Other World Computing came through for me big-time, and my 2 x 1 Gig sticks of RAM were waiting for me when I got home tonight.

With 20 minutes til dinner, I shutdown the mac and unscrewed the drive frame, removed the fan cable and fitted the new RAM, replacing the somewhat sad 2 x 256 SODIMMS that were already present.

After reassembling the drive frame and plugging the fan back in (important!), I plugged in the cables and held my breath whilst pressing the power button. Pause, whirrrr, BONG! and the mac booted up perfectly first time. Excellent.

I rebooted and timed the bootup time at approximately 20 seconds which is very fast. I expect to not need to reboot, much like my powerbook, but it’s nice to know that it’s fast.

First impressions are the new upgraded mac mini is *very* fast. I imported an hour of DV from my Panasonic ZR25MC with nary a hiccup. Lightroom is also much better, with none of the ‘spinning beachball of death’ pauses that mar the experience on the 512 Meg version.