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When the 2014 Mac Mini arrived I bought a late 2012 Mac Mini with the i7. I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and the two hard drives to two Samsung SSDs (500GB and 250GB).
The machine worked fine doing/relearning FCP, doing mostly light work a couple of times per month. Nothing serious. Then few years ago with the engine change of FCP, the performance dropped too much for my taste.
I don't remember when that was exactly. Basically the system was lightly used and even that stopped a few years ago.
I still have its box and cables, all in perfect condition.

I realize that if I sell it, I won't get much, at least I assume so with the M1 being better than expected etc.

So, your opinion on this. Would you sell it or keep it doing nothing?
I wouldn't mind replacing it with a new M1 system (mini, imac or laptop), but that would require a lot of money I don't really think I can afford to now. Any money from selling it would go to other (non essential) expenses.

I would love to get input on this, in case I forgot or I am missing something in my logic.

I do continue doing video editing, but I am using a PC (i7 5960X, 64GB RAM, GTX 1660 Super) and mostly Vegas software.

Thank you.
 
I also used my 2012 Quad Mini for Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, it was a great machine for a number of years. Upgraded to a maxxed-out 2018 Mini a year and a half ago and still very pleased with it (I use Windows and MacOS virtual machines a lot). I kept the 2012 Mini, connected four 5tb hard drives that I already had and turned it into a headless fileserver and Time Machine destination on my LAN. Works fine for that, so I'll just continue until it dies.

But really, you need to decide this for yourself, you're obviously very different from me. And I don't understand the part about not having enough money for a new computer, yet if you sold the Mini you'd spend the proceeds on "non-essential expenses". :)
 
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I also used my 2012 Quad Mini for Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, it was a great machine for a number of years. Upgraded to a maxxed-out 2018 Mini a year and a half ago and still very pleased with it (I use Windows and MacOS virtual machines a lot). I kept the 2012 Mini, connected four 5tb hard drives that I already had and turned it into a headless fileserver and Time Machine destination on my LAN. Works fine for that, so I'll just continue until it dies.

But really, you need to decide this for yourself, you're obviously very different from me. And I don't understand the part about not having enough money for a new computer, yet if you sold the Mini you'd spend the proceeds on "non-essential expenses". :)
I have long lost the ability of making sense to myself for some things. Good luck trying to. :p

I am guessing the Mini would sell for a couple of 100 euros. That's as far as I can explain as my brain says STOP NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

I'm hungry. I think I will make something to eat.

Thank you for your input. :)
 
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The 2012 quad cores were very solid machines, and the drives are user-replaceable. I'm using one from the generation before that as an iTunes hub and Time Machine unit, but I'm hanging onto my 2012 for the day the current one can't keep going.
 
My dual-core i5 Mini 2012 is my lounge web browser. I don't do a huge amount with it otherwise and nothing that would be deemed as particularly taxing but it runs Monterey, so I don't have security concerns, and I can't see how getting something newer is going to provide value for money right now. It's still a fine machine for what it does for me and I rarely hear a fan start up.
 
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