A tip for anyone doing this. The logic board exhaust fan connectors on these are notorious for lifting off completely when you attempt to remove the 4-wire fan connector plug from them. A combination of 9 years of thermal stress and a weak mounting. If this happens, they can be soldered back but its a fairly expert job. To prevent this happening to you, use either superglue or a glue gun, dependant on what you have available. Take the glue and, on 3 sides of the "C" shape of the logic board connector, carefully drop some glue to form a 'bridge' between the side of the connector and the logic board. The idea is to create a union that will help secure the connector to the board. Leave this to fully cure, and then carefully insert a thin spudger beneath the 4-wire connector and lift up, very very gently. You should then be good to go.
@arfrans2 ай бұрын
Fantastic! No missing steps, every detail covered in this video! Thanks a lot!
@Timbershades6 күн бұрын
Very helpful - thank you very much!
@ronshansby44389 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation. Thank you. Your analysis of the performance is a plus and answers a lot of questions about this Mac Mini.
@Nowise10Ай бұрын
Great video, helped speed up my machine and worked perfectly.
@antoniosousa_619 ай бұрын
@jendbe, I’ve just made the hardware upgrade like you did with success. 💪 Thank you very much for your support. 👏 Next step will be the sonoma upgrade using your tutorial from the next video. I’ll keep you posted. Regards, António
@jensdbe9 ай бұрын
Sounds great! Good luck with the upgrade.
@MangKokow8 ай бұрын
Wow, how come I'm not knowing this before! Thanks for the info 🤘
@hm_098659 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. Great content.
@laurencejohnson41069 ай бұрын
Patience is definitely required when working with Mac Minis, so well done!👍👍 In my opinion, soldered on ram., is a bad idea. I fit the mechanical drives into external enclosures so that they can be used for storage.
@onixtreasure44086 ай бұрын
Great video. Only apple can make complicated what should be simple, I mean this hd socket. Fortunately they didn't soldiered it like the ram.
@Marius_CN8 ай бұрын
Bonjour. Très bonne vidéo. Merci.
@LubomirGeorgiev4 ай бұрын
Yup makes sense. Since its laptop chip its only 2 cores so about the performance of desktop i3.
@glootfrootswootАй бұрын
I repurposed my 1TB as a Time Machine drive. While not a fast drive the storage could still be put to good use
@anmishelАй бұрын
Можно и без флешки установить последнюю поддерживаемую макос для этого мак ( и это sonoma) зажав option+command+r сразу после включения и он сам из инета стянет ее. пользуйтесь.
@flyingplayer99933 ай бұрын
I have never had a Mac or Apple product, I am thinking of getting the late 2014 model since the 2018 models are still quite expensive. My question is, does Sonoma run well on it? I see some people complaining about overheating and a laggy interface. Also, since I've never used it, is OpenCore that reliable and safe for private information on it? I'm asking since it's nothing official from Apple.
@jensdbe3 ай бұрын
Depends a bit what you want to do with the machine. Sonoma does run quite nicely but the 2014 model was never really a very powerful machine. 10 years later you definitely start to notice that.
@flyingplayer99933 ай бұрын
@@jensdbe Just basic stuff. My major concern would be how secure it is to use oclp.
@nicodeb85597 ай бұрын
why not just add an nvme ssd and leave the HDD in ? This way you don't have to open it up completely and still get both to use ?
@jensdbe7 ай бұрын
Yeah but that comes with the additional cost of the adapter (and waiting for it) and I still had that SSD laying around anyway :)
@imacattackau56356 ай бұрын
@@jensdbe Mine must have been upgraded by Apple as it has both M.2 SSD and the 2.5 SSD.
@Moustafa114 ай бұрын
@@imacattackau5635Apple offered an option at purchase back then of getting a Fusion drive, which is a hybrid drive that includes both an HDD and an SSD/flash drive. Although it looks like NVMe, it’s not and is actually an Apple proprietary design so it won’t fit NVMe drives.
@DivineVegan3 ай бұрын
@@imacattackau5635that's the fusion drive
@iqbalshah_musician8 ай бұрын
Nice❤❤❤
@mattbaker72846 ай бұрын
Great video, is there a limit for the storage of this Mac mini?
@ernestgalvan90379 ай бұрын
At 03:10 , where did that lake/mountain wallpaper come from? It is gorgeous.
@jensdbe9 ай бұрын
That's the default macOS High Sierra wallpaper as far as I know. Just Google "apple high sierra wallpaper" and you'll find it :)
@ernestgalvan90379 ай бұрын
@@jensdbe …thank you, i will have to track that down.
