It's not the i5 (although the 1.4ghz ULV i5 is a bit low end for any desktop) it's the slow HDD that makes them feel so sluggish especially in yosemite...
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It's not the i5 (although the 1.4ghz ULV i5 is a bit low end for any desktop) it's the slow HDD that makes them feel so sluggish especially in yosemite...
Then, more than likely, it is Yosemite that is poor. There is no need for him (or me) to run it. I am thinking about backing down, especially if I can find a dock app that imitates Yosemite.
Yes, even the 1.4Ghz i5 on the entry model is faster than what the OP has right now. But for performance, it is a boat anchor when you try and run a VM with windows. The CPU will choke on trying to do video editing. Heaven forbid he tried to do something like re-encode video to H.264. This is in part that the CPU just doesn't have what it needs and that unit ONLY comes with 4gb of RAM. I have tried to run Yosemite with that much memory and after 3-4 days with apple on the phone and taking it in to a Genius, they concluded that is just doen't work well. I am back to Maverick with my mini and it works like a charm.
And the second part that I don't quite understand. You go on to say buy a mini with "user serviceable HD and RAM" I guess you have not looked at what apple is selling now for the mac mini. The unit has memory that is soldered into the motherboard and the hard drive and assembly is just about impossible to get at. There has not been any of the 2012 mac mini's for sale on apple.com for quite some time. And all the people who own them know that they are the last of the user serviceable ones and are asking quite often more than the original selling price for a used unit that is 2-3 years old. No, there is not a deal there to be found.
I never said new or refurbished. I said just find A Mac Mini. That is the reason i said it like that. I know Apple is killing what little upgradability and internal customization that is left.
Not ALL the people who own them know anything, let alone that they have a collectors item. There are plenty of 2011 and 2012 Mac Minis on Ebay. I admit I did not realize the prices had stayed that high. I paid 450 for my 2012 Mini 2 years ago off of CL.
I have not considered the Mac Mini precisely because there is no way to upgrade RAM or the HDD to be an SSD or Fusion drive without paying a rather high premium.
Thanks for the advice concerning the 27 inch iMac with RAM and running a VM with Win 8.1 where required.
Thanks for the advice concerning the 27 inch iMac with RAM and running a VM with Win 8.1 where required.