2014 Mac Mini RAM and CPU Upgrade

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In this video, I perform both a CPU and RAM upgrade on this Late-2014 Mac Mini. This particular model was originally a base model, with a 1.4 GHz Core i5 CPU and 4GB of RAM. I upgraded the machine to 16GB of RAM, along with a 3 GHz Core i7 CPU, making it a MUCH better machine.
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@Arcadium1177 Жыл бұрын

Unbelievable cool video. Thank you for all you've done for the community of old Mac users, your patches have helped me keep so many of my machines useful!

@thetomfrederick Жыл бұрын

In 1986 I cut out the 64k of memory from my first Mac and soldered in 128k with guidance from Dr. Dobbs Journal. Thought that was pretty cool but my oh my how times change! Brilliant work, sir, kudos to you!

@kirishima638 Жыл бұрын

No Mac shipped with 64k of memory.

@LUKAS-bb4jc 7 ай бұрын

@@kirishima638Maybe it was an Apple

@dec_ves2190 4 ай бұрын

@@kirishima638 kilobites of memory

@yosholock 26 күн бұрын

@@kirishima638macintosh

@darrellmajek250 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, just wonderful I've never seen anyone do this before, this man is very talented

@JSYBen 2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing they sold this machine up until the end of 2018. We still have some of them in our labs. and we specced them pretty well at the time, they had the 2.6ghz i5, 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. They run terribly today on Monterey, and it's officially supported! Yet we have 2012 i5 iMacs with after-market SSDs added and they run like a dream on Monterey using OCLP.

@HoloScope 2 жыл бұрын

Because it's a low tdp laptop dual core vs a socketed quad core with 65w to 80w wattage.

@heavypizzas6004 2 жыл бұрын

They may possibly run a little better if you wiped and clean installed all of them with Monterey.

@asphixmx Жыл бұрын

I am writing this from a Mac Mini 2014, 2.6ghz i5, 512GB SSD and 8GB Ram... and I am not agree with your statement "they run terribly today on Monterey". As a matter of fact, it runs smooth. I do Photoshop and Lightroom, Internet, Excel with no problem at all.

@petv5386 Жыл бұрын

@@asphixmx mine too... its only a 4g RAM and even with HDD.. still working very well...

@brookerobertson2951 Жыл бұрын

I have the 2012.. it has a quad core I7 and 16gb of ram.. the 2014 was a step back I didn’t know what Apple was thinking.

@bloeckmoep 2 жыл бұрын

From a tinkerer perspective it's amazing what you did there, complete desoldering/reballing/resoldering plus programming of bios, I draw my hat and fully heartily applaud this work and dedication. From a non mac users perspective... why is there no slot for ram and a socket for cpu? Yes I now, new ultrabooks are also guilty of soldered on cpu/ram/ssd, but up till 2013/2014 the larger notebooks still had replaceable cpu/ram and ssds. And desktops, we don't have to talk, they are fully upgradeable in most cases.

@oscarcharliezulu 2 жыл бұрын

It forced you to buy the larger capacity models or ram upgrades at purchase at a significantly higher price, as you could never upgrade. I dare say it perhaps also made them more reliable being soldered ,but I’m not sure to what extent - if any. I was waiting for the 2014 to come out so I could upgrade for a much earlier model, and when it did and I saw the soldered ram and cpu, I immediately bought the just superseded quad core whose ram and storage you could upgrade - and having two more cores was a lot faster.

@sheldonkupa9120 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, good linux knowledge and non Apple hardware makes life easier. But i love my 2012 airbook which rocks Pop OS and honestly, for many years there were no comparable pc notebooks and still today build quality is impressive. So i understand the attraction of Apple devices.... And the M cpus are impressive again. Wait for mature linux support😉

@JtagSheep 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the older Macs had the ability to change ram and hdd but they where finicky with what ram would work it was nice though, I guess its now a bit of both upselling the higher models instead of user upgradeable plus smaller form factors making it harder to replace.

@rajdmohan 2 жыл бұрын

I can say regarding the CPU as to why they moved away from CPU's in both windows Laptops and MacBook's, One is that it results in an overall thinner devices and the other is from DDR3 based devices - the Signal integrity dependent (rise and fall time of high speed digital signals like DDR3 is very small order of few pico seconds - having a socket CPU adds metal socket pins adds more impedance discontinuities which in turn results in delays / corruption /slows down of these rise / fall times. with a soldered BGA CPU you minimize these impedance anomaly- this is wht they eliminated the socket cpu approach ).

