iATKOS | United Kingdom

I scored a Mac Mini on ebay for $75 after shipping (at least, I originally thought it was a good deal)

For some reason I thought I was buying the 2014 i7 version - I was going off the model number A1347, which is shared w the 2012 model. It's a 2012 i7

But it seems as though I might have lucked out because in terms of processing I guess the 2012 i7 quad-core is much better than the 2014 i7 dual? (i guess that should be obvi)

Anyway, I'm just brainstorming - its 2012 i7 quad core, 16GB RAM, 500GB HDD but will replace that w SSD

I feel like Sonoma would be a decent choice here, though maybe Sequoia would work just as good if i turn off the live wallpapers/screensavers

I'm curious if anyone here the same machine, and could share some notes if they've tried out both Sonoma & Sequoia? I originally planned to use this as a bluebubbles server (my main/personal machine is Linux), but I also hope this would be usable for XCode (not for full development, just native builds and QA)

Thanks in advance!