and with the integrated power supply, you don’t have a power brick to bring around with you. The Mid-2010 Mac mini has direct HDMI output with audio support – perfect for use with virtually all HDTVs (something not available on the 2009 and earlier models). I was also having issues with the partitioning scheme (I could not increase the Snow Leopard partition with Sierra running in unison – only the reverse), so the decision made perfect sense for me to just wipe it, move on, and dedicate our mid-2010 Mac mini as a Media Center/Media Server. I was satisfied with the performance of Sierra on this machine (configuration: 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GB of DDR3 Crucial RAM, and a Samsung 750 EVO 250 GB SSD), but it honestly was more of a stop-gap as I was nearing the point where I was about to go to a different Mac as our daily driver. Going back to the mid 2010 Mac mini: This was my family’s daily driver desktop and was running macOS 10.12 Sierra on one partition with a smaller partition dedicated to OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. 2010 Mac mini the Perfect Replacement for Original Apple TV Any other original Apple TV units out in the wild waiting for new owners are also now out of luck due to no longer being able to be authorized. While Apple essentially cutting the cord on the original Apple TV was a bummer for those with sizeable iTunes libraries or Blu-ray pack-in digital copy collections, I highlighted a great option I that I decided to go with as a replacement – the mid-2010 Mac mini.Īs an aside on the first generation Apple TV, digital copies of official iTunes content will still run on your unit provided that it was authorized prior to and should work until the unit dies as long as you never restore the device.

Asus mx27aq mac mini mid 2010