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@@chey8625 not exactly meant that way. I meant as in it ended up being a hard video to make whilst also doing the job.

@@realmattjc I wouldn't pay much heed. Looked an annoying job to me. Torx screws, daft SSD adapters, fiddly dis/reasssembly. Makes me glad I don't have a mac.

@@KayakingVince it was fiddly but worth it.

Thanks for the heads up. 👍

If it were mine I’d give it a go.

Great to hear 🤙

Super thanks for the feedback. It was a challenging video to put together but I’m quite happy with how it turned out 🙏

Umm not sure what to say on the old iMacs. I fear you might be right about it being a paper weight. It was one of my own concerns when thinking about buying one. Who knows, there might be a way.

@@realmattjc . After reading that there's really no way I was thinking in this day of mini pcs I would think an ingenious person could swap out parts one from another. Plus Apples prices are ins a ne for their upgrades on new computers. I believe they could make things easier but they want u to spend ur money.

@@ewaldradavich7307 afraid so! 😞

Thank you 🙏

Thanks for sharing Carl. 👍👌

Glad it was helpful!

Nice one Kevin. Always good to know I’ve saved another machine 👍

It’s pretty good to be fair. Certainly won’t be changing from it.

I subbed as well. Thanks for the video!

That’s awesome. Thank you 🙏

Yes that part was a right pain!

I’ll certainly consider using the patch and see how it goes. The reassuring thing being there is an option to extend the life of the machine. All things considered it’s not bad for a 12 year old Mac 👍

Hey there. Good luck with the upgrade. It certainly makes a big difference :-)

@@realmattjc is it possible to upgrade the i5 cpu to and i7 cpu?

@@buckeye43210 good question. I’m not sure on that one as I think the cpu is integrated into the main board. I’d be inclined to say not.

I just ordered a second 2012 refurbished Mac Mini :-)

@@buckeye43210I hope so because that would be great 😂

Good luck with it 👍

Makes such difference doesn’t it.

Thank you so much 🙏

haha other drink brands are available! If the keyboard is fit for a bin, I guess you’ve nothing to lose 🤙

Thank you. How are you rating the S5IIX? I can’t bring myself to change the s5 yet and it works but have considered the newer ones. Yes, loving these FD lenses. Looking out for a 25 & 50mm myself as have a short film in the making and was thinking about shooting primarily on vintage glass. Do share a link to any of your work with these lenses. Always like to see what others are producing with them. 🙏

@@realmattjc The S5IIX is great though I have a friend who feels the S5 original is more filmic. The S5IIX is really sharp which I believe the vintage lenses can somewhat help to make it look more organic. I haven't shot with the FD lenses except random shots inside the house which aren't too good to come out. I'll dedicate a day to shoot something interesting and share. I shot with the Helios 44-2 on the S5IIX yesterday and truth is, I wish all lenses can look like it. The swirly background is so sweet for my taste. I intend mixing it up with the Canon FDs. I wish you a great shoot on the short film you plan making.

@@OwoyemiMichael thank you. Do let me know when you’ve chopped something up 🤙

Good shout on using an external drive. I never thought about that on my old 2014! You’re very right. SSD is the way to go 👍

If only. I doubt they ever will. They want to sell new machines 🤣🤣

@@realmattjc Really sad. Of cause the Mac mini in my basement is in his has years, caused by the x86 CPU. But it worked so long, so stable. It is at least one reason why I still think Apple makes really good hardware.

@@ronny332 agreed. I love them 👍

how did you get sonoma on there? I'm sure my 2012 mac mini told me a couple of osx versions ago that it was not supported.

@@derecwilsom4546 I believe you have to run a patch but not tried that myself and tbh I don’t think it’s needed for my parents computer.

Very true. I had the 2014 some time back and I’m not sure you could upgrade those

Same with my 2014 Mac Mini. RAM is soldered to the mainboard. The 2012 version was the last Mini that was fully upgradable (RAM and storage).

thank you so much @siktah 🙏

Won’t lie. I’d go for the M1. That’s what I use for editing. Thanks for the comment. 🙏

Makes the world of difference doesn’t it. Thanks for commenting 🙏

Massive jump. It’s gone from majorly frustrating to use to the performance of a new machine. Opens rapid and no hanging around.

I'm running the latest Linux Mint on my 2014 Mac Mini. From a USB connected SSD. The internal hard drive is used for my user account and file storage. Works like a charm. It's running my music server, but it is also hooked up to my living room's LCD TV. So I can also use it to surf the Internet from my couch using Chrome.

@@SandsOfArrakis easy surfing my friend 🤙

@@SandsOfArrakis yeah can be turn in to a Linux server too.

I'm running a 2012 mac mini i7, 16gb RAM, 500gb ssd, 1tb ssd. Running Linux 22.04 LTS for over a year. Every thing works, much quicker than macos. Very nice rig.

