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In 2006 Apple released their first generation of Intel machines. This range included the MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini and I bought one, brand new! Surprisingly for Apple machines, they were quite upgradeable, and so 18 years later and armed with eBay and money to burn, I decided to bring my trusty old Mac Mini out of retirement and finally let it live up to its full potential.

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Relevant Links:
Mac Mini 2,1 Firmware: https://gist.github.com/adur1990/adf3...
PCIe Adapter: https://geni.us/hlmD
Debian Net Installer: https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst

If you're interested in my experiments in installing various operating systems on this machine, as well as why I eventually settled on Debian Linux, there is much more information available here: https://ctrlaltrees.com/20240813...

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Chapters:
00:00 All About The 2006 Intel Mac Mini
02:09 Exploring The Original Boot Camp Windows XP Setup
09:28 Planned Upgrades
12:35 4GB RAM Upgrade With Hacked Firmware
16:03 Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz CPU Upgrade
19:08 Samsung 960 1TB SSD Upgrade & Accessories
20:17 Operating System Experiments & Windows 11 Test
22:24 Installing Debian Linux & llvmpipe i915 Modeset Driver Fix
27:31 PCI Express eGPU Using mPCIe Adapter
35:32 A Question To My Viewers