Says the person who claims that his Mac Mini with a 500GB HDD was already fast enough... guess you shot yourself in your own foot and realise that the SSD is a massive difference eh?
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Is the 1.4ghz enough for my needs? Or should I go for 2.6 ghz
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I said the mac mini was fast enough for me. Of course any or everybody would want faster speeds but at times the cost doesnt justify the purchase especially when a cheaper unit can give you your needed performance. We have v12 cars that can go fast but why do you drive a v8 or v6?
Yes. Working from an SSD is fast. The speed improvement over a traditional HDD is dramatic. Let's agree that using an SSD based Mac is more fun than a the same setup with a HDD. This should be especially obvious with Yosemite equipped Macs.
Is this fun (storage speed) now required or is it merely a premium feature? Depending on how speed sensitive our brains are, some of us see this as a subjective question while others have closed the door on HDD boot drives.
celendron asks above:
"Is this fun (storage speed) now required or is it merely a premium feature? Depending on how speed sensitive our brains are, some of us see this as a subjective question while others have closed the door on HDD boot drives."
I would say that beginning with Mavericks it -is- now a "requirement", IF you want a computer that works faster than you do.
Mavericks, Yosemite (and probably El Capitan) will -run- on older Macs and newer Macs with HDDs.
BUT ... the user experience will give the impression that the OS is "walking", not "running"...
I want a computer that is "faster than me"....
"Is this fun (storage speed) now required or is it merely a premium feature? Depending on how speed sensitive our brains are, some of us see this as a subjective question while others have closed the door on HDD boot drives."
I would say that beginning with Mavericks it -is- now a "requirement", IF you want a computer that works faster than you do.
Mavericks, Yosemite (and probably El Capitan) will -run- on older Macs and newer Macs with HDDs.
BUT ... the user experience will give the impression that the OS is "walking", not "running"...
I want a computer that is "faster than me"....
celendron asks above:
"Is this fun (storage speed) now required or is it merely a premium feature? Depending on how speed sensitive our brains are, some of us see this as a subjective question while others have closed the door on HDD boot drives."
I would say that beginning with Mavericks it -is- now a "requirement", IF you want a computer that works faster than you do.
Mavericks, Yosemite (and probably El Capitan) will -run- on older Macs and newer Macs with HDDs.
BUT ... the user experience will give the impression that the OS is "walking", not "running"...
I want a computer that is "faster than me"....
Yes Fishrrman, I just made a similar point on another thread. But there was one difference. I put the 4Gb RAM limitation ahead of the HDD handicap because it cannot be corrected. I suspect that the SSD speed boost is great enough to mask the RAM deficit.
I should swap my OEM 4Gb SODIMMs back in to check my RAM and storage numbers. I know that some folks run Yosemite on less than 4Gb of RAM. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence about slow or adequate performance with limited RAM resources. Do we have any solid information about the Yosemite RAM requirements of 2012 or 2014 minis?