Well, I picked up a hard-drive today to install within my Mac Mini. The idea of upgrading the Mac Mini is a pain in the ass, because of how small the system is. But in all reality, it’s really not that much different than upgrading a regular old desktop.

Once you’re able to pry the case apart, it’s a breeze — just unscrew a few sets of screws, remove the wireless antenna, and you’re golden.

As of right now, I’m about 5 minutes away from a clean install of OSX on a new hard-drive. I’m currently shopping for an external enclosure in hopes of restoring the contents of the original hard-drive.

We’ll see how this all works out — hopefully I didn’t lose too much data, but at least my entire music collection was on another external drive.

Update: All enclosures for 2.5″ sata drives are extremely ugly — why can’t they make good looking cases for these things?

This is certainly weird. When I first got my Mac Mini, I installed Windows XP along side OSX — I figured boot-camp would be a nice accessory if I ever needed/wanted to boot into XP for anything. After the XP install, I never went back into Windows. I had no reason to do so, thus I stuck with OSX day in and day out. That is, however, until tonight.

For whatever reason, my Mac Mini was misbehaving tonight. It was very laggy (and it’s never laggy), and applications just didn’t seem to want to work. I tried closing all of my applications (in hopes of running disk utility, and the like), but nothing seemed to work which would help my situation. So, I turned to turning off my Mac Mini completely by holding the power button down for several seconds.

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