WOE. The Tivo played almost all of an episode of Top Chef Masters before crashing again.

Either I need to send this thing to Weaknees, or I need to buy a new one. Neither of which are options I can even remotely afford. Fuck.

Even with the ethernet connection...super tedious.

Being on one system for a very long time...at least in my life...leads to a lot of junk.

Deciding what to actually move is proving problematic.

Why not let the migration assistant move everything? The new box must have way more space than the old one.

I'm having trouble getting the assistant to work. I've got to read a tutorial for that!

So, the Tab doesn't charge with a standard charger with the screen on. Do other devices charge faster from a Tab charger, our is the device the limiting factor? Also, if I'm shipping blind, what are the specs the Tab requires? The Touchpad has different requirements too, right? Are there many other devices that can't "make do"?

Rob, and other Mac folk, have any of you added memory to a mac mini?

Everyone I've spoken to so far says 'don't go there!' it's too complicated, you'll get hurt, you'll break it, etc.

I watched a tutorial yesterday that shows it is definitely more in depth than it used to be, but not THAT difficult.

The only thing I don't have is a non-static surface.

Am I being too ambitious?

Having Apple add 8mg would cost me $240...doing it myself will be about $50.

Someone explain this to me.

The new iPhone is the 6th generation. It's running iOS 6 on an A6 chip.

And it's called the iPhone 5.

I don't care how pretty and fast and thin it is and I want one, that is just dumb.

I think it would have been weirder if they'd gone straight from the 4 to the 6.

bonny,

I haven't added memory to a Mac Mini, but I added a hard drive to an old school iBook, a process that required disassembling it completely and putting it slowly back together. It took several hours, but in the end I had a 400GB hard drive instead of an 80GB one and a lot more knowledge about my computer. (that computer died about 3 months later, but it was the screen that crapped out on me, nothing I did to it. And I knew how to get the hard drive out to transfer to an enclosure for later use!)

If you're not scared by the very idea of taking something apart and putting it back together, I say go for it. Use a wooden or plastic table (that's pretty low-static) and touch something metallic and preferably large pretty often to ground yourself and static shouldn't cause you a problem. Print out some detailed instructions (there are plenty of sites where you can find such things) and have a blast.

Knowing, of course, that if you do somehow break it, you're out of luck. I'd say in this case you have less than a 1/4 chance of destroying it. Mathematically, that means you have an Expected Cost of less .25*$500 = $125 (the $500 is what I think you'd have to pay for a replacement Mini), so since you're saving $190 - you should do it! Math says so!

I love the math, Gris!

And thanks for the specifics about a wooden or plastic table. I'm thinking I can put the unit on a thick wooden cutting board next to the stove. I suppose I could just keep my leg against the metal the whole time.

As far as I can tell from the tutorial I watched, the entire process includes a bit of brute force in the beginning...using a putty knife to pry up the underside...four internal screws (super tiny), moving three antenna ribbons, pinching a clip (fortunately my fingers have the advantage of being quite small) and then pulling the motherboard off. Actually seating the memory is nothing.

Honestly, the prying strikes me as the hardest part.

It would _kill_ me to lose the $400 I paid for the thing, but the idea of paying $240 more just for a memory upgrade seems ridiculous.