



Even if it doesn't work out, I'm not out much money. I'm willing to take a risk to try what I've asked about. Personally Id love it if the Mac minis held on to the Core Duos for a long time if it meant the Mac mini would drop back to the 499 price point. Woodmeister50: Yes, I'm trying to avoid completely wasting my time, but for testing I don't need something very powerful (although I do need the latest OS version). I feel if the Mac mini will get a Core 2 Duo it will be a while before the change since they just recently got the speed bump.
Last mac mini core 2 duo upgrade#
This link,, says I should be able to upgrade from Leopard to High Sierra by first upgrading to El Capitan. According to the Wikipedia link, 10.5.6 (Leopard) is upgradable to 10.11 (El Capitan). The built in superdrive on my mini is not working fully, can I use this as an alternative. I found on one auction forum for probably good price one Apple Mac Mini Intel Core 2 Duo. In fact, I don't see much difference in the hardware specs between 2009 and mid-2010 except the 2010 processor is running at 2.66GHz instead of 2.0GHz and the OS is 10.6.4 instead of 10.5.6. will superdrive work with early core 2 duo intel mac mini. Hi Guys i planing export my APPs on OSX and iOS. We have various faster Intel Core 2 Duo configurations and price processors, optical drives points. Hardware-wise, it seems that I should be OK for High Sierra, although the aforementioned link says mid-2010. Featuring erful: the new MacBook is even faster. This site,, says I can expand the memory in the A1283 model to 8G, "4G supported by Apple" (not sure what that "supported by Apple" bit means). The mid-2010 mac mini has a Core 2 Duo, like the 2009 model, and 2GB of memory. The order will be revised to a higher or lower price if there are any discrepancies the new price will be non-negotiable, but we will return the items free. Your link 'macOS High Sierra - Technical Specifications' says I need a mac mini mid-2010 or later, 2GB of memory and OS X 10.8 or higher.
