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I'm typing this comment on my 2012 quad core i7 Mac Mini with 16G of RAM and two 2.5" 2TB SSD drives. This machine still works great for all of my Logic music p
by spudlyo 8y ago
I'm typing this comment on my 2012 quad core i7 Mac Mini with 16G of RAM and two 2.5" 2TB SSD drives. This machine still works great for all of my Logic music production needs. One of the things I love about this machine is how I've been able to perform my own memory and disk upgrades over the years to keep the machine relevant.
Looking forward to reading the iFixit teardown to see to what degree folks will be able to upgrade the machine's memory and disk in the 2018 model. I'm most excited about getting four Thunderbolt 3 ports, not necessarily for the increased bandwidth (you don't need a ton of bandwidth for audio) but for the ability power external peripherals.
- saagarjha 8y agoYou can upgrade the memory, they’re standard DIMMs. It’s still unknown whether the storage can be upgraded.
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- ssijak 8y agoYou can plugin SSD disks over USB-C. Not the maximum speed possible, but good enough.
- TazeTSchnitzel 8y agoThunderbolt would be even better, right?
- spudlyo 8y agoFor sure. There are external Thunderbolt 3 NVMe SSD enclosures out there that can read and write in excess of 2000 MB/sec, which is reasonably close to what an Apple internal soldered-on SSD can do. Given the prices of internal storage from Apple (a $1400 upgrade for 2TB ouch!) I think this is the route I would go.
- saagarjha 8y ago> USB C Thunderbolt 3, actually.
- wj 8y agoI have the same machine and it has performed admirably over the past five years. However recently it has been locking p for two to three minutes at a time. Tends to happen either with Adobe apps loading or if a Chrome tab starts working hard. I'd love to get another year or two out of the machine. Maybe I just need to clean it. The most annoying issue with the machine has been the thunderbolt to dual link DVI which causes my primary monitor to not get video when booting a good portion of the time. I replace the cable annually but that seems to only help a bit. Basically that computer never gets shut off because I don't have time in the morning to plug, unplug, restart, etc. until it works. Possibly never restarting also contributes to the lock ups I mentioned.
- Synaesthesia 8y agoWhat sort of storage are you using? Often the best remedy is to get a new SSD. You can copy you entire OS and all over with the free Mac app Superduper
- acomjean 8y agoI have trouble with the apple dual link dvi adapter, but only on Linux where I need to disconnect the usb power cord and reconnect it when waking from sleep.
- vbezhenar 8y agoAlso I expect CPU to be upgradeable (not officially supported of course). They claim it to be desktop CPU.
- jiveturkey 8y agoi have the same, with smaller drives. so disappointed with sierra or high sierra when they made it effectively impossible to boot RAID-1.