mac mini late 2012

I have a late 2012 Mac mini, 1 Tb SSD, 16 Gb RAM. My whole professional life depends on this machine and I would upset my customers if it is down for more than 24 hours - except during summer holidays etc. It is working perfectly fine and doing its job perfectly well. It is a work horse...

I'm trying to upgrade my late-2012 mini stock HDD with Samsung 870 EVO SATA 2.5" SSD. At first I was having issue with getting disk utility to detect the drive, i thought it was a loose connector so i redid my setup and it popped up. Then during the OS installation using bootable Catalina USB...

Hi, I have a 2 Mac mini Late 2012 Quad Core with temperature issues, I recently change the thermal paste MX4 and fully clean of dust, but both in idle have 58-68 and when I browse, YouTube etc it around 75-82. Also I check with my hand the device and always hot. I have installed iStat Menus to...

Hello, I was just considering about upgrading the software on my Mac Mini Late 2012 from High Sierra to MacOS Mojave. I have a few questions to ask, if anyone would be kind enough to reply then it would be really helpful. 1. Will my Mac run faster, smoother, and more efficient being on OS...

Hello I did an upgrade of a Late 2012 Mac Mini and maxed the ram in it at 16. My husband has an Mid 2007 Mac Mini. The highest ram it would take is 4 (same as came out of my 2012). I was just wondering if anyone has tried putting ram from a newer model into an older one as described above...

Hi! I'm looking for a way to start Calendar using a keyboard shortcut. I've already done: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts clicked "+", chose the Calendar app, added Alt-C as the shortcut . . . but it doesn't work. I'm using Firefox 55.0 (64 bit) on a Mac Mini...

Hello everyone! I currently have a 2012 i7 mac mini that was on Mavericks but out of necessity I had to upgrade to Sierra this past Monday. Every thing appeared ok and the few things that were off I fixed (external drive un-writable). There are 2 things that I need to work on though. One of...

Hi everybody, I read that my mac mini could potentially run the screen I want to buy, but not sure if I need a thunderbolt cable, or I can just use the mini-displayport to displayport I currently use on my Asus 27" (which runs at 2560x1440). Because if the thunderbolt is not required, I could...