and so there we have it this is now the mac mini with a solid state drive i put in NUMBER_TOKEN gigabytes of ram we have a NUMBER_TOKEN gigahertz quad core iNUMBER_TOKEN and we're plugged into a NUMBER_TOKEN inch apple cinema display i updated the mac mini all the way to catalina which is the latest that it will run natively maybe in a future video we can go in and and upgrade this thing to big sur or even to monterey but for now this is pretty incredible for a machine that i paid NUMBER_TOKEN for now you can get the ssd or well this one's a NUMBER_TOKEN gigabyte nowadays they're selling NUMBER_TOKEN a little bit faster as well you can get those for NUMBER_TOKEN and then add on top of that NUMBER_TOKEN gigabytes of ram i'll link some in the description below sometimes you can find it for cheap on ebay sometimes it's like NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN which is ironically almost as much as the entire machine cost but all in all we are doing really well here we're talking about easily less than NUMBER_TOKEN for this entire setup which is pretty nuts or at least that's for the mac mini part of it i'm not counting the cinema display i think i paid NUMBER_TOKEN bucks for this thing now as for using a mac mini like this as a main machine i think it's honestly a really good idea even though it's no longer officially supported right yet that's that's a bit of an annoyance but we're talking about NUMBER_TOKEN or if you want to buy one that you know has ram in it and an ssd already you can do some hunting and you can find those for around NUMBER_TOKEN bucks this type of build is definitely achievable and i think it offers a lot of value you're getting with the quad core version that i have here a pretty solid amount of performance for a mac in this price range i ran cinebench and we got a score of NUMBER_TOKEN points which is fairly respectable and this is honestly not too far off what the NUMBER_TOKEN base model core iNUMBER_TOKEN mac mini's score that was one of the reasons why this was so popular is because it was very similar in terms of multi-threaded performance to the NUMBER_TOKEN but that cost NUMBER_TOKEN and this was less at the time now this is a NUMBER_TOKEN or less machine and you're still getting that amount of performance so that's pretty that's pretty compelling so would i recommend building a mac mini like this yourself absolutely if you get this thing even with eight gigabytes of ram for under NUMBER_TOKEN you're getting yourself a very good deal especially if you already have a monitor and as for the monitor i definitely want to do some more digging with this cinema hd display because i think it's really really interesting so my next goal with it is going to be getting it to work native resolution with you know brightness controls and everything on newer macs like apple silicon max so definitely make sure you're subscribed to see how that goes and of course as usual make sure to like comment and subscribe and i'll see you guys in the next one
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN so definitely make sure you're subscribed to see how that goes and of course as usual make sure to like comment and subscribe and i'll see you guys in the next one END_INTERACTION_TOKEN