@ernestgalvan90379 ай бұрын
If one installs an MVMe drive, will it run at a higher rate than the SATA drive? And if so, can the Mac boot from that faster NVMe drive?
@jensdbe9 ай бұрын
Yes and yes. You can boot from the NVMe drive, when using such an adapter and the speed will be higher (depending on which NVMe SSD you choose) than what is the maximum of SATA. Just not sure with the limited CPU power if it is worth it.
@ernestgalvan90379 ай бұрын
@@jensdbe …ok, thanks… though I don’t understand your reference to “limited CPU power”. As to speed, the NVMe is probably sitting on a version 2 PCIe structure , so about a five-ten times speed boost over SATA. Very worthwhile , in my opinion…
@nandobeatsmusic3699 ай бұрын
@@jensdbeI just hit my Mac mini in angry like I always do but today I went to hard and I damage the apple logo and it went inside the Mac mini I don’t want else I could have damage and I turned it off now and want to fix the logo before anything bad happens to it what do you think I can do to get that logo back in place ? With out spending a arm and leg
@kosmicjedi8 ай бұрын
Hi there, I would like to ask an amateur question, please: Currently, I am looking to get a refurbished Mac, and my choices are between a Mac mini, late 2014 with 16 GB RAM and 512 SSD hard drive VS Apple Mac Pro (trash can) Intel Xeon 2.7 GHz 12-core 2.70 (2013) Please kindly inform me which one of these 2 will be good for video editing, Photoshop, and After Effects projects? Thank you very much in advance. Currently, I have an old iMac since mid-2011, and it has served me well so far. Please note that I have no interest in getting the M1 or M2 versions or any current desktop iMacs at the moment.
@ElVecioGian4 ай бұрын
Excuse me, at the minute 17:30, when you boot from SSD after installation of Sonoma, the boot time is real or you have speed up the video ? In my Mac Mini 2014 the boot time is much longer...
@jensdbe4 ай бұрын
It's definitely not real time. Takes a lot longer normally :)
@jankilo36829 ай бұрын
Great job but did you repaste the cpu ? Bench be a bit higher .
@jensdbe9 ай бұрын
I didn't do that but looking at other tested Mac Mini Late 2014's with the same CPU, I see very similar mumbers. So unfortunately the difference wouldn't be very big.
@ANTIPLANETRECORDS7 ай бұрын
i brought up the base of off the IR sensor connector on accident. Is it bricked and nothing I can do to fix it?
@suekuan154028 күн бұрын
I have a 4gb ram version. Do you think it will still run or should i go use the nvme route instead of the 2.5" ssd. Thx😊
@blackholegaming699 ай бұрын
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@JQUICK217 ай бұрын
Using an external hard drive is better I think....no need to tear into the Mini like this.....
@Dwq476 ай бұрын
I have a 2012 Mac mini… so you would recommend a sata SSD? Which would you recommend? Trying to modernize my old Mac mini and update it.
@LubomirGeorgiev4 ай бұрын
As long as you are experienced/comfortable with opening computers, it pretty easy.
@fernandaa2742 ай бұрын
Hi , can i create the Sonoma flash drive in a different mac?
@jensdbe2 ай бұрын
Sure, have a look at this video I did which covers that: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8mghNh0rt-Xd3U.html
@PedroPizza-pv9mh2 ай бұрын
Whta about a 1.4 ghz 4 GB Ram Mac Mini? Will it pay out? Or is it a waste of time?
@jensdbe2 ай бұрын
If you can't upgrade the memory, 4GB starts to be really sluggish for day to day use.
@PedroPizza-pv9mh2 ай бұрын
it payed out. I use it as media center and it is quite fast compared to the old HDD.
@jensdbe2 ай бұрын
@@PedroPizza-pv9mh glad to hear. Would be a pity to see it being unused.
@P455x3Ай бұрын
4gb ram 💀
@em89697 ай бұрын
Is it easier to add nvme add with an adapter
@jensdbe7 ай бұрын
Not necessarily easier but the advantage is that an NVMe drive is (a lot) faster and that you can use both the NVMe drive and SATA drive.
@nikolaystepanets24836 ай бұрын
NVMe drives are more stable than SATA SSD and don't have problems with Trim command
@raphaelmanuel52844 ай бұрын
Where you get the installer?
@jensdbe4 ай бұрын
I cover this in a separate video. You can find it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8mghNh0rt-Xd3U.html