This Mac mini was DESTROYED

[@WillThePlank]

Editing skills = check Moments so gripping I nearly pooped my pants = check Fan bearing = buggered Original logic board potentially working with the other stick of ram = *redacted* Air = fryed Blokey = kebab Tony = Welsh It’s IMNC baby!!!!

[@WrestlingFace]

🤣🤣🤣

[@welshtony1]

That air sure was Fried

[@MrArmadaskier4123]

Tom, longtime viewer here, (dating all the way back to the before PowerPC Promise, I'm the guy who sent you those two X800 XTs) and I have to say that this video is an absolute masterpiece. I love the new editing style. Your channel has been underrated for years and you deserve so much for recognition for your work. Keep it up Tom, can't wait for the next journey you take us all on!

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

This comment is wonderful, thank you SO much! I still have the MDD with X800 XT, we will revisit one of these rainy days in the future on the channel.

[@theryanthomas]

The editing in this is absolutely spot on, Tom! I am in love with the sfx

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Wow thank you! 🙏

[@FadyMahfouz]

This new format is amazing. Keep at it.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Wow thanks!

[@draculamins3779]

hey mate been a big fan for a very long time. nice to see your still creating content

[@h.b.5577]

Really fun video, I enjoy the normal format, but was nice to mix it up a little. Fun fact with the 2010 mini is it's also the last one to officially support snow leopard and by extension the last one to support front row without any hacks or workarounds which combined with the optical drive (that could further be upgraded to a blue ray drive) made it the best choice for a tv connected mac mini for a good many years.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Ahhh of course! That's brilliant. Thanks for mentioning this, I'll make sure to bring this up in the next video covering this little guy.

[@chancelor]

I always love when you post! I’ve been watching you for years

[@MattNav]

I know I'm very late to the party on this video but I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and seeing your awesome content back on my screen Tom! Really well done and also fun fact I am watching this on my shiny new M4 Mac Mini which I'm really enjoying thus far.

[@jp790]

Did you try the original logicboard with just one Stick of ram ? 😊

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Haha was wondering if anyone would spot this!! I don't think I did, no. However, I'm holding on to the fact that the DVD did not eject and the keyboard did not remain active on the existing board, just to comfort myself a little when I start to question the logic board purchase 🤣

[@jp790]

@@ItsMyNaturalColour Let‘s leave it that way 😂

[@QuinsTechCorner]

Tom, I absolutely adore your content. It must be over 10 years now. Keep it coming dude. :)

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Thank you!!

[@samuelxander]

And after 15 years, he’s once again back!!!

[@Catchgate]

Love your videos, always happy to see another on a Friday! Have to say though, once you replace the logic board, is it the same Mac Mini?

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Thanks so much! 🙏 I guess not, as the logic board is the entire brain of the machine... but you could argue that the logic board is fairly useless without all the other bits such as; I/O panel, cooler, airport card, antennas, speaker, IR LED board, memory, drives, power supply, case... and so on. As it's proprietary, without the rest of the machine, despite being the brains of the operation, it's fairly dumb!

[@jacobpem7927]

Love the Mac mini it’s still my main server going strong for over a decade

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Such solid machines. You can't beat them.

[@WrestlingFace]

Good stuff boss

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Thank you!!

[@yogadebra]

Great video! Love your way of inquiring by doing and then asking google. I like to tinker with old tech also.

[@Xe4ro]

9:12 "Welsh man getting attacked viciously by a Mac Mini scared for it's life"

[@TheOriginalCollectorA1303]

Awesome! The 2010 is a very cool model, there’s enough space for an optical drive alongside everything else! It’s a great case design, at least the models after this one used the space efficiently for more drive storage. Great to see this one in action, especially by installing the OS from a DVD! This would be a good system for a variety of different Mac OS versions, especially if you need to quickly test something. Great video!

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

It really is, I've wanted to check one out for a long time. It's so tightly packed, love it. Thank you!

[@danshaw7231]

Another very entertaining vid, Thanks Tom!

[@JamesWhitmore116]

Absolutely love the new editing brilliant video 😂

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Thank you!!

