You are right. I just got 4 of the 2012 for $100 total last weekend. Super easy to upgrade the memory to 8GB or 16GB. A bunch of screws to remove to upgrade the HDD to an SSD. Big performance difference and High Sierra or Catalina is very useable. I also got a 2014 MM and I think it got a bad rap because they removed the thumb openings, the CPU seem like a downgrade and major work to get the HDD out to swap for an SSD. A hack I found is that for the Hybrid drive version you can just swap out to a high capacity SSD using an adapter. And the non-hybrid just buy one of those NVME adapter that just stick near the fan. I do want the 2018 and 2020 just to play with but bad that they made it not user upgradable.
Did you notice that MetalRT support showed up in the new Blender version? RT, ray tracing.
2023 body is the same like 2018 body; the 2010 - 2014 are the best (I own a 2012 one and I keep updating it as is worthing)
You are right. I just got 4 of the 2012 for $100 total last weekend. Super easy to upgrade the memory to 8GB or 16GB. A bunch of screws to remove to upgrade the HDD to an SSD. Big performance difference and High Sierra or Catalina is very useable.
I also got a 2014 MM and I think it got a bad rap because they removed the thumb openings, the CPU seem like a downgrade and major work to get the HDD out to swap for an SSD. A hack I found is that for the Hybrid drive version you can just swap out to a high capacity SSD using an adapter. And the non-hybrid just buy one of those NVME adapter that just stick near the fan.
I do want the 2018 and 2020 just to play with but bad that they made it not user upgradable.
@@songsan807, nice one! Thanks for the info.
Neat video.
Using a Mac Mini to type this comment:
16GB RAM, 2 @ 23" + monitors, HDMI to HDTV, Ethernet, ..."I Like It!".
Not the highest production value ever, but neat nonetheless