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I finally retired my trusty Mac Pro 3,1 last year (it's had a good innings) and swapped it for a Quad Core I7 2012 Mac Mini. It does everything I need it to do, which is basically general casual computing and music production. I'm aware the GPU is not particularly good, but I can (and have) upgraded it to 16GB RAM and 3TB of storage. You can't even do that amount of internal storage on the latest Mac Minis.
Meanwhile, my main work machine is now an M1 Mac Mini, and I've just spent upwards of an hour pruning out files because I've run out of disk space. On just about any other machine, I'd pop another disk in, and not have to think about this. I know I can buy a dock or add an external drive, but I take exception to spending my own cash on my employer's tools.
Does anyone else share this view? It seems increasingly there's a rose-tinted view towards the 2012, as being the last great Mac Mini before Apple started soldering things down and making it worse.
Meanwhile, my main work machine is now an M1 Mac Mini, and I've just spent upwards of an hour pruning out files because I've run out of disk space. On just about any other machine, I'd pop another disk in, and not have to think about this. I know I can buy a dock or add an external drive, but I take exception to spending my own cash on my employer's tools.
Does anyone else share this view? It seems increasingly there's a rose-tinted view towards the 2012, as being the last great Mac Mini before Apple started soldering things down and making it worse.
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