Haha thank you. Asking for subs was an oversight on this video. They do say ‘don’t ask, don’t get’ so thanks for taking the time to watch and indeed subscribe

How monumentally screwed would Apple be if you could still do this with modern hardware.

@@RichFletcher Very. Possibly why they have gone down the route they have. Cunning move Apple 🤣🤣

Indeed. I have also installed Chrome but good point made 👍

@@realmattjc You should get OCLP and install a more modern OS like Ventura or Sonoma. They run great on these machines.

@@SteveAaron funnily enough I was thinking about that. Correct me wrong but it’s some sort of patch?

​@@realmattjcyeah OCLP will patch Sonoma to run on the older hardware. I use my 2012 i7 Mac Mini every day with Sonoma after putting in a Samsung 850 SSD beside the 1TB HDD.

@@superjamesworld nice one. I’ll get on that. Thank you 🙏

Yes I was always aware it would be the SSD that made the difference but figured the RAM might be worth doing too. Either way it’s night and day difference now so all good. I think you’re right. They still definitely have their uses. Thanks for watching 🙏

@@realmattjc Yep, that RAM was worth upgrading too, I would have done the same thing.

Adding RAM allows you to run programs at all. But the SSD is the speed boost.

Thanks for commenting. It’s as the old saying goes, ‘if it’s not broken, don’t fix it’. I just sold my m1 Mac mini to get a MacBook Pro as the need was more for remote working. That said my parents Mini was slow as anything. Doing this has given it a new lease of life so it was worth the pain 🤣

please dont say that. Who wants to use a 12 year old processor and integrated graphics with new ram and storage if they cant get the full use put of it. 1200 mega hertz *example* original ram replaced with 3000 megahertz ram. what if the board does not support it?

nice video though was nice to watch

@@user-qf6kb4vl6d thank you for watching and you are quite right. It depends on what you need I guess. My parents didn’t need anything super fast however it was horrendously slow before the upgrade.

While I agree with the idea of keeping devices out of the landfill, this Mac is near end of life. It will only get a few more months of updates leaving it vulnerable to malware and app support issues. While it sounds annoying, I recommend putting a Linux distro on it that resembles MacOS just enough for a sense of familiarity and will keep this thing around longer.

@@chandlerbing7570 I will certainly keep that in mind. Thank you.

It’s the same case that I had for the mixtrack. Had to cut down the bits inside the case to make room. I couldn’t find one anywhere for the NS4

@@realmattjc ok thank you

What’s the issue with setting it to 50? Are you getting noise? To be honest I never had any issues with it. I’d always expect to potentially need to do post editing on the audio. I’d use something like audacity which is free.

I also get mic leaks, because the mic will then pic up other guests while they are talking to their mics. But we are using the same hardware (rode podmic and miscast 4) and there is other tutorials on youtube that they get to the -12db with 30 input gain, thats why i am wondering wht is the differece? It also like better to have the audio from the origin good which will make the post production editing much easier @@realmattjc

@@user-eo4vh2zc5kI see. Good question. What is your recording space like. Has it sound proofing to absorb room noise. Could be the room has reverb noise from the audio bouncing around. Maybe you need to lower the gain to reduce that and go down post edit to normalise the levels. Really hard to answer as a remote commenter.

I have tried In different environments, it still has the same issue. I know it is hard as a remote commenter, but it is just annoying that it works on everyone but me. Do you have like special setting for the eq or compressor or the noise gate?@@realmattjc

@@user-eo4vh2zc5k yeah I’d find that annoying too! I personally don’t use any of the effects. Not sure what I can really suggest on it tbh.

Hope you got it sorted.

Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much Marissa. Very pleased my video helped you out. Really appreciate the coffee 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Hope it helped 👍

Me too!

Just make sure you let it dry for a good day. I was lucky as it was blazing hot sunshine when I did mine. It’s still working to this day. Good luck 🤞

It works! the 1st day i washed it and placed it out in the sun it rained. So I had to wait 2 days for a sunny day to get it to dry up. I tried to use it before then but all the keys were messed up, it kept spamming my 't' key button. When I finally had a good dry out in the sun for a day, it started to work perfectly and no more sticky keys! I'm typing on this keyboard right now! thank you so much!

No chance, you are the master at this Jazz! I’d love to see your version bud. These type videos are really hard to make. You have to try and think of everything and still miss bits 🤣🤣

Great to hear. Another machine saved from the trash 🙏

Ah thank you Caroline 🙏

Hi there. It’s the little Smallrig p96l. It’s a great little light and very cheap. See amzn.to/47kW7LO

Thanks for the feedback and pleased it helped 👏

Congratulations on your purchase. I’ve personally never regretted it. 👍