What year mac mini to purchase
What is the best year for a mac mini in terms of maintainability and upgradability?
I was about to purchase a brand new one from Apple but I discovered they were essentially sealed shut in terms of user upgrades and maintenance.
I'm thinking that the best thing to do would be to purchase as late a model as possible without getting one that cannot be easily upgraded. But, I don't know what year Apple began making units that were difficult, if not impossible, to upgrade.
I'm OK with anything but desoldering things off the motherboard. I want to get as fast a unit as possible so my plan was to purchase a low end unit, on eBay, and install a SSHD and RAM upgrade. I intend to use it primarily for running XCODE for development purposes.
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Good Question!
by Dan
I would recommend a dual drive setup SSD for the OS and swap/paging space and a standard HD for your files (not Fusion) or a dual SSD if you can swing it. As you are doing coding I would go with 16 GB of RAM.
by Dan