Its certainly a worthwhile upgrade and I am glad I did. It definitely sound more coherent and very quiet meaning soft passage is clear and distinct.
Its different from say changing a cable but more like changing a transport. The immediate is the stability of the sound stage and more fluid presentation. I clearly hear a difference and its huge in my opinion but I can't say it will be the same in all system so I will stick with what I hear. The final test is to plug it back into the system. In fact the software installation took longer then I anticipated partly because I backup into a USB drive time machine which is not a smart thing to do. Also, iFixit has a confirmed that the Late 2014 Mac mini ships with memory soldered to the logic board, so RAM upgrades are not possible. Still I must caution to take necessary steps to prepare every necessary details, and backup and backup! I received my "Christmas Present" and did the installation yesterday - in less then half an hour I completed the hands on dirty part without a single scratch on my Mac Mini and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was. It’s been almost two years since the Mac mini was last updated, and while a 1.4 GHz Core i5 CPU may not sound very powerful, the new US499 price tag is sure to get your attention.
Upgrading memory in late 2012 mac mini how to#
Its easy and you will find plenty of DIY tutorials in youtube to show you how to do this physically. After some reading up I decided to stick with my current trusty Mac Mini with SL OS and DIY RAM plus SSD. I have also considered buying an entire new Mac Mini with fusion drive but the new ML OS is intensive computing on the processor however I am sure the current i7 will have no issue with this. I have consulted folks from Pure Music and they too suggested 8GC and SSD is the way to go. Over the last two years I have upgraded FW and USB cables with Oyaide and I can hear a sonic improvement too.įinally after the Apple 2 years warranty have expired I decided to upgrade to 8GB RAM and 120GB SSD this week. I run all music files from a Lacie 1TB FW Rugged drive bus powered and it sounds better and way less noisy over WD My Book Studio. I have a Mac Mini 3,1 with Snow Leopard OS, 4GB RAM, and 500 GB HDD from Fujitsu.
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