@transportatitsfinest.2483 2 жыл бұрын

@@sheldonkupa9120 what's an airbook?

@darlancoura Жыл бұрын

I've watched this in absolute awe. This is a great work of art I'll never be able to perform. Well done, mate! Keep it up! I'll just save money for my new Mac Mini M2 by the end of the year. There's no way I'll find someone as competent as you to do such a thing and still make it affordable.

@mr.number9279 Жыл бұрын

Amazing project. It's incredible what we can do with older tech nowadays.

@baconfister 2 жыл бұрын

So happy to see you gave the CPU bigger balls.

@joepisciottajr 2 жыл бұрын

Holy hell! I thought I was cool upgrading my 2012 mini with 16G of RAM and 256 SSD. This is hardcore. Well done! I love my mini! Have Big Sur on it and for daily home stuff it works great. At my work office I have the latest Apple gear. EDIT: Geekbench 704 / 1726 with the i7 / 2.6Ghz / 16G / SSD / 4000 Graphics.

@abduujabor 2 жыл бұрын

Why haven’t you upgraded it to Monterey yet?

@r.r.9848 Жыл бұрын

@@abduujabor well you’re not supposed to get Monterey for Mac mini (late 2012) since it’s not “compatible” (which is a stupid lie apple made up) for it. But the thing is, you actually can get it! It’s just that you have to use open core legacy patcher (which is easy to use) and you need a 16+ USB flash drive to be able to use and get Monterey. Here is the link to the video of it happening. It’s actually works and it’s legit. Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8mdgpqptZrbpn0.html (Edit) I also recommend having 16 gb of ram (which is easy to change and it’s the most a Mac mini can take) to make the experience faster.

@gjvdspam 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. Fun to watch. I ordered a preheater, flux and 4 ram IC's from Ali expres, gonna give it a go once everything has arrived.

@gjvdspam 2 ай бұрын

YES! It's a win. Thank you so much

@L1ad 28 күн бұрын

@@gjvdspamwhere i can get links?

@WarriorsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

dosdude, you are one epic person. That was a lot of work for such minimal gains and something tells me that wasn't why you upgraded.

@karl.weaver Жыл бұрын

You NEVER fail to amaze me with your skills!

@johnpaulbacon8320 Жыл бұрын

Great job on the hardware upgrades and restoration. I'm sure the switch to an ssd will make overall everyday tasks faster and quieter and cooler operation

@Fran-op8tc 2 жыл бұрын

That Geekbench improvement doesn't seem exciting, but doing math it is almost a 50% better performance! That's a lot!! Great work 👏👏

@tamashayesaba 2 жыл бұрын

Reballing that apu is the most difficult part because of the warping you mentioned, on the 10th gen intel had to glue a metal support bracket to the corners to avoid It

@10MasterM Жыл бұрын

Unbelievable, jaw-dropping stuff, I'm absolutely blown away. I take my hat off 🎩

@TheSulross 2 жыл бұрын

well, this is definitely an upgrade that no else is going to do

@mndlessdrwer 2 жыл бұрын

That really will be breathing new life into that machine. I think the i7 from that generation was a proper hyperthreaded quad core even in the 13" Macbook Pro, though it may have still been the lower powered variant. Still, it should work wonderfully with the upgraded processor and memory. Always fun to watch people keep these older machines viable with electronic wizardry. Edit: I was mistaken, the i7 u series from that generation was only a dual-core processor. How disappointing. Still, just getting a substantially faster clock speed will make a world of difference for that mac, as will the upgraded graphics. At least as far as general computing goes. Intel Iris was never a gaming powerhouse, but it's perfectly capable for general UI tasks and video playback.

@ToothlessJustin 7 ай бұрын

Great video for someone like myself. I’m looking at purchasing a 2014 Mac Mini so now I know that, whilst the ball-ache of doing this process myself isn’t terribly difficult (merely mundane), it does require a set of unique tools and isn’t cost-effective unless scaling the operation. Alternative, spend £20 extra for the 2.6GHz model regardless of RAM and upgrade the whole unit a year later to the 2018 model. Thanks!!!

