Booting up this particular Mac takes about four minutes on the hard drive, and about thirty seconds with the secondhand SSD. And before you start, you’ll want to make a Mojave recovery disk, which is a bit tricky too.īut the results are impossible to deny. If you wouldn’t be comfortable, say, popping open your newer smartphone to replace the battery, you might want a local repair shop to tackle this for you. I’ll admit: this is not an easy process, with a lot of tiny, tightly-designed pieces to break. I swapped it out with a 500GB Samsung 840 SSD that I wasn’t using. To test this premise I busted open a 2012 Mac Mini, already sporting an acceptable 8GB of RAM but using a slow, laptop-grade 5400RPM hard drive. Spend $50-$100 for some new hardware and a few hours of your time working on your machine, and it’ll feel like new again. The 20 Mac Mini designs still support user-accessible RAM upgrades, too.
#HARD DRIVE FOR 2011 MAC MINI UPGRADE#
All of them use replaceable hard drives that you can upgrade to a cheap solid-state drive-and those drives are going very cheap right now. Mac Mini models rocking the Intel Core i5/i7 architecture are still getting OS updates, all the way to macOS Mojave. If you’re still clinging on to your older Mac Mini for fear of your bank account balance, there’s a cheaper alternative: upgrade it. Here dies the “inexpensive” Apple desktop. But all that new speed and power comes with a price: $800. Apple announced a new Mac Mini last week, for the first time in four years.
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