Re: Hot Rodding a mac mini

Amusing... :-) I have the 2012 mini with 2.6Ghz i7 quad-core, 16G RAM, and 1T SSD fitted internally. I keep 300-400G free space on it; all my data and my accounts are stored on fast external drives (USB3 or Thunderbolt connections). It's a very fast little machine this way. G > On Jan 30,

Hot Rodding a mac mini

It seemed like a good idea at the time... A few years back, I bought a 2012 Mac Mini with a 1.1 TB fusion drive. Disks get full, performance drops, and pretty soon a young man's fancy turns to solid state drives. A bit of research and I find that I can pick up a 2TB samsung evo for $585. A

Re: Hot Rodding a mac mini

My guess is that it's there to keep the time when there's no power. Cheers, Dave > On Jan 31, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I forgot, there is a CR 2032 on the motherboard. I'm not sure what info it > is used to back up. I meant to replace it while I was in

Re: Hot Rodding a mac mini

I forgot, there is a CR 2032 on the motherboard. I'm not sure what info it is used to back up. I meant to replace it while I was in there, but I forgot. oops. Larry Colen wrote: It seemed like a good idea at the time... A few years back, I bought a 2012 Mac Mini with a 1.1 TB fusion