@Fetucinee Жыл бұрын

Very impressed by dosdude1's skill and precision. This is way above my pay grade. Will say this: I've a 2012 Mac Mini, the last Mini where both RAM and drives were socketed (not soldered) and so upgrades there were plug and play. The CPU of my old Dell Latitude was not soldered either so upgrading that was also simple for this klutz. All of which is to lament that newer tech, with glued cases and soldered everything, requires dosdude1 level expertise to service.

@jimboblivesforever 2 жыл бұрын

I still have one of the 2014 i7 Minis as a daily driver, but unfortunately only 8GB Ram, which starts to become a problem these days. Also, while it has a factory SSD, that one is very slow - slower than a budget sata SSD these days. Upgrading the SSD could help, soldering more ram myself is far out of my league, and getting someone else to do it would be expensive enough to rather save up for a used 16Gig M1 mini. Still, it's awesome to see that it can be done. Great video, dosdude1 !

@sebulica93 2 жыл бұрын

i think the surface tension of the solder is strong enough to warp the hot chip when you take it off the board with the vacuum pump.try next time to flip it next on a paper towel with tweezers from the sides.i have removed cpus with tweezers aswell with 0.5mm metal blade tool.but overall you are a pro :D .keep up the good work

@MrPnew1 2 жыл бұрын

More great work thanks Collin. Any chance of showing us the board pre-heater that you use please? Thanks EDIT - I found the answer in one of the comments. Cheers. hot air station, Puhui T8280 preheater, Madell QK853 preheater, and Aoyue 4545W nozzle for doing the large BGAs.

@xxlllklllxx-COD2856 Жыл бұрын

Dude, you are amazing...I have been following yours videos since you started making the patches for old mac...

@joshuajones9296 Жыл бұрын

I'm on a late 2014 mac mini with 4gb ram and an ssd. I think the ssd makes all the difference for me. This computer as is with the ssd is fantastic. Thanks for the information and the how to. You're super talented.

@AI-Consultant Жыл бұрын

how u running the ssd? externally booted? make sure you use the usb 3.0 ports not the 2.0 ports, 3.0 is 10x faster.

@legado804 Жыл бұрын

Mate you are a wizard of computing

@TradieTrev 2 жыл бұрын

Love your work mate! Total boss effort!

@MrPnew1 2 жыл бұрын

us Aussies love DosDude hey Trev :)

@raos156 Жыл бұрын

I love to see so many fans of this great man. He deserve all the compliments.

@MrPnew1 2 жыл бұрын

Going to need this video now. Knowing nothing about Mac mini's I bought a 2014 Mac mini, base model. Opps, soldered on RAM :) Going to fit this into a G4 "lampshade" iMac. "

@Aaronage1 2 жыл бұрын

The performance improvement wasn’t as dramatic as 1.4GHz vs 3GHz would suggest because of turbo boost It’s really 2.7GHz peak vs. 3.5GHz peak. Roughly 30% more performance from 30% higher peak clockspeed 👍

@MrKillswitch88 2 жыл бұрын

Never dismiss what a little bit of cache will do for performance which will add a few percent ontop of any had from clocks alone.

@AI-Consultant Жыл бұрын

@@MrKillswitch88 how do i make my 2014 mac mini handle more garageband audio tracks and plugins, i went with an external usb 3.0 samsung 870 QVO and that brought me to 400 MB/s read writes which helped, but i am looking for more tweaks?

@MotownBatman 2 жыл бұрын

Hell Yea! Great Work Sir. New to Apple due to the M1, after finding your tutorials I traded a pile of old PC Boneyard collection for some 2011 & 2012 minis; just to learn how apple did things. Thanks for the help!

@pepeiyojlor 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting, but too difficult for a nebbie. You are a master technician. It have been super interesting for me to known the technologie for smd circuits reparing. Thanks.

@Blackfyr Жыл бұрын

Have you considered marking the chip outline on the board before you remove the old cpu to help align the replacement chip?

@rodrigoandradedutra9232 Жыл бұрын

Man I think u came from another planet.. 👍👍

@diegomelo7872 Жыл бұрын

That was amazing principally the reballing step, congrats!

@evandroflorscuk1116 4 ай бұрын

Wow, your video is very good! What you did is a work of art! Very nice!

@murtiuso Жыл бұрын

Wonderful. You are not an ordinary person, you are special.

