We don't normally cover much in the way of Mac stuff here (more's the shame), but I couldn't help noticing that lbodnar of eMac overclocking fame has already worked out how to overclock the Mac Mini! Like many of the Mac machines, the processor's speed is set by a number of 'jumpers' (actually surface mount resistors) placed on the motherboard itself. Once these jumpers have been located, it's a matter of working out combinations that set the multiplier on the CPU. Unlike AMD64 and Intel chips, it looks like the Motorola chips are not multiplier locked. Leo managed to get his Mac Mini from the default 1.25GHz up to 1.42GHz. He found it was possible to get the machine up and running at 1.5GHz, but it wasn't stable.

 You'd think that jumpers were fairly sensibly sized things, right? Well, in the Mac Mini, they're like the rest of the machine - TINY! Take a look at this picture to get an idea of just how small they are.

Read more at Leo's site.

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