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Question: Q: What OS is available for Mac mini (A1176 model)?
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Installing Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on a late-2006 Mac Mini (A1176)

Question: Q: What OS is available for Mac mini (A1176 model)?

Hola. I have a Mac mini circa 2007 that presently has OS v. 10.4.11. I am guessing that it would be worthwhile for me to upgrade OS, but not clear on what version is compatible. I also understand that I may need to add RAM (belive I have the standard 512mb).

Thanks in advance for the input!

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 18, 2013 10:20 AM

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You have a Mac with a Intel Core Duo processor, so you can install Snow Leopard. To check how much RAM you have got, open  > About this Mac, and check Memory. To upgrade to Snow Leopard, I recommend at least 2 GB of memory. You can buy more RAM at OWC or Crucial > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/mac_mini/intel

To upgrade to Snow Leopard, first buy Snow Leopard > http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard# Then, make a backup of your files, insert the DVD and upgrade.

After upgrading, open  > Software Update, and install Mac OS X 10.6.8, so you will be using the latest Mac OS X version for your Mac. OS X Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks require a 64-bit processor, and your Mac hasn’t got a 64-bit processor

Jul 18, 2013 10:24 AM

Click here, find your model in the list, and check the maximum OS version. If it originally shipped with 512MB of RAM, that will be 10.6.8.

Jul 18, 2013 10:22 AM

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Click here, find your model in the list, and check the maximum OS version. If it originally shipped with 512MB of RAM, that will be 10.6.8.

Jul 18, 2013 10:22 AM

To upgrade to Snow Leopard, first buy Snow Leopard > http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard# Then, make a backup of your files, insert the DVD and upgrade.

Jul 18, 2013 10:24 AM

So it shows I have 1G of RAM at present. Can I just purchase another 1G stick? or do I need to open it up and see what the present config is? Thanks.

Jul 18, 2013 10:48 AM

Open it because I think you have two 512 MB modules. In this case, you will have to purchase two 1 GB modules

Jul 18, 2013 10:50 AM

Click on the apple icon in the upper left of the screen and select About This Mac. The click on More Information. Go to the Memory topic and click on it to see the installed memory configuration.

Jul 18, 2013 10:52 AM

When at the About this Mac screen, click on More Info. The System Profiler will reveal the computer’s current RAM configuration without needing to open it.

Jul 18, 2013 10:53 AM

Niel is correct. Illaass, that’s only valid for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

Jul 18, 2013 11:02 AM

Indeed that is the case. Thanks.

Jul 18, 2013 11:37 AM

You are welcome

Jul 18, 2013 11:51 AM

I though that might be the case since I do not have any machines earlier than Lion

Niel is correct. Illaass, that’s only valid for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

Jul 18, 2013 12:11 PM

Yes, you can

Yes, you can upgrade the core duo or core solo processors and install Lion OS (10.7). Go slow because it’s tricky getting the heat sink off the processor and back on with the four plastic posts and springs holding down the heat sink. It’s easy to lose springs. The plastic barbs break off easily so you will want to get plastic screws and bolts ahead of time to replace the brittle posts that you break (I broke two of the four). The heat sink is also «welded» on to the old processor so be patient while you persuade the two to break apart. Also, the old thermal paste has to be worked off the new processor and heat sink a number of times using ArticClear remover and purifier. You can then add fresh thermal paste to the replacement processor (thin layer).

Heat Sink

Check the orientation of the heat sink also because the new processor is not oriented the same way as the original and if you use the outline of the old processor on the heat sink as a guide you will have to take the heat sink back off and turn it 90 degrees so that the fins are oriented correctly. Also, if you removed the heat sensor wire so that you can clean the heat sink don’t forget to plug it back in before you lock down the heat sink again.

Core 2 Duo processor

Finally the new processor does not always drop easily into the ZIF (Zero insertion force) socket as you might expect. In my case a little pressure was needed probably because some of the pins were slightly off from the time it was removed from its previous home. I installed a T7600 and 4GB of memory into a Core Duo A1176 (late 2006) Mac Mini running OS 10.6.8 which I installed before upgrading the processor.

Warning

The mini will not boot again until you remove one of the memory sticks, leaving 2GB. This is because you will need to update to Lion before updating the bios to 2.1 so that the extra memory will be recognized. It will see 3GB of the 4GB you install. At current prices it’s worth it. It’s a scary moment when the Mini refuses to boot up and such a great sound after you remove one of the sticks and try again.