@f1ggyc 2 жыл бұрын

What this machine deserves! I used to have one of the base model 2014 Mac minis, it was one of my first computers, and I have to say I think it's probably one of the worst Macs Apple ever made. Especially with the 5400rpm hard drive and it is slooooow. Even on the stock operating system it's hard to bear and it got much worse with APFS (and I assume further updates after that, I got rid of mine and switched to Windows!)

@mrcyborg9216 2 жыл бұрын

Why did you not install windows on it and put a ssd.

@BladeScraper 2 жыл бұрын

CPU and RAM may be limited in these models, but just upgrading to an SSD would make a maaaaaaasssive difference.

@as-1982 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is very slow. It is a good practice to test your patience. It takes about 8 minute boot time with Big Sur. I replaced the MacOS with several Linux distros. And they run very fast. I'm glad I didn't give it to Apple to be recycled.

@heavypizzas6004 2 жыл бұрын

My experience is a bit different. I just bought this exact model for $140 USD (very cheap in Australia.. we pay more for all our technology, sadly) and first thing I did after booting into the 5400rpm HDD was put an existing 500gb Samsung Evo 850 SSD into it. Took 45mins tops, used a steel coat hanger to remove the motherboard, and it is absolutely awesome now for what I need (a second Mac for general tasks - email and web browsing). No slowness now, and I have to have quite a lot of apps open to stress it. It even runs Monterey natively (unlike my better specced mid-2014 MacBook Pro), which is apparently faster than Big Sur or whatever the most recent one was called.

@as-1982 2 жыл бұрын

@@heavypizzas6004 Can you add an portable SSD by using USB cable and boot from it? By the way, how do you open the Mac mini casing?

@thecrowester Жыл бұрын

legend just to align those memory contacts. and those cpu solder balls!

@ken1w Жыл бұрын

Amazing how it’s done. Very skillful. Quite interesting.

@jamespeterson7125 2 жыл бұрын

First video of yours I've seen. Absolutely phenomenal job. I pulled the BIOS chip off of my 2014 Mac mini main board, dumped it, modified it, reflashed it, and resoldered it, but this is so beyond any of that. My only question is what is the motivation for this over buying something used (even the exact model you're upgrading to) or some other option? The challenge? Learning? Fun? Because I can't imagine any cost "savings" having to buy a Mac donor board + RAM chips, no less the stencil, etc. and sundry equipment I assume you already had and time required.

@jamespeterson7125 2 жыл бұрын

@@anshadedavana Absolutely it's not a for-profit endeavor. In a different comment he said "I'll either just keep them around, or give them to friends of mine who want them."

@andre-le-bone-aparte Жыл бұрын

Reverse Engineering!! --- It's an ART and Science that doesn't get enough appreciation. - This guy is a gem!

@PackCracker66 2 жыл бұрын

Apple: we are going to solder our RAM and CPUs so that you can’t upgrade your old computer and you’ll have to buy a new one. dosdude1: you sure about that?

@Biedropegaz 2 жыл бұрын

it is wiser to buy a pc which can be easliy upgraded, buyinf mac is a sign of stupidity

@rsmage1219 10 ай бұрын

Nice Target Display Mode IMac’s. I use two 24-inch Apple Cinema Display with my 2014 Mac mini i7 at home. And yes I know about OCLP 😊

@Ralpha1961 Жыл бұрын

His skills and tools we be valuable when the SHTF.

@octo925 Жыл бұрын

Amazing as always. Apple probably needs to hire you to do prototype manufacturing/testing and repair.

@zacharyschwanke7160 2 жыл бұрын

Collin, what is the progress of you installing 32gb of ram on the 2015 15” mbp? And upgrading the vram to 4gb?

@freemediabg 2 жыл бұрын

Looks nice and professional, except the part with cleaning the CPU over a DVD player

@clav7711 24 күн бұрын

wow i think this is your work.. GREAT!!!

@Andrem022 8 ай бұрын

You are watching a master at work 🫡

@artysanmobile Жыл бұрын

A little like having a Time Machine. Over the years, I’ve always bit the bullet with whatever cannot be readily updated, and I’ve never once regretted it. My Macs serve me for an embarrassingly long time mostly due to that up front cash drop. Apple’s campaign against people like me means no new Macs. I’m still in the early to mid 2010s with all of my computers except for the iPadPro I’m typing this on. They are all business tools for me so upgradability is essential. Colleagues marvel at the age of machine I use with modern OS and more importantly, 2023 Pro Tools versions. Now if I could just shave a few pounds off my MBP 6,2 for flying.

