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06 May, 2015
2015 review of Apple Mac Mini (early 2009)
Got this for a song. It had OS X Yosemite and worked as advertised, but it was painfully slow. I made a couple of fairly cheap upgrades, replacing the HDD with a solid-state drive and replacing the 2GB of memory with 8GB, and that fixed the problems. It's still an older processor, but for most tasks, it's great. I even edited some video on the machine. It didn't render the video as quickly as a quad-core machine would, but it was fine; it took a few minutes but didn't crash or anything, and the video turned out great. I mostly use Windows but needed a cheap Mac for certain projects, and, despite its age, this machine is certainly adequate for that. I would definitely recommend this as a spare or a machine for kids or parents.