Do the upgrade. I have a late 2009 Mini which had 2gb ram and 160gb HDD (full) as you do and it has been transformed with 8 and 750 HDD (not SSD), it was terribly slow before. I did the upgrade based on advice on here (I started a thread) when I was still running Lion, I upgraded direct to Mavericks. What I would add is that with Safari, Mail, Pages, Numbers running I typically only use max 6 of 8. Note there are lots of threads about Mavericks memory usage appearing to be "worse" this is because Mavericks uses spare RAM to preload things, it is more efficient. FYI I also used the demo iWork's9 method of getting latest Pages/Numbers.Hi!
Sorry to hijack this thread, but I think it's sorta relevant.
With the updated OpenGL on mavericks, anyone tried gaming yet? Specifically dota 2?
I'm on the fence on upgrading it to 8gb ram and a ssd, my current setup is a late 2009 mini, 2.26ghz, 2gb ram, 160gb, and it's getting realllllyyyyy slow on ML, even for basic internet surfing
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