@jpht1964 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible that such an easy upgrade is possible on a Mac…

@SuperRogier Жыл бұрын

Well 'easy' - he is probably the only one in the world who is doing it, has the tools, but more important - has the knowledge.

@jpht1964 Жыл бұрын

@@SuperRogier i was cynical…

@SuperRogier Жыл бұрын

@@jpht1964 my bad, you never know nowadays. But he makes it look so easy, that is what triggered me into not recognising sarcasm ;) You only need a few tools and some software..

@briccimn Ай бұрын

Oh what a cooooool superrrrrr video and skillllssss!!!! I DO LOVE IT!!!

@peterwan小P 2 жыл бұрын

oh god! oh my god!!! this video is going so technical OMFG!

@covetedTV Жыл бұрын

당신은 천재입니다. 진정한 능력자... 멋집니다.

@aroeru Жыл бұрын

Bro I love these kind of content

@jabbawok944 2 жыл бұрын

Looked forward to this one particularly.

@inkloki 9 ай бұрын

You are a fckn genius. I see The Force is strong with you.

@RicardoGomez-mp5rx Жыл бұрын

you are my hero, great and patient work...

@Madhawa333 2 жыл бұрын

Im waiting for this, thank genius dude 👏 🥇

@fmt1890 Жыл бұрын

Dude you should do custom orders. I'd love to see my Mac mini 2014 upgraded like that!

@danielriossuarez 2 жыл бұрын

Impressive work and excellent explanation.

@rawstarmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Hi will you be able to produce a patch for Macs that now will go out of system upgrades like the fabulous Mac book Air 2017 ?

@criticoesincero Жыл бұрын

Amazing job. Is a dream your job. Congrats from Brazil

@AtariForeva 2 жыл бұрын

That's a good use of an old DVD/CD ROM drive.

@kythrathesuntamer9715 2 ай бұрын

I'm going up to Canada from Portland Next year hopefully to learn Microsoldering and smartphone repair but once I get comfortable soldering I am super excited to be able to do this kind of thing. I literally just bought a Mac Mini from late 2014 for 100 so that I could use opencore to upgrade to Monterry and run BlueBubbles server off of it but I noticed the appalling 4GB of RAM and I'm like that'd be good to upgrade.

@gjvdspam 2 ай бұрын

You're in for a lot of fun! Memory is doable, because of the smaller size. Just a little cheap preheater is enough. If I'd do it again I might mark the position of the IC's before removing.

@nickl8830 7 ай бұрын

fantastic video very detailed information - thanks Dosdude :-)

@hastingb Жыл бұрын

How you align those chips to be perfectly placed on the board is beyond me. You would think that some kind of guide would be glued onto the circuit board with the original chip so that you could be 110% sure the pads and contacts are properly placed.

@AkbarAli-cb6ic Жыл бұрын

Wonderful experience! Thank you.

@Steve-dm1qu Жыл бұрын

@dosdude1 amazing work man! I have a 2014 mini and thought I’d be able to follow along lol… yea I hate admitting defeat but think this is beyond my capabilities 😑.. Your work is impressive though!

@volanterodas Ай бұрын

great stuff, cheers for sharing it.

@PerfectSoundRS 11 ай бұрын

The TDP on that chip is low, lower than an i7 from a Mac Mini, even the i5 4278U scores higher. Still an improvement.

@davidbridgett9804 Жыл бұрын

I’m impressed with your upgrades. I was told by a guy who is a certified apple tech that the memory couldn’t be upgraded. Do you do work for other people. I have a late 2014 mac mini. I’ve never done any soldering. I would be very nervous doing something like that. How much did the parts cost and where did you find them?

@mr.number9279 Жыл бұрын

I mean, officially, no, it can't be upgraded. This isn't any different from installing modchips or other hardware mods to consoles. It *can* be done, but not officially.

@FairchlldMusic1 Жыл бұрын

Those base models are so wack - they’re basically disk caching from the moment they’re turned on until they’re turned off laugh😂. Nice upgrade dude!

