External GPUs are in the news lately, what with NVIDIA's announcement offering macOS drivers for its Titan Xp and Apple offering an eGPU Developer Kit for High Sierra, so we thought we'd take a second to explain what, exactly, an external GPU is — and how you'd go about getting one. What you need to know about the Mac, Thunderbolt 3, and external GPUs. Customers upgrading from version 11 or 12 can get a perpetual license for a one-time charge of $49.99 or the subscription for $49.99 a year. That gets you the entry-level edition; Parallels' professional edition with extra features is licensed as a subscription costing $99.99 a year for each Mac. Microsoft for mac price. I had a 2014 base and 2012 base mini and wanted to give one to my daughter's family at Christmas. Just couldn't give them the 2014 4gb machine, for some reason it just feels slower than the 2012. Upgraded the 2012 to 16gb which only cost $65. Put the system on an external Samsung t3 500gb SSD and they love it. I think it should be good for a number of years for their needs, they use their iPhones and iPads mainly. It replaced an iMac I gave them 10 years ago. I kept the 2014 and only use it as an iTunes server, works fine for that and doesn't a fast cpu or more than 4gb. I had a 2014 base and 2012 base mini and wanted to give one to my daughter's family at Christmas. Just couldn't give them the 2014 4gb machine, for some reason it just feels slower than the 2012. Upgraded the 2012 to 16gb which only cost $65. Put the system on an external Samsung t3 500gb SSD and they love it. ![]() I think it should be good for a number of years for their needs, they use their iPhones and iPads mainly. It replaced an iMac I gave them 10 years ago. I kept the 2014 and only use it as an iTunes server, works fine for that and doesn't a fast cpu or more than 4gb. Click to expand.Man, I hear such horrible things about the 2014 mini. The other option is to wait until a refurbished model becomes available with 8GB of ram (those run $609 CDN compared to $499 CDN for the base). The mid-level is $719 CDN. My needs are very modest. Just looking for a web surfing machine that can play YouTube. My current PC is from 2009 and if perfectly fine for everything I need, except it can't do 1080p @ 60Hz (stutters) and it runs windows instead of macOS. ![]() Is the 8GB or ram worth an extra $109 over the 4GB. It makes a huge difference? I only plan to use it for 3 years before upgrading. OP wrote: 'Will this be suitable for the next 3 years or so? Only thing I'm worried about is only 4GB of ram.' It will not be. Don't buy ANY Mac with only 4gb of RAM. The very least you need today is 8gb. The other problem with the base Mini is the graphics. The midrange and top-level Minis have the better GPU. Also, an internal fusion drive (or SSD) will be somewhat faster than ANY external SSD (even though an external SSD will be quite good). Your best bet (money-wise and with an eye on the future) would be: 1. Midrange Mini with 1tb fusion upgrade. Upper-end Mini (comes with 8gb and fusion standard). Jaeb0922 - An external SSD -WILL HELP-, a great deal. It will even help because of the lack of RAM in the Mini, by speeding up VM swap operations.
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