![]() Just upgrade the GPU, tweak OSX a bit as mentioned above, and keep on truckin'. Do not disturb or shut off the power on your iMac during this update. It will take several minutes for the update to complete. When your iMac restarts, a gray screen will appear with a status bar to indicate the progress of the update. Would a brand new mac pro, or maxed out imac be faster? Yea, but an average machine like the mac mini? Shit, the mac mini isn't even available with a quad core anymore. The iMac EFI Update will update the EFI firmware on your iMac computer. And before that they were fairly flat along the xeons after 06. Performance increases have been nearly flat since sandy bridge, which was in 2011. That kind of was the big jump that we've just been coasting since. CPU power hasn't jumped that much since the generation that came out with the first mac pro. There's this weird thing with computer nerds who think anything over 2 years old is ancient, deprecated, and horribly slow now. Especially since you have the 8 core version, it's a pretty powerful machine still. Its single core score is decent and the multi core scores are still solid. Only the newest quad core or better machines exceed it. Really though, go look at some geekbench scores. If you don't care about GPU performance, there's some very cheap cards that will get the job done. I have a 2011 Mac Mini hooked up via HDMI and I have absolutely no problems with flickering and never have had any Sir, this issues only affects 2012. Get a new GPU, do some minor tweaking, and upgrade to as hobu said, mavericks and then yosemite soon. Hollywood effects studios and stuff use their cards. There's an ebay seller that specifically sells reflashed video cards to work with macs, and they have a very good rep. There are a few limitations, mainly that it doesn't have the latest standard of SATA and a couple other minor things. ![]() With an SSD it would likely kick the ass of 90% of the machines people use every day. 16gb of ram and that gen of xeon isn't an "outdated" machine, people need to get over themselves. (Follow-up to his report here on 2.33GHz (T7600) Core2 Duo/EFI Firmware Upgrade (to mini 2,1) and earlier OS X Lion install.) (added ) 'I just upgraded my 2006 Mac Mini from Software Update from OS X 10.7.4 to 10.7.5 - and did again have to delete the.
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