![]() ![]() It was basically unusable with the hard drive, but the NVMe SSD upgrade is extremely simple. I got the 8 GB model with 1 TB hard drive. Old thread I know, but I just wanted to say I'm very pleased with my 2014 Mac mini, for my business applications and mainstream consumer usage. You can compare specs and benchmarks of your two Mini's here, the 2012 CPU is twice as fast. ![]() I don't see any improvement in performance on the 2014 Mini with the Iris chip. Did all the development on a 2012 2.6ghz quad i7 Mini. I created a website that uses webGL and 3js to render 3d terrain models from LIDAR imagery. Honestly, I don't even think the Iris is much of an upgrade over the HD4000. The higher end 2014 Mini's have the Intel Iris graphics chip, but that 1.4ghz model has the Intel HD5000 which isn't much of an upgrade from the HD4000 in the 2012. I am using a 2014 2.8ghz/8gb Mini as an iTunes server now, and it is much better. Now, the 4gb memory bottleneck was a big issue on mine, so I'm sure 8gb helps, but I still wouldn't touch it. It was fine for that (just running iTunes 24/7 with home sharing) but was virtually unusable for everything else. ![]() That 1.4ghz 2014 Mini is a disaster, I have one (but only 4gb RAM) and used it for a few years as an iTunes server. The 2012 will just run circles around the 2014.
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