Restoring Apple's FIRST Intel Mac Mini!

[@HughJeffreys]

I should really wake up earlier more often. Morning everyone!

[@tacocat1714]

Hello!

[@doge_boy7102]

Hewo

[@therobro5089]

Hugh Jefferys do you have any Mac restorations coming up

[@insanitylol]

Yay hugh

[@BitMan775]

It's two PM for me but good morning regardless!

[@turle8645]

3:03 I'm guessing this was recorded a few days ago lol

[@flamingkillermc2806]

Yes it was

[@Cjnator38]

Maybe he predicted the future

[@ahyaan2552]

200 likes

[@even___]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmnMi31moshmsLs

[@Quietimpostor]

Yo I'm actually watching this on the new M1 Mac mini!

[@emdotrod]

11:06 I'm sure you and Dankpods should make a Cashies adventure video together

[@K86Music]

Definitely, that sound 😂✌️

[@Frostbite..]

Sorta

[@nicholasbarton1174]

got that aussie sound.

[@chitraganeshan6243]

Yep

[@mediorhmt]

jir

[@mantasraph555]

The "Sick airtime bro" really cracked me up! The fact that you had gotten an injury is terrible news! I'm glad that it has healed enough for you to continue. I really enjoy your content as it has helped spark my new hobby, programming, which I love so much. Enjoying the videos so far! Good luck from Lithuania!

[@a_googIeuser]

54th like.

[@atlasalpaca8580]

2:26 dankpods would've said : "someone's been in here" In his even more than usual Aussie voice

[@mig_supremacy]

Bro lol

[@razorsz195]

@Ghost GamerX Oi mayt, sumwans cracked this puppy open before aye

[@derpsakry4464]

They should do a collaboration

[@derpsakry4464]

@Ryder Ryght no u are

[@Frostbite..]

Someone's been in here... SOMEONES BEEN IN HERE Fun fact the angrier aussies get the heavier the accent

[@mortalmyles]

11:06 i swear that sounds exactly like DankPods

[@peterwesterman2613]

UUUHHHH WERE GOING ALL THE WAY

[@Segatari]

australian accent :)

[@Magnedyne]

That's the aussie accent mate

[@doubles9988]

auxilary mode

[@LoisLPV]

nano

[@matthewlynn793]

I literally did this same exact upgrade earlier this year when the COVID lockdown first happened. I decided to put Ubuntu on mine and discovered that the most recent version that has an installer compatible with this Mac Mini is the 2014 version. So, I installed the 2014 version, then upgraded to 2016, then upgraded to 2018, which is where the machine currently stands.

[@PCgamingHD14]

Aaa amazing, perfect for web browsing and word?

[@doseofl0s]

Assuming you installed a Core2Duo: There’s Linux ISO’s that can install 64-bit versions on Macs with 64-bit processors but 32-bit EFI. Might be worth a shot. Google “Matt Gadient Linux ISO” and it should be the top result. Running Mint 20 on my C2D MacBook thanks to that iso

[@jeffreyborg]

That’s the same as the original intel Mac Pro. Have one of those and now it’s just my Linux pc. Just the 32bit efi weirdness.

[@solarbirdyz]

Yep. Upgraded 64-bit Core 2 Duo processor, firmware upgrade, maxxed out RAM (4G, 3G usable), 2T SSD, and now it's _our_ plex server.

[@MJ-uk6lu]

It supports latest elementary linux

[@celebratelife865]

The real magic starts at 10:27 😍 Please keep making restoration videos! We need to do all we can to encourage people to save old tech! ❤❤❤ from USA.

[@Vintuitive]

I have one of these, it was my first Mac. It's a great little machine!

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

My first Mac is a 2006 iMac I hit recently. I did pretty much the same upgrades to it as he did to this Mac mini, although it has a 500gb desktop hard drive instead of an SSD. It also has windows XP installed trough bootcamp.

[@itsAlphaFox]

"I'd be curious to know if Apple is going to introduce their own silicon processor in the next Mac mini this year"

[@erickwinchester1576]

Well he guessed that right

[@paulschacherl8476]

Should we.... should we tell him?

[@brandanheasley9608]

He wasn't wrong. 🤓🤓

[@effectiveark]

@@brandanheasley9608 yep

[@unicodefox]

Pretty sure it was already out by the time this video was released

[@mabbdoom4988]

The legend is back

[@peytonrichardson401]

Absolutely amazing restoration Psivewri... we love your videos!!! Please don’t stop uploading restoration videos of old electronic videos like this... in the future we won’t be able to upgrade or restore electronics like this because due to the lack of upgradeability, please try to find an older HP laptop to upgrade and restore... would make a cool video and change up your content up a bit. We would love it! Have a great rest of your night.

