips I have ever seen
so these are held in place just like this I really don't like these clips
they're just spring loaded on the side they don't feel very secure and if I
pull back this here a little bit you'll see just this little metal Tang holds it
in place and then the cage will keep them from coming out as well so again
we'll just do this in Reverse we slide this over here like this and then we
screw everything back in Reverse when I'm putting these back in place I like
to actually put them all in so they fit and then go back and tighten them down I
don't want to tighten them all the way down just to make sure everything's
lined up good and then go back and tighten them all down to where they
should be so this is tightened down now I need to slide this back into the
housing what I've found helps with sliding this back in is move this led
status wire up to the top or put your thumb on it to hold it gently and then
on the side push right here and then push it down and then push right here
and push it down then you can slide it in gently make sure your wires are in
the right place and then just click it into place and then we'll go back and
put the wires back where they belong
now I'll put the power supply wire back now we'll put the screws back in that
secure the motherboard to the housing
again one by one is how I do it and then I go back and tighten everything now
we'll put the fan back in place so we need to put the connector there first
now we'll secure the fan to the actual board itself with the screw here and
here
now we need to put the antenna back before we put the cover on and we can
get a little bit more room by pulling this out of here but I think we can do
it without that I have the antenna secured now I need to actually screw it
down so it stays in place now that the antenna is secured in there we just
slide this over and we need to put the screws back where they belong
now that all the screws are secure I need to take the bottom here and you put
the word Mac Mini facing down and just make sure that these little nubs here
line up with these screws and we're finished so we should be able to plug
this in and check it out so let me make sure that works now you can see I have
32 gigabytes of RAM to use and this should be a pretty good editing machine
I'm using it with an external graphics card of Vegas 64 in a razor corex
enclosure and it seems to work really well over Thunderbolt three and I should
have plenty of headroom as far as editing and things like that so I'll
link all the things I used in the description below so you can check them
out use the same RAM and everything else if you'd like to and if you have any
other questions or comments let me know in the comments below if you haven't
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is Aaron I'll see you next time