 | Hi all, just happy to share that upgrading this Mac mini 2011 i5 went well. The original hard drive had failed a few years ago and had been replaced with a Crucial MX500 256 GB SSD drive. But it has been sitting on a shelf since then, so the SSD is practically new. The machine was running Catalina via the dosdude1 patch. I decided to mount a NAS/DNLA media server with it and took it off the shelf. Added a second 2 TB Seagate hard drive with a kit from aliexpress, which is working perfectly. Then upgraded it to Monterey with OCLP over the dosdude1 patch for better software support. It is running headless, and I control it with Screen Sharing from my other Mac… The other Mac is my 2010 iMac 21,5", still running strong. I bought it new and upgraded it from the the entry-level i3 model to an Intel i7-860s, 16 GB of RAM, Nvidia K2100M 2GB metal graphics and 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD. I swapped the LCD panel from a donor Mac, since the original one hat serious staining going on. Also running Monterey via OCLP. [link] [comments] |
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