When I upgraded to Lion, my macmini  started to drag. It seemed that  tis ball on the left was the basic cursor. Everything was slow. After some investigation, it seems that Lion needs vast amounts of memory just to run.

So I tried to do an upgrade.

My first call was to go to Apple store. Asked for the prices and their bits were gold made, since the upgrade was over 400€, wich is more than the computer itself.

More research was done and I found some memory chips from Kingston that were compatible. Amazon sells them for 37€, which is something more realistic.

The instalation was not really difficult. After umplugging the computer, turn it upside down, and open the round base, I was able to see the original chips. By pressing the two retainer clips to the sides, the first chip came out. After doing the same with the second one and I had reach half my journey.

The instalation is just  doing the same in the reverse order. Put both chips with a small tilt, press them down so they fit securely and then put the round plate back to the original position.

 Piece of cake. There are detailed instructions here.

After that, I restarted the computer, and everything goes fast as a rocket.

To be sure, and since I didn't use the official chips, I ran Rember, a program that do an extensive test on your memory. Everything was fine.

Im proud of myself

Reminders, iCal & iCloud

When trying to configure the sync between iCal and the new Reminders app in iOs 5, I found that even the phone and the tablet were perfectly sync, my mac was on his own.

Owning a mac mini, that I didn't upgrade to Lion seemed to be the problem. After some research, where I found that my mac would work with the new OS (around 70% positive reviews) I was confident enough to take the risk.

After the download, upgraded, and the fight with the "natural" mouse scroll I went to my iCal, and the Remiders where not updated.

After some research thru blogs and forum, that didn't give me any answer, since it seems that it just should work, I decided to stop the sync between iCloud and mac iCal (Settings | iCloud | deselect Calendar). After accepting the erase message, I re-enable them (Settings | iCloud | select Calendar), accept the message and run iCal

It worked.