[@comicsanz97]

11:07 DankPods doing Mac stuff be like

[@gab_v250]

4:23 the Intel processor is like "mate, I'm outta making those Tony Hawk moves"

[@Lance0304]

eBay China Australia's CPU Intel

[@kobalt_ren01]

You can almost hear the special trick sound.

[@ColaCannon1]

why is no one talking about the fact that nathan predicted apple's m1 launch and the unified memory that came with m1 devices

[@valterns]

I feel like Psivewri’s main slogan should be: “Bababooey"

[@Frostbite..]

Baba bowie*

[@maxHeadroom325rayxerin]

*bababooey, dont disrespect howard stern m8

[@AKXNA]

Was it his first word tho?

[@maxHeadroom325rayxerin]

@@AKXNA its from howard stern

[@maxHeadroom325rayxerin]

@@Frostbite.. bruh its bababooey its from howard stern ya dunce

[@Evie0133]

11:07 This made me chuckle 😂

[@theformer1337agent]

funni aussie accent funni funni hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@mat_jov]

11:38 10/10 KZbin thumbnail making

[@chrisw443]

"Computational power" thats the best aussie accent i ever heard

[@mrcheese4596]

Psivewri: did it survive the surgery? *** ad comes up ***

[@t34b4g.99]

sameee

[@hotasianstepsister3039]

Same

[@MaliciousAlfa]

I absolutely love that thumbnail at 12:03

[@Alexander_l322]

Thanks I was getting worried when you uploaded stuff about minecraft!

[@jacobscudds]

It’s so cool how Apple computers went from being a computer to being a piece of art. Now all those old computers are art 😅.

[@marcuscook5145]

The Core Duo is a cool processor in that it's almost like the ultimate development of the Pentium 3.... It's essentially a dual-core version of the Pentium M, itself a revamped P6 architecture chip. Conroe borrowed from it also, but it's much more different from the Pentium 3 than is Yonah.

[@mica7191]

Which DAWs are best for newer Macs? Am a hobby lyricist wishing to make music to my lyrics

[@NicksLocker]

The setup itself still looks really cool today! I always loved the mac mini

[@deffahandle]

Man quality isn't quantity all of my loved youtubers don't upload regularly and quickly but they make the best videos good quarantine and don't worry we'll wait

[@gp3328]

I really love your hair! Brings out the Aussie in ya mate!

[@kobalt_ren01]

10:27 I wasn't expecting that! Makes me want to get a used Mac Mini, I keep hearing about how Macs are good for music production and it seems like a fun thing to have on the side.

[@mrpeebs]

11:07 im getting reminded of dankpods

[@ethanlittle776]

DosDude is brilliant. Allowing so many older macs to like even longer fuller lives. My 2008 MacBook Pro has no problem running Catalina and my 2011 on Mojave years after they were dropped by apple

[@JoeyRivers]

10:32 I have a Alesis synth too,.still trying to knock out a decent tune. Kudos on that great short burst off one of my favourite 80s songs.

[@scottarmstrong8585]

That is not a synth it's just a controller keyboard.

[@mahaelluri6825]

@@scottarmstrong8585 😂

[@navajeevanb1855]

Happy Diwali Bro. Love from India

[@mylifeisprecious7398]

why is nobody mentioning how well he played Take on me by A-ha ? from 10:32 to 10:44 :)

[@AndresSilva037]

LOL! This was one of your best videos. Loved the photoshop tips! Glad you're better and back to making videos. I hope I'm not the only one to say, more ad lib voice overs! lol Cheers!

[@exactlygoodyea1234]

you know why i like this channel while i was bored for the first time randomly i found this channel then i was hooked up like i never stopped watching this channel and now i like the name psivewri that is a nice ring to it even if you'll take 5 or 6 years for 1 million i don't care but still i like it even i am living in india i have no problem........but if you reply god bless you 100k is enough for you to be happy i didn't even get 1k but no problem cause i have this channel to love myself i love one these not only this others like Austins Evans , Hugh , Psivewri thank you and also everyone in the future might be like one of these people ! god bless everyone

[@SalvoDan]

I would stick with Snow Leopard. Loin doesn’t add that much capability and Rosetta is a must-have for a vintage intel Mac.

[@kc9scott]

Plus in 10.7 they got rid of the scroll arrows. Agree with you on Rosetta.

[@Impresso3dBlogspot]

Great to see you back!!! Hope tjings are all right now. Regards

[@maazalt1785]

Quickest I have ever clicked a yt notification. Love ur vids keep going 🙂

[@pujaastika]

I am repairing some stocks of my friend's powerbooks and an old macbook. It seems many problems in them, but I just enjoy the solving...because old macs are unique

[@sherbftfy2287]

2:47 "i unclipped" you mean "yeeted"

[@munnsie100]

Oh my god, the thumbnail masterpiece. Takes me back to year 7 in 2014, the MLG meme days... good old Aussie humour.

