Hi, I happen to have my first ever Mac—the Mac mini 2009, lying around. Thinking of giving it a new life and installing 8gb of RAM + SATA II SSD for some performance gain. The plan is to patch it so that it runs Catalina, or Big Sur whenever that is available.
Does anyone have any experience with a similarly aged Mac running Catalina / Big Sur. Could you comment on the performance and if it's usable for general computing stuff (email, web-browsing, word-processing, YouTube, etc), specifically on Catalina / Big Sur? Read somewhere that GPU acceleration is not available with these older models and I'm curious if it affects the performance much?
Would appreciate some insights before I commit to upgrading the components. Thank you.
Does anyone have any experience with a similarly aged Mac running Catalina / Big Sur. Could you comment on the performance and if it's usable for general computing stuff (email, web-browsing, word-processing, YouTube, etc), specifically on Catalina / Big Sur? Read somewhere that GPU acceleration is not available with these older models and I'm curious if it affects the performance much?
Would appreciate some insights before I commit to upgrading the components. Thank you.