![]() ![]() Upgrading the RAM in your 2020/2018 Intel Mac Mini is surprisingly. You can boot from and external thunderbolt SSD though with the iMac - check out Youtube - and I did try this and it was pretty much as fast as the internal drive.įor me it was a case of spending some GBP1600 on a new 24 inch iMac or GBP900 on the Mac mini - plus the 4K monitor. 2020 Intel Mac Mini RAM Upgrade Start to Finish Installation Guide Apple say you cant do it. ![]() I did think of replacing the drive in the iMac, but that kit would have been around GBP200 so I thought I’d just start again. I did have so much rubbish and both used and unused addons on the iMac, so I’m sure that didn’t help. I can’t honestly say that I’ve noticed the M1 chip making anything ‘faster’ as yet, but as the Fusion drive on the iMac failed I was getting lots of spinning beachballs. ![]() I haven’t done any really processor intensive work, but Affinity Designer and RW work just fine. I started with a clean Big Sur install and am educating myself to use external drives for everything except what I’m working on at the moment and not installing any add-ons that I don’t need. I run 2 monitors, a cheap LG 4K via a USB C Thunderbolt port and an even cheaper VGA monitor via HDMI. I recently got an 8Gb RAM 512Gb SSD M1 Mac mini to replace my 2017 27 inch iMac with a failing 2Tb Fusion drive. ![]()
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