[@bobfromsoireegames4309]

Superb computer and video, mate.

[@laurencejohnson4106]

Hello Tom, congratulations are due for your perseverance and well saved! 👍👍 A very enjoyable video!👍👍 If I recall correctly that MM., can handle a maximum of 16 GB., of DDR3 RAM.., do those fans come apart, if so, perhaps you could use the case from the old fan to fix the new one.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

I think so, I'll look to pick up 16GB of RAM for it, ready for the next video. Good shout on the fan, I'll see if I can make one good one out of the two!

[@laurencejohnson4106]

@@ItsMyNaturalColour If fans can be taken apart then sometimes a good clean and some new oil or grease on the bearings can revive them.

[@willibald.cornfed]

The Mac mini 2010 also makes for a real nice Windows XP gaming PC with Bootcamp, since it comes with Mac OS X 10.6 out of the box. Note that the versions above 10.6.4 dropped support for installing XP via Bootcamp, though you can still upgrade OS X to higher versions after the Windows installation (though 10.6 is kind of a sweet spot for me, as it still includes Rosetta for PowerPC games). Bootcamp only supports the 32-bit version of XP, and requires at least SP2.

[@willibald.cornfed]

Additionally, you‘re probably already aware, but the 2010 Mac mini was also available as a Server edition, which omitted the optical drive and had two HDD/SSD drive bays instead. If I’m not mistaken, the second drive was more difficult to get to for replacement.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

@@willibald.cornfed I knew about the server 2010, but must admit I've never thought of a 2010 Mac mini as a Windows XP machine. That's pretty wild! I'm very curious about that actually. Wonder if I should give it a go one day.

[@DerekWitt]

Didn’t expect to see Action Retro- or Druaga1-style jank. I like it though! :) And the Mac Mini lives again!

[@WelshTonyCars]

I was on the wrong channel, switched to the channel that had membership haha. Just wanted to say great video 😊

[@cleanycloth]

I had one of these for a while but in the end I wasn’t using it and popped it on eBay for someone else to have fun with. Lovely little machine it was, considering it wasn’t much bigger than an external DVD drive it was pretty handy for ripping/burning discs and the like.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Definitely. It's so neat and handy.

[@WattTheTech]

Temp sensor on that flex cable for drive

[@emmabentley7945]

Good to see you back tom! , if you remember me x hope you and your family are doing well xxx 😊

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Thanks Emma! Of course! We’re all good here thanks, hope you are too

[@agamemnon8163]

Wow Emma U R cute. Are you trans too? ❤❤

[@Behindstage]

OCLP to run the latest OS X?

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Deffo an option!

[@RandomBSOD]

I actually have in my collection an MC438LL/A (mid 2010 mac mini server) and does not come with the optical drive, so technically, that box picture "could" be correct 😅

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Haha very very true! I forgot to mention the 2010 server model. The sticker on the box specifies a newer machine, but it would've been really cool to get the 2010 server box.

[@tylerm5599]

Quality stuff man!

[@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P]

great video Tom

[@welshtony1]

Fair play Tom for getting it running. Shame you had to buy a new board. What would have been good for you is if you could compare the 2 boards and see if there was any obvious damage that in the future you could try and fix. Either that or maybe collaborate with one of them fixit channels that do videos on reparing stuff like this. Just an idea 😊

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Good shout, Tony! I'll keep the board kicking around, an opportunity may come up in the future to send it over to someone with the knowledge.

[@ThatTechLife]

1 min in so far, and you’ve upped the editing so much. Loving it!

[@TechWithMarc]

Not sure if you have a 2010 Mac Mini, or a 2010 Mini Jet Engine

[@emanuellopes6166]

The mini of Theseus, love the video, the new format not so much. Oh well, it is what it is.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Really glad you loved the video! The style and format won't be applied to everything. Since the beginning of the channel, I've always sprinkled a few episodes in that are a little more polished and tweaked. I enjoy sharing stories and making movies, as much as I do playing with old tech. It's lovely when they can come together

[@simonconquest]

Trigger’s broom.

