Why I bought a Mac mini in 2018 #Helpful Post

yo guys Johnson here and I bought a Mac

Mini in 2018 and you're probably

wondering why now before I explain

myself I get it from the outside looking

in this probably seems like a really

really dumb decision especially since

Apple hasn't updated the Mac Mini since

2014 that was the same year Apple

debuted the iPhone 6 and 6s the Apple

watch Austin Evans had spiky hair flappy

bird was removed from the App Store

guardians of the galaxy debuted in

theaters and Ellen took that giant ass

selfie the crazy thing is though you can

still buy that 2014 Mac Mini online and

in the Apple Store right now but you

absolutely shouldn't they start out a

$4.99 and go all the way up to 999 bucks

for a dual-core machine I can hear the

PC master-race making fun of that and

they should that is ridiculous

the other downside with the 2014 Mac

Mini is that you can't upgrade the RAM

so that's why I went back a little

further in time and scooped up the 2012

Mac Mini which is what I consider to be

the greatest Mac Mini of all time this

is what Apple considered to be a server

Mac Mini which essentially meant that it

just shipped with a special server

Edition OS but what made this awesome

was the hardware this packs a quad core

i7 processor dual 1 terabyte hard drives

and the ram is upgradable plus on top of

that it is jam-packed full of ports yet

gig Ethernet firewire 800 rest in peace

HDMI Thunderbolt 4 USB 3.0 ports audio

in audio out and an SD card slot so I

picked this up for about 600 bucks on

eBay used and that's $400 cheaper than

the most expensive current Mac Mini and

as dual core while this guy is quad core

so what kind of kick-started this entire

project is I've been prepping for an

office tour so behind me it's a little

sneak peek of a completely redesigned

media center we've got an 85 inch TV

brand-new sambhar Philips you everywhere

and as much as I love the Apple TV I

went down this crazy deep rabbit hole of

ripping blu-rays using it with Plex and

it works amazing with the Philips hue

sync app so yeah that freaking blew my

mind it's amazing I actually be dropping

in video on how I set that up tomorrow

so definitely stay tuned drop a like if

you are looking forward to that so back

to the Mac Mini it's compact it's

powerful ish and with a couple upgrades

it makes the perfect little compact plex

server for the

set up now the dual one terabyte hard

drives that come with the Mac Mini

storage wise they're cool but they're

5400 rpm and moving disk drives

absolutely crush my soul it's 2018 and

no one should be using a mechanical

drive so with that and because there are

dual drives the main upgrade here is to

upgrade those hard drives to SSD so I

got a 2 terabyte and a 4 terabyte SSD

which combines for a massive 6 terabytes

of fast storage on this tiny little Mac

Mini Ram Wise has only shipped with 4

gigabytes of RAM but you could max out

at 16 which is exactly what I did so

upgrade time ramp super simple first

hard drive super simple but to get to

that main hard drive you have to take

the Mac Mini entirely apart which is a

little more challenging than I

anticipated

 

now this isn't a tutorial or how to in

fact I will link the o WC video that I

use to reference to upgrade myself down

below and even though it was a little

challenging the upgrade was successful

so out-of-the-box has shipped with OS

10.8 mountain lion a little bit of a

throwback and normally I could've

upgraded directly from the computer but

because we installed new SSDs I had to

start from scratch and install a fresh

copy of High Sierra which is actually a

pretty easy process on a reference that

also down below so what are the upgrades

do for the Mac Mini firstly the original

5400 RPM hard drives those are about 100

megabytes per second read and write

whereas with the SSD is those are about

four to five times performance just

about 500 megabytes per second read and

write now as far as Geekbench the Mac

Mini got a single core score of 3415 and

a multi-core score of 11,000 270 for

reference a current gen 13-inch MacBook

Pro with a sweet D brand skin got a

single core score of 4000 for 95 and a

multi-core score of nine thousand three

hundred seventy eight so even though the

MacBook Pro outperforms this Mac Mini on

this single core side the multi-core

score is really strong and still holds

up really well six years later now

probably the biggest surprise

performance wise is prior to the Mac

Mini I was ripping blu-rays directly

from the Mac Pro and for reference to

rip the dark knight it took 22 minutes

and 9 seconds in the iMac Pro in 22

minutes and 31 seconds on the Mac Mini

so they're just about the same that

tells me two things one the program make

MKV really isn't optimized for the iMac

pro but two and probably more important

I don't have to rip on the iMac Pro and

then transfer I can do it directly on

the Mac Mini and it saves me an entire

step so that is why about a Mac Mini in

2018 and also why I consider the 2012

Mac Mini to be the greatest of all time

Michael Jordan not LeBron James again

tomorrow I'll be dropping a video on

this insane setup don't miss out this is

Jonathan and I will catch you guys later