I wonder if anyone has any tips on replacing an old mac mini with a PC. I think I'll be replacing it in a year or so. Reliability is the number one priority. It won't need to do anything fancy (just like the mac mini), so a SATA SSD (stock or upgrade) would be perfectly acceptable.
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A PC alternative for mac mini?
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HP Elitedesk 800 mini . Put in a 960 EVO NVME in addition to the stock HDD and push the memory up to 16Gig. and you're set.
I like my Lenovo M900 tiny.
Put in a 500GB SSD and a 250GB .m2 drive, so nice internal room for 2 OS's.
Oh, go to this new forum: alternatives-to-mac-hardware
Put in a 500GB SSD and a 250GB .m2 drive, so nice internal room for 2 OS's.
Oh, go to this new forum: alternatives-to-mac-hardware
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We've been hearing that for 2 years.In a year or so there WILL be a new Mac Mini, make no mistake
I also swapped out to a Lenovo 900 mini, have a read here http://tweaks.com/windows/67168/building-the-ultimate-windows-10-micro-pc-part-1/
There MIGHT be. However, it will most likely be severely underspecced and overpriced. It's relative value to price ratio won't be the same as in 2009.In a year or so there WILL be a new Mac Mini, make no mistake
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I went with a Broadwell dual-core i5 NUC, added 16 GB RAM, a Broadcom Dell 802.11AC/Bluetooth 4 card, 512 GB m.2 SSD and 2 TB Samsung hard drive to make 2.5 TB Fusion drive. Runs El Capitan very nicely.
By no means an expert or well versed in mini Pc's, however a friend recently showed me his Intel NUC Skull Canyon, very impressed by the form factor and especially the performance. If was in the market for a mini PC this would be my choice, just a quick look of the spec is impressive alone, in the flesh better.
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