[@WiiUniverse]

4:13 to skip sponsorship

[@tweeleaf]

Thanks lol

[@pineapplevlogs1267]

Legend

[@placyd]

OK

[@rev7x]

Yesss you are back! Hope you are in good health.

[@tehcooler]

I like that Thumbnail its make me go.. Y E S

[@tehcooler]

and also S I C K A I R T I M E

[@BananaPlaysGames]

NathanPog

[@mattb1768]

This was an awesome video! I have one of these, and I have also bought a CPU etc, and was planning on doing this to mine. I would love for you to make another video about seeing what the newest OS you could get to work on it was and how you'd do that. Keep up the great work

[@silverXI22]

*Man I forgot the intel and PPC G4 mac mini look very similar I’m here since i picked up a PPC G4 mac mini with 256mb ram recently and its my first time experiencing a old powerPC mac.*

[@ATAKER66]

Geez, “uploaded 40 seconds ago” anybody else here?

[@peterwesterman2613]

2 minutes ago

[@PolosRavros]

God grant that Nathan stays always healthy! 🤗

[@OleJanssen]

This reminds me of the good old times when Apple products didn't suck.

[@poiiihy]

it also reminds me of when they did (powerpc g4)

[@theformer1337agent]

me too

[@Techie21]

your comment aged like milk. (Apple Sillicon)

[@OleJanssen]

@@Techie21 They make better processors now. So what? There are still plenty of other reasons why Apple sucks.

[@MrCooper83]

Ahh, this was my very first Mac. I remember buying this in 2009 for my birthday. Mine was a 1.83Ghz Core 2 Duo, with 2.5GB RAM and a GMA video card. My very first computer. I absolutely loved it.

[@Filippoupolitis]

11:26 you sound like the KZbinr dank pods

[@creativsync9261]

They are both australians

[@Helladamnleet]

Holy crap I remember when these came out and hating my full ATX. Then I grew up and realized up great it is to have expandability

[@nakkistromberg3946]

I clicked the video right when I noticed it. I would've clicked even faster if the thumbnail would have been edited like shown at the end though. 😂 Bruh!

[@DigitalHandle]

Is no one really about nathans piano skills? You got skills nathan

[@TheIrisCZ]

10:27 Meme of guy turning the volume to 11!!!!!1!

[@1br0.]

Finally your back in action ready to restore PC’s

[@t0raneko]

I've been using a 2,1 mini running 10.6.8 as a media server for many years. This video makes me think I should probably clean it.

[@Tevosilverfox]

Health First, Videos Second, Glad to see you back

[@SebisRandomTech]

For some reason I didn’t see this until today. Welcome back!

[@dpc4548]

I love the russel coigt commentary. That should come back at some point.

[@LSnium]

One of the first Psivewri video reccomended to me in a long time.

[@nicolasmaillouxorgue]

Hi, Snow Leopard user here. For the web browsing, you could use an older Google Chrome version, it's still usable today and far better than Safari, and also Artic Fox is one of the best and it's still being developed.

[@leontechtalks]

Psivewri you should make a youtube video of you playing music on that your really good man!

[@vijayendirangiridharan6113]

Kudos on ur music skills Nathan!❤️

[@zetsubou3704]

Dankpods, Psivewri, Hugh Jeffreys and Smoorez the Aussie tech gang

[@slicey80]

I work for a second hand IT company that's been in business since the early 90s, we use one of these on the order shelf as a marker, drawn on with sharpie saying "pick from here" with an arrow, the thing has been literally drop kicked before but we found a power supply in a box recently and plugged it in...the dam thing still works

[@Piipperi800]

I also have a Mac Mini I recently upgraded to a T7200 as they're dirt cheap. I really just use it as a file server tho. It also has a 240 GB SSD for some reason lol Btw this is how to install 10.7: 1. erase drive with 2 partitions (make sure you install 10.7 on the first partition so you can remove the second one later as we're going to use it for a temp install of 10.6), optionally you can use TDM and a second Mac to do this too. 2. Install 10.6 on the second partition (skip if using TDM) 3. Make a 10.7 USB installer and delete PlatformSupport.plist from /System/Library/CoreServices from the USB drive you created (the file might be in another location but tbh I don't remember where) 4. Install 10.7 5. Boot into 10.6 or TDM and delete PlatformSupport.plist from /System/Library/CoreServices from the 10.7 installation 6. enjoy

[@physalis17]

I'm glad you're feeling better.

[@ChristianRogers3]

There was only the G4 Mac Mini before the intel ones. Solid machines

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

currently watching Halt And Catch Fire and that made me see this video in an even more professional way

[@benpatch8692]

Dosdude is the GoAT for all lovers of vintage macs. Great video!