I installed a new HD (500 GB) with OS 10.6 and 10.7 partitions, new memory (2 X 2GB strips), new PRAM battery, new optical drive also to extend the life of the mini for my granddaughter who wants to use it with her iPad mini.

Lion OS (10.7)

If you order Lion from the Apple Store you will get two emails after about 24 hours, one with a password, the other with a content code. If you try and use the content code to download to your upgraded mac mini it will tell you that your computer does not support Lion and it will not download the software. If you try it on another machine it will say that the code has been redeemed. You will have to call Apple and ask for another code then wait another 24 hours.

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Фирменная проводная яблочная клава и профессиональный монитор Митсубиши. (И клава и монитор заслуживают отдельного обзора). Диски с операционкой и офисом. Вот он. полный комплект)

Минимум места) В модели есть все возможные соединения и синхронизации с другими аппаратами. Интернет можно подсоединить как кабелем, так и через вайфай. Есть блютуз и FireWire, к которому подсоединен дополнительный жеский диск. Даже динамик в нем есть)) И самое главное, яблочная операционка 100% защитит вас от вирусов сама без всяких антивирусов.

так же в нем 4 юсб 2.0 и разъем для наушников/оптический выход, линейный вход/оптический вход. Вобщем поиграть на нем конечно особо не получится, но в остальном он все таже рабочая лошадка) Весит кстати этот монолитик более 2-х кг + столько же и доп жеский. чувствуется качественность собранного яблока. Да и фиг скажешь по фоткам что старичку уже 8 лет) так как ухаживать за ним из за его миниатюрности легко)

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Installing Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on a late-2006 Mac Mini (A1176)

This tutorial shows you how to get Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion) running on a late-2006 Mac Mini (model A1176), which officially can only support up to Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), according to this Wikipedia article. Although I have not tested it myself, the same steps would probably work if you have an early-2006 Mac Mini.

Hardware upgrades

Mac Mini 2006 comes with a Core Solo or a Duo Core processor, whereas Mac OS X Mountain Lion requires at least a Core 2 Duo, so you will need to upgrade the processor on your Mac Mini first before continuing. Although it is possible to patch the installer to run on a Core Duo, I would still recommend upgrading for a straightforward installation experience. Compatible processors can be found on eBay for as low as US$20 and available at a wide variety of speeds – 2GHz, 2.16GHz or 2.33GHz. A detailed step-by-step guide on how to upgrade the processor can be found here.

Optionally, to make the whole process worthwhile, it is also recommended to upgrade the RAM. Although the Mac Mini 2006 comes with the Macmini1,1 firmware which can only support up to 2GB of RAM and will not boot if more than 2GB is installed, you can install up to 4GB (2 pieces of 667MHz laptop DDR2 SDRAM) by updating the firmware to Macmini2,1, originally meant for the Mac Mini 2007 family. The steps are summarized below:

Download the newer firmware from here http://www.mediafire.com/?lfangrn69rxln3q and extract it
Put the extracted files in /System/Library/CoreServices/Firmware Updates folder. Check the permissions of the files, or just do a chmod 777 on the files to be safe.
Run the following command in terminal:
sudo bless-mount /-firmware/System/Library/CoreServices/Firmware \ Updates/EFIUpdaterApp.efi-payload/System/Library/CoreServices/Firmware \ Updates/LOCKED_MM11_0055_08B.fd-options “-x-apple-efi payload0-data” -verbose
Turn off the computer by shutting it down from the Apple menu.
Wait for a few seconds and press the power button until the power LED flashes. Wait until the flashing stops.
At this point the firmware upgrade is completed. You may see some distorted pictures on the screen, which is normal. Simply turn the Mac Mini off by pressing the Power button, and turn it back on
After a reboot, the Mac Mini should recognize 4GB of RAM.
If the machine doesn’t boot up or doesn’t recognize the extra RAM, check that the memory modules have been securely inserted. If it still doesn’t work, try to do a PRAM reset.

The machine can only use around 3.3 GB out of the total of 4GB that is recognized, due to limitations of the 32-bit processor. And while you are at it, take the time to upgrade the hard disk (a 2.5″ SATA drive) to an SSD, preferably 128GB or more. The final configuration, 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD, will make your Mac Mini 2006 machine performance more or less in line with the Mac Mini 2009, a much later model.

