Late 2012 mac mini better
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Instead of bogging down with the spinning beach ball while scrolling through these apps, things glide quickly. I couldn't believe the speed increase! She has over 20,000 photos in Photos, many thousands of emails in Mail, and a large iTunes collection. I took my time performing the upgrade, and all went well. I figured that, if I screwed things up, she could have my mini.
Late 2012 mac mini better upgrade#
I had a 1 TB HDD lying around, and I ordered OWC's 120 GB SSD upgrade kit, planning to upgrade my wife's mini with a Fusion drive. I watched the OWC videos on performing the upgrade and decided I was up to the task, having been an electronics technician while I was in engineering school in the 1980s. I also was concerned by the number of stories by people who had ruined their minis while performing the upgrade. I'd considered adding SSDs to our minis, but I wondered about the wisdom of upgrading five-year-old computers. I wanted a 5K iMac but couldn't justify spending that kind of money right now. They're still selling for top dollar on eBay, so I once again considered selling mine. By 2017, though, our minis, thanks to their 5,400 rpm spinning hard drives, had become annoyingly slow. In 2015, I bought a new MBP and intended to sell my Mac mini, but I never did, figuring it was good to have a second computer as a backup, and maybe a home media center.
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She only does basic stuff, so I bought her a refurbished 2012 Mac mini i5, 2.5 GHz, with 500 GB HDD. The next year, my wife's 2009 white MB also was showing signs of aging. I wanted a new MBP, but I couldn't afford one at the time, so I bought a refurbished late 2012 Mac mini i7, 2.3 GHz, with 1 TB HDD. In 2013, my early 2008 15" MBP had gotten annoyingly slow. This depends on your needs, of course but with that caveat.