Like most I was bummed out that Apple didn't announce new Mac Minis or any other machines last week.
I looked into the possibility of building my own Hackintosh but the cost and support issue makes me leery.
That being said I'm back at my mid 2010 Mac Mini wondering if it couldn't just be upgraded. I use the Mini for Time Machine backups, home automation and entertainment (iTunes, Netflix, etc.). I have never seen the CPU go over 50% however I have seen the beachball a lot lately with Sierra and the new version of iTunes. Wondering if it is just a memory or hard disk access issue or both.
I have the Mini maxed out at the support 8GB RAM but saw that Other World Computing is selling 16GB kits for this model. Has anyone bumped their Mini to 16GB?
Also, since the hard disk is 6 years old I wouldn't be surprised if it were to fail sometime soon. Has anyone installed an Intel SSD drive in a Mini? Did you experience any issues?
Thanks.
I looked into the possibility of building my own Hackintosh but the cost and support issue makes me leery.
That being said I'm back at my mid 2010 Mac Mini wondering if it couldn't just be upgraded. I use the Mini for Time Machine backups, home automation and entertainment (iTunes, Netflix, etc.). I have never seen the CPU go over 50% however I have seen the beachball a lot lately with Sierra and the new version of iTunes. Wondering if it is just a memory or hard disk access issue or both.
I have the Mini maxed out at the support 8GB RAM but saw that Other World Computing is selling 16GB kits for this model. Has anyone bumped their Mini to 16GB?
Also, since the hard disk is 6 years old I wouldn't be surprised if it were to fail sometime soon. Has anyone installed an Intel SSD drive in a Mini? Did you experience any issues?
Thanks.