Catalina on a 2012 Mac Mini

[mr.steevo]

Just a check in.

Any 2012 Minis having issues with the Mac OS 10.15 upgrades?

 

[MadCar]

No issues on the upgrade but its running like a dog now for some reason. Just really bad performance, even streaming from Netflix is getting it upset and creating slow down / response issues for me.

 

[Boyd01]

Yes, there are a couple threads:

Mac mini Server (late 2012) refuses to sleep after updating to Catalina

Mac mini Server (late 2012) 2.6 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 2.23 GB Fusion drive, connected to my living room TV by HDMI as a media centre. Default system sleep settings worked perfectly under Mojave. I've been running Catalina on it since the first Public Beta and sleep has never worked since then. It's...

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No sleep after Catalina

My 2012 mini won’t go to sleep by itself after upgrade. Only problem so far.

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[Heat_Fan89]

Here's another thread:

Catalina kills my 2012 Mac Mini

Performed a fresh install of Catalina last night on my 2019 15" MBP 8-Core and everything works flawless. Tried to upgrade my Mac Mini as well last night, and when it opened up, Finder would crash every single time, and no programs would open. Made a bootable USB installer of Catalina, and it...

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[Heelpir8]

No issues on my 2012 i5 Mini with 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM.

 

[mr.steevo]

I’ve had no issues with my i5 16GB 256SSD.

 

[CSeye]

No issues. 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD for OS/apps/documents, second internal 1TB SSD for sample libraries, USB external SSD and mechanical drives.

 

[fricotin]

16 GIG, no issue except that it won't go to sleep by itself.

 

[Said Tayar Segundo]

I don't know if there is a corelation but last week, a few months after installing Catalina, Mac Mini started to restart unexpectedly. I could only solve by leaving only 1 of the 8GB sticks in either slot. The odd thing is that he does not accept both sticks (which are identical Kingston) at the same time but the slot seems to be indifferent