What would be more interesting as it was sold with 1333 MHz memory. 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. What I haven't done, is run a benchmark test on a single Mac, with the two memory variations to see the performance hit. Before upgrading your memory, consult your owner’s manual to verify that an upgrade is possible. Note that per Apple manufacturer specifications, memory can’t be upgraded on (a) many Mac systems made after mid-2012 and (b) retina-based models. I will be buying 120GB Samsung 830 or Crucial M4, depends on price and availability or maybe will reuse my existing Mushkin Callisto 60GB (it’s SATA2, so maybe skip it). Last week ordered OWC Data Doubler kit to install an SSD into Mac Mini.

It ran for 8 hours, and passed all checksums. 3.0MHz and 3.4MHz systems with the Intel Core i5 processors only support modules up to 8GB. Currently have Mac Mini 2012 with 1TB internal disk. Oh and FWIW, I did a memory stress test as well.

I just know this works for these two machines. 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. Apple BTO Mac Mini Desktop Computer, M1 Chip with 8-Core CPU and 8-Core GPU, 16GB Memory, 512GB SSD, Gigabit Ethernet, Late 2020 4.8 out of 5 stars 56 1,069.92 1,069. My understanding is that the system detects the slower memory, and then runs a but slower as a result. 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.

Crucial memory for mac mini 2012