[@davidambiguous4650]

Excellent video , fantastic quality /editing. These mini's are so compact and a little fragile , surperb job .👌10/10 ⭐

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Huge thanks! 🙏

[@ashleycox432]

Great video Tom, I love these 2010 minis. Though if I can give some constructive criticism, really not a fan of the production. One of the reasons I love IMNC and always have is the raw, real nature of the videos. I think the 'turn the camera on, do something cool and chat about it' format is really missing on KZbin these days. and while you've somewhat bridged the gap, the background music (which always drives me up the wall), sound effects and production takes away from the video. I end up just skipping through the video. I even preferred teh camera mic with the room acoustics and preamp hiss - it's more real, more 'guy messing with computers and recording it for entertainment'. I get you've put a ton of effort into it though.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Hey Ashley! I completely understand your comment. I agree, KZbin is really missing that feel these days. Don't worry though, that's not going away any time soon on my channel. The next video is set to be nearly 2 hours long and full of rambles.

[@ashleycox432]

@@ItsMyNaturalColour Excellent! The odd highly edited one is good to see. I think it works really well for sponsored product reviews and such.

[@stephenvalente3296]

I've got a 2011 that someone obviously ripped the primary drive connector off the motherboard just to get the drive out! On my "to be fixed one day" list.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Fingers crossed you get a good day to do that soon! The 2011 was a nice system, I owned one for a short time.

[@stephenvalente3296]

@@ItsMyNaturalColour I had a 2012 i7 Quad Core that I upgraded and sold on, but got another one a few years later. So many old Macs and little time to use them!

[@TalesOfWar]

I enjoy your use of Windows fail sounds on a video trying to fix a Mac lol.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Me too 😆

[@welshtony1]

Let's give it a slam - I see a new gif coming 😅

[@Ramsay291]

Rumours are a new design Apple TV size Mac mini this year.

[@willibald.cornfed]

turns out, those rumors were true 🙂

[@staso28]

Great and very entertaining video ;) Music, video effects, storytelling - just great !!! Thanks Tom

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Huge thanks !! 🙏

[@mhcr18]

I have to disagree sadly. Enjoyed the topic of the video but found the constant background music and some of the edits distracting.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

@@mhcr18 Thanks for letting me know

[@dartsummer]

i daily drive a maxed out 2009 mac mini with 8gb of ram core 2 duo and the geforce 9400

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Wow, nice! What OS do you run?

[@dartsummer]

​ @@ItsMyNaturalColour​ mac os 10.8.5 with chromium legacy web browser i mainly use this machine for watching yt videos and doing work anything intense i switch to my 9 year old gaming laptop with win11

[@HometownUnicorn]

Couldn't you have just bought a whole new Mac mini 2010 on eBay for about £55😢

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Yes absolutely. In situations like this, sadly it's not worth repairing. I did it for the video of course, which was fun and is rewarding to share with you all, but if I was tinkering with this stuff on my own I would definitely not spend that sort of money on a logic board.

[@protox07]

I like your videos

[@danielktdoranie]

Is it really fixing the computer if you swap out the logic board? More of a computer replacement as the computer IS the logic board. If you broke out an oscilloscope and a digital microscope and actually FIXED the logic board: now that would be impressive

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Of course! Component level repair is obviously much more impressive and actually requires skill. I'm just sat in my room following an iFixit guide and trying not to break stuff too much. I never pretend to be anything more than I am. These videos are for fun, but plenty of videos on here of people a lot more capable than me fiddling with this stuff.

[@jaimecosta2966]

Mayby there his nothing wrong with the original board probrably just menmory

[@CJaySaint]

u are the bees knees at editing 🤟

[@Vlamat67]

Ti seguo sempre....ma in questo video ci sono dei problemi: 1) sembra che tu abbia velocizzato le riprese video, questo impedisce la traduzione da parte del Tubo nella mia lingua.

[@ItsMyNaturalColour]

Oh really? I'm very sorry about that, no idea why. The video is at normal speed, except a few sections that I put in slow motion for dramatic effect.

[@daughteroftherisenking3165]

❤️🕊️👏