Make sure you have more RAM than what is noted as 'minimum' for any particular system or your computer may run slowly. But I was just curious.That computer can only run up to High Sierra.Ĭlick on this link to read how to get different versions of macOS. I guess the cost of this would normally far exceed the rewards. But I was wondering: in theory, it should be possible to use the FireWire 800 port with an adapter to connect to a Thunderbolt port in an external GPU. I had sort of come to terms with the fact that this cannot be upgraded.

Which means the machine is considerably more outdated in terms of graphics. Despite the fact that this machine still does not have a 1st generation Intel microprocessor, the Core 2 duo does ok for such needs, and the biggest drawback of such an old machine is the GPU an NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM. I think I am likely to use it often to perform text editing, regular web surfing, or small data analysis projects with Python/Anaconda3. This mac mini runs surprisingly well, especially after the RAM-upgrade. Therefore it makes a big difference to be able to run Ubuntu 22.04 and upgrade the OS as needed. The 320 GB internal drive still runs on macOS High Sierra 10.13, which is no longer supported. The new specifications after RAM-upgrade are: 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 16 GB RAM, 1066MHz frontside bus, 320GB hard drive.Īdditionally, I have an external drive with 250 GB which I can dual boot from, running Ubuntu 22.04.

I had an old mac mini mid 2010 lying around, and I decided to restore it to life, after I realized that a RAM-upgrade to 16 GB could in fact improve its performance considerably.

Mac mini mid 2010 sierra