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<blockquote data-quote="MikeFromMesa" data-source="post: 1798538" data-attributes="member: 305741"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>All of this started out fairly simply. All I wanted was some way to speed up my current Mini and I thought about increasing the size of the ssd. It is relatively small and I thought if I could increase the size of the ssd then I could stop using that external usb 3 drive for my photos and many of my apps. It probably would not be much, but it would be something.</p><p></p><p>I then thought about getting a used machine, perhaps the Mac Pro I almost bought when I bought the Mini, and that would allow me to largely configure the machine as I wanted - 32GB of RAM, 512GB or 1TB ssd and whatever video cards I thought would be best. I checked online and found that what I saw was over $2000 and, when I updated the video cards and the memory, I would be close to $2500-$3000, and I thought that was a lot of money for 5 year old technology.</p><p></p><p>I then thought about my wife's MacBook Pro. It has a 2.8GHz quad core i7, 16GB of RAM and 512GB ssd, and it was sitting unused, and although it did not have the RAM that I wanted I thought that it would serve me well, especially considering that it was not being used and it was already paid for. I did some testing and, yes, it worked just fine, noticeably faster than my Mini, and I could use it as a desktop and, when we traveled, take it with us. Then, of course, my wife decided she was ready to use the MacBook Pro, so that was that, but the damage was done. I had already looked at the new MacBook Pros with their 6 core i7 and i9 chips, knew that I could get the 32GB I wanted and either get a large internal ssd or get one of those really fast TB3 external ssds.</p><p></p><p>Part of me is ready to buy one of the 2013 Towers on eBay (most are around $1500) and update the video cards and live with TB2 and I assume I could do that for less than $2000. The rest of me is whispering in my ear that the new MBPs have newer technology and are more likely to keep me happy for another 4 or 5 years, so that is where I am now.</p><p></p><p>You were right about opening Pandora's Box ...</p><p></p><p><strong>> And more/bigger is better.</strong></p><p></p><p>Yes. I never understood the "less is more" crowd. I have always thought that less was less and more was more. But then that is what I would expect from someone whose unofficial motto is "If something is worth doing it is probably worth over-doing" <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Smirk.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Smirk:" title="Smirk :Smirk:" data-shortname=":Smirk:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MikeFromMesa, post: 1798538, member: 305741"] :D All of this started out fairly simply. All I wanted was some way to speed up my current Mini and I thought about increasing the size of the ssd. It is relatively small and I thought if I could increase the size of the ssd then I could stop using that external usb 3 drive for my photos and many of my apps. It probably would not be much, but it would be something. I then thought about getting a used machine, perhaps the Mac Pro I almost bought when I bought the Mini, and that would allow me to largely configure the machine as I wanted - 32GB of RAM, 512GB or 1TB ssd and whatever video cards I thought would be best. I checked online and found that what I saw was over $2000 and, when I updated the video cards and the memory, I would be close to $2500-$3000, and I thought that was a lot of money for 5 year old technology. I then thought about my wife's MacBook Pro. It has a 2.8GHz quad core i7, 16GB of RAM and 512GB ssd, and it was sitting unused, and although it did not have the RAM that I wanted I thought that it would serve me well, especially considering that it was not being used and it was already paid for. I did some testing and, yes, it worked just fine, noticeably faster than my Mini, and I could use it as a desktop and, when we traveled, take it with us. Then, of course, my wife decided she was ready to use the MacBook Pro, so that was that, but the damage was done. I had already looked at the new MacBook Pros with their 6 core i7 and i9 chips, knew that I could get the 32GB I wanted and either get a large internal ssd or get one of those really fast TB3 external ssds. Part of me is ready to buy one of the 2013 Towers on eBay (most are around $1500) and update the video cards and live with TB2 and I assume I could do that for less than $2000. The rest of me is whispering in my ear that the new MBPs have newer technology and are more likely to keep me happy for another 4 or 5 years, so that is where I am now. You were right about opening Pandora's Box ... [B]> And more/bigger is better.[/B] Yes. I never understood the "less is more" crowd. I have always thought that less was less and more was more. But then that is what I would expect from someone whose unofficial motto is "If something is worth doing it is probably worth over-doing" :Smirk: [/QUOTE]
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