smart: I have a mac mini and I'm trying to update my software to snow leopard but it won't let me because of lack of RAM. Is it even possible to download this software on a mini?Can you install snow leopard on a mac mini?The short answer is yes since new minis come with Snow Leopard...Is your mac mini intel based? Snow Leopard only works on intel based macs.The minimum is 1GB of ram and 5GB of disk space.Can you install snow leopard on a mac mini?Mac OSx Snow Leopard requires 1GB of RAM. I don't know which Mac mini you have, I would recommend going to http://www.crucial.com/index.aspx and looking up your Mac to see what kind of RAM it takes and how much, and then going to http://www.newegg.com/ and ordering some. They will have the lowest prices