I'm sure it's there, I just don't care much because the machine with the slower memory is a server.Īlso be interested to see if the older machine with the faster memory got a speed boost memory wise.

If your Mac mini only has a hard drive, skip the steps about the PCIe SSD and its connector. This guide was made with a Fusion Drive Mac mini. What I haven't done, is run a benchmark test on a single Mac, with the two memory variations to see the performance hit. Use this guide to replace the hard drive in your hard-drive-only or Fusion Drive Mac mini Late 2014. It ran for 8 hours, and passed all checksums. Oh and FWIW, I did a memory stress test as well. In fact, Apple’s cheapest Mac has moved from a sub-500 purchase to a 799 one. I just know this works for these two machines. It is much more powerful, and as a result, it is no longer all that cheap.

I'm not stating this would work in all Macs, and I don't think this would work will all memory speeds. Similarly to how your system might behave if you swapped in a faster or slower processor in Macs that support that (i.e. Our units internals include: 1.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.7 GHz) with 3 MB 元 cache. My understanding is that the system detects the slower memory, and then runs a but slower as a result. Apples 'affordable powerhouse' offers a range of hardware configurations (but no gold color option, so you cant configure for bling). I have read reports previously about how it was possible to use slower or faster RAM than recommened in Macbooks as long as they matched: I think Apple doesn't recommend it for performance reasons not stability reasons.īoth machines post the correct memory speed, and even more interestingly, on the memory tab of the system profiler it even reminds me to be sure to fill the next DIMM slot with the same speed.

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