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M2 Mini config for the Grandparents
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M2 Mini config for the Grandparents
MAIN QUESTION: What config will maintain the speed and usability best?
Want to buy an M2 Mini for my Grandparents. They're both in their 80's. Healthy, but, you know.
They currently have an old iMac that is super sloooooooooow, and they get very frustrated with it.
They use it for:
email and web browsing (and they have a habit of leaving ALL their tabs open, like sometimes 50-60)
keeping and typing files on word and excel
photo storage and very light photo manipulation,
playing the odd game like solitaire, bridge etc,
They'd watch more YouTube videos if it wasn't such a pain to do so on the old machine.
Video calling is also too slow on it (tho they have an iphone to do that)
So they're definitely not power users.
I want this to last them 5+ years, without the slow speed frustrations they have put up with for several years.
However, I'm a student on a budget, and only have the $ for one upgrade (if one is needed): either ram or HDD. I've seen on a lot of reviews that the 512gb HDD can significantly boost the Mini's performance/speed in some operations.
So what's going to maintain the speed and usability best (and calling me less for tech help hah) - M2 base, M2 16gb ram, or M2 512gb HDD?
Thanks
Want to buy an M2 Mini for my Grandparents. They're both in their 80's. Healthy, but, you know.
They currently have an old iMac that is super sloooooooooow, and they get very frustrated with it.
They use it for:
email and web browsing (and they have a habit of leaving ALL their tabs open, like sometimes 50-60)
keeping and typing files on word and excel
photo storage and very light photo manipulation,
playing the odd game like solitaire, bridge etc,
They'd watch more YouTube videos if it wasn't such a pain to do so on the old machine.
Video calling is also too slow on it (tho they have an iphone to do that)
So they're definitely not power users.
I want this to last them 5+ years, without the slow speed frustrations they have put up with for several years.
However, I'm a student on a budget, and only have the $ for one upgrade (if one is needed): either ram or HDD. I've seen on a lot of reviews that the 512gb HDD can significantly boost the Mini's performance/speed in some operations.
So what's going to maintain the speed and usability best (and calling me less for tech help hah) - M2 base, M2 16gb ram, or M2 512gb HDD?
Thanks
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