Apple: meh

[Komatos]

Internally: not sure. Externally: with 4 USB3 ports, 1 FW800 port & 1 ThunderBolt port, yes. They do have the capability if special ordered from Apple directly (I bought mine from Micro Center for $50 cheaper: $749 instead of $799) to replace the internal 1TB 5400 RPM SATA HD with either a 256GB SSD or a hybrid drive (half SSD, half SATA).

Boot up times aren't really a worry for me since the Mac Mini line are such low power consumers I leave it on 24/7/365 (except during thunderstorms). This allows me to use Logmein.com to remote access my Mini from work & my work desktop from home. Great for remote troubleshooting.

Besides which, nothing can beat the boot up time of my former custom built PC from the early 2000's running BeOS 5.0.3/PhOS. :-) That baby used to boot up from BIOS/CMOS to ready-to-use desktop in 3-5 seconds.

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On Jun 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:

> Op 11-6-2013 20:42, Komatos schreef:
> 
>> I finally upgraded my original 1.42GHz PowerPC Mac Mini (original January 23, 2005 model) fully upgraded with 1GB RAM & 150GB HD this Spring to a new late 2012 i7 QuadCore 2.4GHz Mac Mini with 1TB regular HD (the $799 model). For $130 more, I went to Micro Center and maxed the RAM from the default 4GB to the max 16GB. Damn this baby flies, and that's without an SSD or faster (7200 RPM) HD. This should last me another 8 years until 2020 or so.
> 
> Does it take more than one hard drive? In my i7-960 (3.2 GHz, but slower than the current models; triple channel memory) with 6 GB memory, I've put both a 2 TB 5400 "eco" HDD and a 256 GB SDD.
> 
> That's a very nice combination. The SDD is big enough to store OS, applications and particularly games, and all the por... I mean, media files go on the HDD. The only thing that is very slightly annoying is that the HDD shuts down when not in use, and takes a few seconds to spin up again.
> 
> Windows 8, from the end of the BIOS screen to the start screen, takes about 8 seconds. Loading levels in games, which used to take sometimes minutes, is down to seconds or tens of seconds. (Except Max Payne 3, but that's an absolutely gorgeous looking turd of a game anyway.)
> 
> - Peter
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