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Should I upgrade my Mac Mini?
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<blockquote data-quote="skallal" data-source="post: 1525178" data-attributes="member: 268318"><p>Thanks for the helpful replies I've received so far. But I have to answer a question for myself none of you can answer, that is how far should I go in upgrading my Mac or getting a newer Mac. I've had my current Mac Mini since last August, less than a year. During that time, I've used it heavily the first month or two and then again for the last month now. In between, I only used it for occasional Netflix viewing on a 32 LCD monitor.</p><p></p><p>That said, I am considering the cheapest route right now, getting the 16 GB RAM upgrade from OWC. I know it is upgrading an older Mac. But it is the most bang for the buck until I know I'll be using a Mac more regularly. I can certainly do the iOS development on this box in the meantime. It certainly isn't the performance I'm accustomed to on my 32 GB RAM Windows 7 box at work. Nor should it be.</p><p></p><p>This leaves me with another question. How can I determine the bottle neck when running virtualization? How do I interpret the readings with Activity Monitor? If I'm reading it right, it looks like more memory will reduce swapping to paging files. It should reduce time lost to paging. How can I know for sure?</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p></p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skallal, post: 1525178, member: 268318"] Thanks for the helpful replies I've received so far. But I have to answer a question for myself none of you can answer, that is how far should I go in upgrading my Mac or getting a newer Mac. I've had my current Mac Mini since last August, less than a year. During that time, I've used it heavily the first month or two and then again for the last month now. In between, I only used it for occasional Netflix viewing on a 32 LCD monitor. That said, I am considering the cheapest route right now, getting the 16 GB RAM upgrade from OWC. I know it is upgrading an older Mac. But it is the most bang for the buck until I know I'll be using a Mac more regularly. I can certainly do the iOS development on this box in the meantime. It certainly isn't the performance I'm accustomed to on my 32 GB RAM Windows 7 box at work. Nor should it be. This leaves me with another question. How can I determine the bottle neck when running virtualization? How do I interpret the readings with Activity Monitor? If I'm reading it right, it looks like more memory will reduce swapping to paging files. It should reduce time lost to paging. How can I know for sure? Thanks, Steve [/QUOTE]
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