Quinn Nelson has released a highly informative teardown video for the new Mac mini on his YouTube channel Snazzy Labs, offering the most comprehensive look inside Apple’s smallest computer we’ve seen to date. Check it out below.

Yesterday we reported that the new Mac mini has modular storage, and YouTube channel dosdude1 has already opened up the base model and upgraded its storage capacity from 256GB to 1TB. The steps included removing the original NAND memory chips from the board with a heat gun, preparing the new NAND chips by balling them together, soldering the new NAND chips onto the board, and restoring the Mac mini to DFU mode.

While these steps are inconvenient for the average customer, the video proves that the storage in the new Mac mini can technically be upgraded without having to pay for Apple’s overpriced storage upgrade options when ordering the computer.

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