Preparing the installation

Before you proceed you will need to upgrade the OS on your Mac Mini to Snow Leopard 10.6.8, the last officially supported version. Next, get your Mountain Lion installer media ready – which can be a .DMG image or an actual DVD. After that, download MLPostfactor 0.3 from here, needed to patch the original Mountain Lion installer disk, which does not support the Mac Mini 2006, to run on your machine.

As at the time of writing this article (May 2015), MLPostfactor 0.3 only supports Mac OS up to 10.8.4. Versions 10.8.5 or above are not supported, so make sure that your installer is of the right version.

To make it easier to switch the boot partition without holding the Option key, you may also want to install a boot manager such as rEFIt.

Bypassing MLPostfactor limitation

Here comes the trick. The user interface for version 0.3 of MLPostfactor apparently only supports OS X Lion (10.7) and will refuse to run on 10.6. I tried to trick it by changing the system version number in /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist but things would still not work – MLPostfactor started but could not find Install OS X Mountain Lion.app in the Applications folder even though the installer was clearly there. A workaround would be to use MLPostfactor 0.2, which can run on Snow Leopard, to upgrade the system first to 10.7, and from there upgrade it to 10.8 by running MLPostfactor 0.3 again. I did not attempt this method because it seemed time consuming and most importantly, I had no installer disc for 10.7.

My relief came when I read this article which showed me how to use MLPostfactor from the command line. Apparently there is another MLPostfactor.app folder inside the original MLPostfactor app which can be invoked using the following command to patch the installer:

Surprisingly, there is no version check in the command line version of MLPostfactor and this method actually works to create the 10.8.4 installer partition. There are a few other commands that need to be done to patch the installer partition – refer to the original article for details.

Using MLPostfactor from bash script

A simpler way would be to use the MLPostfactor script written by pjherron available from github. With this script, the steps to upgrade to 10.8.4 from 10.6.8 on your Mac Mini can be summarized as below:

Download MLPostFactor 0.3 and unzip it to desktop
Copy the ‘Install OS X Mountain Lion.app’ folder from your 10.8.4 installer disc to the Applications folder
Create a 8 GB or larger partition on the target drive to host the patched installer. The volume label should be Install and it should be automatically mounted at /Volumes/Install
Create another partition, 20GB or more, on the target drive where you will install 10.8.4. Alternative, if you do not need the original Snow Leopard partition, you do not need to create this partition and can simply choose to install on the Snow Leopard partition later, losing all existing data.
Run the upgradesl2ml.sh script and give it 30 minutes to an hour to complete. When done, reboot the machine and choose to boot from the 10.8.4 installer partition just created
When prompted, choose to install 10.8.4 on the partition created in step 4, or simply overwrite your Snow Leopard partition. It is highly recommended to format the partition and perform a clean install – do not perform an upgrade as there are known issues.
Let the installer run. The process will either end in an error or a white screen – this is normal. Reboot the machine when this happens.
Choose to boot from the 10.8.4 installer partition again (not the partition where you installed 10.8.4 to).
When the installer finishes starting up, choose MLPostfactor from the Utilities menu and let it repair the partition where you’ve just installed 10.8.4
When the repair is done, reboot your system and choose to boot from your fresh Mountain Lion partition. It should boot normally
Done, you can now enjoy Mountain Lion on your Mac Mini 2006!

If the installation is successful, the About This Mac dialog should show something similar to below:

Common issues

In my experiment, the final system runs fine without major issues. Application such as Firefox, Skype or even xCode and the iOS simulator could run well. VLC player works well to play normal DivX or Xvid videos. The only major application that is problematic is Dropbox, which couldn’t even install due to error ‘no mountable filesystems’ when mounting the installer DMG. Tuxera NTFS can install and appears to work but will later cause random kernel panic when browsing NTFS partitions in Finder. I had to resort to removing Tuxera and learn to live with read-only NTFS support for now.

If your dock in Finder appears to be transparent after the installation, open Terminal and run the following command to fix it:

Read here for other useful tips and tricks.

Other than the above issues, my installation of 10.8.4 on the Mac Mini is stable and serves me well as my daily work machine. My next attempt would be to install 10.9 (Mavericks) or 10.10 (Yosemite) on this computer. As far as I know, although there are proof-of-concept attempts, nobody has managed to get a stable working system yet, presumably due to challenges in getting graphics drivers to work properly.

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