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<blockquote data-quote="Nina R" data-source="post: 1618416" data-attributes="member: 336758">Got a 2012 Mini (2.3 GHz i7), with hard drive only. Just beginning to work with it today, really. (Last night was basic set-up with teeth clenched from fear that Best Buy's horrible packaging and UPS's horrible handling had damaged it… seems OK… but thought I should mention in case anyone might benefit. If you are looking for one of these machines, avoid this scenario if possible. I was so afraid of it it was almost enough to make me buy the 2014 from Apple. Apple will be receiving some pictures of the crinkled box and its pathetic packing material, when I have time. They need to kick Best Buy's butt. I was going to order from B&amp;H and was talked out of it. I bet they'd have handled it with more respect.)Anyway, the Mini doesn't strike me as much faster than my Power Mac G5 (late 2005 DC 2.0, with RAM upgraded to 5 GB) but then I haven't done anything yet that would show off the quad core benefits. Will be ordering 16 GB of RAM from Crucial this weekend to replace the factory installed 4 GB, which is absurd. Hopefully that will help. Maybe when I get around to upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite that will also help according to something I read about VRAM. I wanted to run it under Mavericks for a bit first to make sure it was OK.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nina R, post: 1618416, member: 336758"] Got a 2012 Mini (2.3 GHz i7), with hard drive only. Just beginning to work with it today, really. (Last night was basic set-up with teeth clenched from fear that Best Buy's horrible packaging and UPS's horrible handling had damaged it… seems OK… but thought I should mention in case anyone might benefit. If you are looking for one of these machines, avoid this scenario if possible. I was so afraid of it it was almost enough to make me buy the 2014 from Apple. Apple will be receiving some pictures of the crinkled box and its pathetic packing material, when I have time. They need to kick Best Buy's butt. I was going to order from B&H and was talked out of it. I bet they'd have handled it with more respect.) Anyway, the Mini doesn't strike me as much faster than my Power Mac G5 (late 2005 DC 2.0, with RAM upgraded to 5 GB) but then I haven't done anything yet that would show off the quad core benefits. Will be ordering 16 GB of RAM from Crucial this weekend to replace the factory installed 4 GB, which is absurd. Hopefully that will help. Maybe when I get around to upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite that will also help according to something I read about VRAM. I wanted to run it under Mavericks for a bit first to make sure it was OK. [/QUOTE]

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