Storage-wise, this Mac mini comes with 1TB 5400 RPM hard drive that can be upgraded to a 1TB Fusion Drive or 256GB SSD. You can configure this Mac mini to have a 3.0GHz Intel Core i7 (3.5GHz boost) and 16GB of RAM.

The mid-range Mac mini 2014 comes with a 2.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz) with 3MB on-chip shared 元 cache, and 8GB of LPDDR3 RAM. The Mac mini 2018 ditches standard hard drives for SSDs, offering up to 2TB of super-fast storage space, which will make opening and editing large files and complex apps faster than ever. That's quite a slow hard drive, these days – solid state drives (SSDs) are much faster and increasingly prevalent in machines, especially small form factor devices where the heat and sound of SSDs is practically nothing compared to standard hard drives. The Mac mini 2014 also comes with a 500GB HDD that runs at 5400 RPM (revolutions per minute).

Graphics are handled by Intel HD Graphics 5000. The base model features a 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost to 2.7GHz), 4GB of 1600Mhz LPDDR3 RAM. Meanwhile, the Mac mini 2014 has had a number of hardware refreshes, and the most recent came with three hardware configurations. The Mac mini 2018 also supports up to 64GB of 2666 MHz memory, four times the RAM of the Mac mini 2014. This, Apple tells us, results in up to five times faster performance over the Mac mini 2014. It comes with quad- and 6-core 8th-generation Intel Core processors with Turbo Boost Speeds up to 4.6GHz and Intel UHD graphics. Apple says the Mac mini 2018 is the biggest update ever for the Mac mini, and it certainly looks like that's the case.

Mac mini for graphic design 2014