Little bit of background:
I'm selling my mid-2012 macbook air, and converting to an iPad Air (Gen 1) for school use. I really want a desktop at home, so I'm looking to go the Mac Mini route. I already have a keyboard and trackpad - just need to find a good monitor. I've been trying to study the forums and articles to decide if I should go the route of purchasing one of the newer models, or going with a refurbished one (2012 model) I found (Refurbished Mac mini 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7) due to all the talk that the new 2014 models aren't that impressive.
I don't edit movies or pictures and I don't play any games. I just use it as a computer - and the MacBook air has served me well for all the web browsing, schoolwork, downloading of music/movies/streaming that I've done. The only thing I might do is eventually install some time of ubuntu (now that I'll have some more HDD space)
Does anyone recommend going with the older model or going with the newer ones since I'm not a huge power user? The only worry about going older is if it will be able to have Yosemite, and future updates.
And lastly here is the link to the refurbished one I keep talking about:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD388LL/A/refurbished-mac-mini-23ghz-quad-core-Intel-Core-i7
I'm selling my mid-2012 macbook air, and converting to an iPad Air (Gen 1) for school use. I really want a desktop at home, so I'm looking to go the Mac Mini route. I already have a keyboard and trackpad - just need to find a good monitor. I've been trying to study the forums and articles to decide if I should go the route of purchasing one of the newer models, or going with a refurbished one (2012 model) I found (Refurbished Mac mini 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7) due to all the talk that the new 2014 models aren't that impressive.
I don't edit movies or pictures and I don't play any games. I just use it as a computer - and the MacBook air has served me well for all the web browsing, schoolwork, downloading of music/movies/streaming that I've done. The only thing I might do is eventually install some time of ubuntu (now that I'll have some more HDD space)
Does anyone recommend going with the older model or going with the newer ones since I'm not a huge power user? The only worry about going older is if it will be able to have Yosemite, and future updates.
And lastly here is the link to the refurbished one I keep talking about:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD388LL/A/refurbished-mac-mini-23ghz-quad-core-Intel-Core-i7