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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

Thanks for that, I wasn’t sure about the 2018 model. Why solder the SSD? And unsolder already soldered (in the previous generation) RAM?

Anyway, how’s the mini with Linux as a server for you? Is it good? I thought of getting one and put it into sleep for idling and perhaps waking it up upon access.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Dunno. Apple do what Apple do. Presumably there was a cost benefit to soldering/unsoldering components.

    As for mine: it's pretty solid. It's a 2014/with a 3ghz i5 and 8gb of Ram, and honestly, the RAM will be the issue if I spin up much more.

    It's currently running

    • Immich
    • Grimmory
    • Mealie
    • Invidious
    • Jellyfin
    • Navidrome
    • Nextcloud
    • SearXNG

    and constantly hovers around 6.5gb in active use.

    That era of Macs were mid-SSD, so mine came with the option for a Fusion drive that wasn't originally specced, so I bought an adapter and now it has / and /boot on a 250gb M.2 and /home on a 1tb SATA SSD. And a 2TB external HDD is where Nextcloud lives. Honestly, I almost never have any trouble with it. It falls over once every six weeks or so, but a quick reboot and its back up on rails again.

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