Plaidophile

Last night I decided to finally get around to replacing the (long-dead) hard drive in my old Mac mini (since I have an actual use for that computer again). I don't have a putty knife, but I remembered that method being very difficult anyway. So I decided to try out my bench scraper, which worked wonderfully.

The other trick is to rest the computer on its face (i.e. on the optical drive) rather than on its top, which made it much easier to separate the lid from the base.

After that it was really damn simple. So now I have a working Mini again, with a 120GB drive, running nice and quiet and ready for the bedroom. (I am still putting my old monitor to use. It's odd that buying something new actually makes my old, obsolete stuff more useful.)