Eric makes good points.
I would agree, SSD space will give you the biggest bang in performance. You’re talking about a drive 30 or more times faster than the rotating model. For what you want to do I doubt you’ll feel a difference between the I5 and I7, if you were running lots of virtual machines and or lots of parallel applications you might benefit but just browsing mail and itunes, etc, won’t feel a difference. Eric is right the larger caches are good but I’m not sure you’re usage will tax a machine hard enough to be noticible. Same with memory, you’re not doing a lot. Sure you might get a little more caching on the application side with more memory but you’re not running anything that uses much. More is better sure but I’m not sure you’ll gain that much. I’d in the end say probably SSD, I7 and memory upgrade in that order with SSD vastly favored over the other two options. To the point I would spend my extra money on disk only and neglect both the processor and memory instead. Hope that helps. From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Arnold Schmidt <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 13, 2016 at 8:43 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Faster Processor, or More Memory? Again, I am seriously considering purchasing a Mac Mini. The one that I am considering has a 1 tb hard drive, 8 gig of memory, and an i5 processor for $699. I can afford to either upgrade the processor to an i7 for $300, or get a total of 16 gig of memory for $200, but not both. I just do simple things with my computer, email, web surfing, streaming audio or YouTube, maybe Netflix or hulu in the future, and backup and otherwise manipulate my iPhone. I probably will not install windows on it, I will make a clean break and learn to use my new Mac. One more thing: I keep a computer for a long time. This vista pc is from 2008, and the only reasons I am replacing it are because it won't run iTunes later than 12.1.3, and Microsoft is going to stop supporting vista next spring. So, would it be a better spending of money to get the i7 processor, or 16 gig of memory? My thinking: the i7 processor may make it capable of running a new Mac OS a time or two longer in the future. Or, should I save my money and buy it with its i5 and 8 gig of memory? Thanks in advance for any opinions. Arnold Schmidt -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