@helloukw 7 ай бұрын

Really nice video. Thanks for the entertainment. Its a bit sad 2014 mac mini has only a 2 core cpu, which makes late 2012 mac mini a better choice both by the fact that you can upgrade ram and the i7 CPU being better in multi core performance thanks to the 4 cores and 8 threads and the 2012 i5 is a bit better than the 2014 i5. There is a plus however, 2014 mac mini consumes way less power than the 2012.

@mikespangler98 7 ай бұрын

The graphics are better on the 2014 as well, especially the 2.6 and i7 versions which are Iris instead of HD 5000.

@EddieRIffau 6 ай бұрын

Not something I could do but great work.

@ricardoroumimper1543 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting to see this kind of '"upgrading". Follow-up question: Will 4 x 8GB memory chips work as well? Or is 16GB really the max memory for a 2014 i7 Mac Mini?

@W4rH4wkXX 2 жыл бұрын

muahahahah i love this!!! make the impossible .....POSSIBLE!!!! Keep up the great work!!💪💪

@Neo_AIO Жыл бұрын

yah... about that you have 4 sets of 2 resistors for the spd data low & high and they are using 10k & 100k resistors depending what you chose

@dosdude1 Жыл бұрын

I know, but it doesn't really matter. Works just fine to pull up with 100K, pull down with 10K, and vice versa.

@otisarmyalso Жыл бұрын

🎉you really up on spec these machines

@tmeredyk 2 жыл бұрын

something therapeutic about soldering bga's

@nikitas.doroshenko 2 жыл бұрын

You are godlike! I wonder if it's possible to make the same trick with Intel Mac Mini 2018, but instead replace cpu to Xeon and add ECC memory?

@peterwan小P 2 жыл бұрын

OMG, thanks man btw. my mac mini 2014 is basically no longer in use and I am working on upgrading its ram but I don't have any soldering experiences so hmmm... I was looking for a professional to do it and non of them does that in hong kong. they said, "the 2014 mac mini does not have an upgradable ram" which is not true. it is not user serviceable but definitely upgradable(by soldering). anyways, thanks for the video, I am aware that the position of the resistor needs to be changed but I don't know how to cause I don't have the schematic and/or the necessary information that denotes that. Thanks for providing such valuable information and cya.

@user-eo1qx4ti9d 2 жыл бұрын

去深圳华强北。这都是小问题。几百块钱能帮你升级。很方便

@ferivertid 11 ай бұрын

it isnt upgradable as per ‘officially’ upgradable. going by your logic everything is upgradable

@MickeyMishra 2 жыл бұрын

Years ago, I wanted to upgrade my g3 CPU in my iMac to a G4. I still am not sure anyone has done that. But it's pointless now. Thing is? With a VM , Remote desktop/ VNC? You can be running the newest and greatest stuff with just the PC acting like a terminal / Thin client to do all the work remotely if you have a great network connection. I used to edit videos that way

@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur Жыл бұрын

You have some amazing skill level.

@carlosdavidmachadon1646 Жыл бұрын

AMAZING WORK, CONGRATS!

@DontFuckWitDreDay 2 жыл бұрын

This is the kind of stuff Steve Wozniak was doing back in the day when everyone thought he was crazy

@katbone1369 Жыл бұрын

Great job was done! Awesome.

@ironhead2008 2 жыл бұрын

Is the Mac Mini a single channel ram system? If so, it might explain the underwhelming improvement.

@dosdude1 2 жыл бұрын

No, it's dual-channel. After looking into it, the score it got was about the same as other systems with this same CPU. So it's working correctly.

@MrKillswitch88 2 жыл бұрын

Going to say that the improvement wasn't as some would have expected for a few reasons one of them being the ram as LP style ram is often a bit slower than the lower density modules that are user replaceable so with this options were well limited. Also the dual core at the end of the day is still a dual core so maybe it is possible to toss in a quad but I don't know what the thermal performance of this machine is like.

@albanagenais9552 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing job as always !

@rogerterry5013 9 ай бұрын

OMG, fantastic. Beyond my competence but I am going to upgrade a 2014 i5 Mac mini with an additional PCs 500Mb drive instead of the SSD drive. Hopefully this will speed things up enough. Actually I have a Mac Book Pro from 2011 which I managed to drive over. (don't ask how). I had the screen removed and have been using it to drive my tv but the OS is not upgradeable and I have VPN problems with it.