Opening Mac Mini (Late 2009 model)

It turns out that it was pretty darn easy to open up my Mac Mini (Late 2009 model). All it took was a US$3.50 putty knief from Lowe's . I picked a standard flex putty knief with relatively sharp tip and one that's not too stiff, and it worked out pretty well. After examined the interior a bit, I closed it.

The only downside of opening the Mac Mini is that after I closed it up, I had to boot to the Windows 7 side, allowed it to force me to reboot, and then need to boot back to Windows 7 again, and waited for more than 15 minutes to let Windows 7 recognize all the external devices all over again. It's kind of stupid that while the Mac OSX side took no time to recognize everything, Windows 7 took SO LONG to do the same thing. But eventually it will be done, and all is well after then.