[@shemmac4700]

Macminis are a brilliant peice of hardware. Wish they were still as upgradable as this model.

[@zeniktorres4320]

When I bought my 2009 mac mini, some individual designed an air-filter to fit perfectly on the base of the unit. I still use this mac mini today, and those ports are totally free of any dust.

[@BaconSniffer578]

Those old cinema displays are still my favorite monitors. Seriously considering buying a 30.

[@MoominBoomin]

Good to see you back to making videos Nathan! Hope your hand is okay now!

[@postnick]

This is a trip down memory row. I had a 2008 Mini. I used it for many years. I pulled the DVD Drive out and put a second bigger HDD in there. I took it apart many times!

[@PlanesAndTechGuythatlikesspace]

Can someone agree that this is the most beautiful Mac mini design

[@SteelSkin667]

No joke my dad still uses one of these. It had a RAM upgrade and HDD replacement over the years, but it's still running the Core Duo CPU. I installed Arctic Fox as a browser, which is a rebranded version of Pale Moon (itself based on Firefox) that is aimed at older systems, including Mac OS X 10.6.

[@kc9scott]

Similar here with my mini. Thanks for mentioning Arctic Fox, I'll need to look into it.

[@EgoShredder]

My friend has one of these and after installing certain software, I noticed that one of my Thinkpads running the same software with a slower CPU, same / similiar chipset and RAM etc performed WAY better. Not sure why but the Apple Mini was struggling and it was using a fresh operating install too.

[@unfortunategamessimpforrhi9637]

I have a 2011 mac as my day to day computer

[@gerben333333]

I'm just glad your hand is getting better, great video again, keep up the good work!

[@fatkid5600]

YESSSSSSSSSS YOUR BACK!!!!

[@emlyndewar]

I loved these Mac mini’s. Had 2 of them over the years, both flashed to 2,1 and upgraded to T7400/SSD. Just wish it had something a little better than the horrific Intel GMA.

[@egbront1506]

Did the same with mine but unfortunately one of the RAM slots decided to die without warning. Seems like it's a common problem with the early Intel Mac Minis, which with the dire Intel graphics makes them a must-not-have.

[@phlogios]

Here's an interesting story about the mac minis of this generation: I had the base 1.66GHz model and attempted to use it as a HTPC, and it REALLY struggled with video playback under OS X (with 512 MB RAM). A DVD-rip of the X-Files could barely be played in VLC. Then I installed Debian (and also Xubuntu) with rEFIT, and it was SO MUCH FASTER, especially with XBMC. While cleaning the computer I accidentally broke one of the RAM slots, but even with 256 MB RAM debian outperformed OS X (in video playback). I had it for a few years as a media station, even playing through all of Super Mario 64 on it.

[@StuGhostface]

So happy that you’ve gotten batter! My KZbin isn’t the same with you!

[@jstoney6471]

Welcome back! Hope the hand heals well!

[@adrianbelzer5630]

I just got one of these for free from a friend. Got lucky and its in really good shape. Opened it up and its was super clean on the inside.

[@nathan_kie]

I am glad you are back , your videos are still perfect , 😉

[@wanderingaussies8172]

The first generation Mac mini was in fact the apple TV version 1 that was hackable. I had OSX Tiger running on my apple TV version 1. Also early version of Microsoft office. So this is really the second version.

[@X150t]

11:06 dankpods "you are now listening to the microphone on the mac mini"

[@osaelokailodibia1307]

Nice tip for USB-A and USB-B look for the USB logo and always pointed to the top and that’s how you plug in the USB stick if it’s still won’t plug-in you have it misaligned

[@rrp6405]

mac mini g4 1.42Ghz was my first mac ever. with 2 usb ports and usb broadband i quickly learnt the way of apple and had to buy their keyboard and mouse :)

[@vortexbobcat4556]

you really inspire me

[@RudyVisuals]

Fun watch! Wanted one of these so badly as a teenager!

[@Pacificbell]

I love the look of those old Mac minis I first started playing Roblox on a old Mac mini at my elementary school lol

[@abdrazeknakhli1274]

welcome back man

[@ians4564]

Great work there buddy! Loved the new video you had put up about the Mac Mini. I had a similar problem with an old 2009 iMac when it came to upgrading the MacOS on there. What I had done was downloaded the .DMG image of one of the MacOSes that you can get for free online and do an in-place upgrade to the MacOS directly onto it. As it worked for me and was able to get to High Sierra in the end, hopefully it should work out for you too!

[@kokobeyb]

Hope you’re doing great and recovering well. Glad you’re back 😁

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

When in doubt, install Linux, as browsers etc are still supported on older Intel platforms AFAIK. Great video!

[@dave4shmups]

Great video and great to see you back! I'm glad that you're feeling better!