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Upgrading Mac mini
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 971470" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I believe the CPU is soldered fast to the logic board on Mac Minis, and much like a laptop, it's pretty much limited to memory and hard drive upgrades.</p><p></p><p>Regardless, for most people 64-bit does very little in terms of performance. I think the video game industry has gotten people to think that when you go from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit, performance and capability is an order of magnitude better. And that was true back when computers were more limited. Today's hardware is so vastly superior, it's not as big of a deal.</p><p></p><p>The biggest difference 64-bit will make for the average Joe is the ability to address more than 4GB of RAM in a system. Since yours is limited to 2GB by the chipset anyway, I don't see it really having any kind of impact for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 971470, member: 24098"] I believe the CPU is soldered fast to the logic board on Mac Minis, and much like a laptop, it's pretty much limited to memory and hard drive upgrades. Regardless, for most people 64-bit does very little in terms of performance. I think the video game industry has gotten people to think that when you go from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit, performance and capability is an order of magnitude better. And that was true back when computers were more limited. Today's hardware is so vastly superior, it's not as big of a deal. The biggest difference 64-bit will make for the average Joe is the ability to address more than 4GB of RAM in a system. Since yours is limited to 2GB by the chipset anyway, I don't see it really having any kind of impact for you. [/QUOTE]
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