Questions been asked to death, but I’m looking into getting the base macmin with 256 gig. But, should I opt for the 16 gig ram upgrade? Current PC use has been using it for gaming, maya, blender, photoshop, and davinci resolve. I’m coming from a PC with 32 gigs of ram, and I don’t think I do anything particularly crazy intensive, and won’t be using the macmini for games. I also want to run some programs an external SSD. How well does Mac mini handle that?
8 gigs is not enough, period. Get 16. I’d also get a drive upgrade for the speed. I think the mini is affected by the slow lowest spec drive “issue”.
Works great with externals though.
@shutuuplegs Is the drive upgrade necessary if I’m going to be using an external SSD? Aside from benchmarks of the internal drive does it being slower matter?
Yes. The minimum spec has lower bandwidth. It’s a huge difference in overall system satisfaction by upgrading the internal memory and storage.