Author: Michael Crider / Source: reviewgeek.com
Apple announced a new Mac Mini last week, for the first time in four years. It’s the first major redesign in seven. But all that new speed and power comes with a price: $800. Here dies the “inexpensive” Apple desktop.
If you’re still clinging on to your older Mac Mini for fear of your bank account balance, there’s a cheaper alternative: upgrade it.
Mac Mini models rocking the Intel Core architecture are still getting OS updates, all the way to macOS Mojave. All of them use replaceable hard drives that you can upgrade to a cheap solid-state drive—and those drives are going very cheap right now. The 2011 and 2012 Mac Mini designs still support user-accessible RAM upgrades, too. Spend $50-$100 for some new hardware and a few hours of your time working on your machine, and it’ll feel like new again.
To test this premise I busted open a 2012 Mac Mini, already sporting an acceptable 8GB of RAM but using a slow, laptop-grade 5400RPM hard drive. I swapped it out with a 500GB Samsung 840 SSD that I wasn’t using. I’ll admit: this is not…
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