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Originally Posted by jswinden
I've still got my 2012 Mac Mini with i5 processor. It came with only 4GB RAM, but that was one of the last models that allowed you to upgrade it yourself, so I put in 16GB RAM. It isn't very fast, but I re-purposed it by installing Boot Camp and creating a dual boot computer with Mac OS X and Windows 10 so I can run a few apps that are only available on Windows. It was my first Mac since the early to mid-1990s when I finally gave up on Apple due to their greatly outdated OS in those days. I'm glad I switched back though.
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I have the same Mini, and am glad for it. Like you, I added 16GB. I want to add an SSD which will speed it enormously but thus far ahve not had the courage to do it, its a whole lot more complex than the upgrades I did to my 2010 Macbook. Still, I am not able to afford a whole new machine, and I like the Dell screen I bought to go with it, and it happily runs all my current photography editing apps, so I may plunge in and do the job before much longer.
Like you I abandoned Apple in the mid 90s (I had gone back to my Amiga, and a PC for Uni work), but I came back with the advent of OSX, in 2003 and never regretted doing so. The emac was bulky but it made me happy, computerwise
