Just a view on you bricking your Mac Mini; I went with Windows as it can be customised to what I need. When I first put together my current rig 16GB of RAM was a decent amount, especially for what I was using it for. Now my 16GB is looking at the edge of being much too little. So I can't imagine what your 8GB must be like. I don't think you can upgrade single parts in Mac's otherwise I would suggest a massive RAM upgrade. I'm actually considering doing mine soon with all the extra memory requirements of everything we are doing these days it might need it sooner rather than later.
Yeah, can't upgrade the RAM. I used to run a more custom PC, but Windows did my head in. Apple's constrained, but the OS is much more friendly. Nonetheless, I was prepared to upgrade at some point, but the acceleration of that thanks to more RAM hungry applications was a bit of a shock. Interestingly, I've got an M1 chip Macbook too, and even it's now starting to struggle from time to time as well. If I upgrade the Mini again, I'm going to have to jump to like 32GB RAM
Just a view on you bricking your Mac Mini; I went with Windows as it can be customised to what I need. When I first put together my current rig 16GB of RAM was a decent amount, especially for what I was using it for. Now my 16GB is looking at the edge of being much too little. So I can't imagine what your 8GB must be like. I don't think you can upgrade single parts in Mac's otherwise I would suggest a massive RAM upgrade. I'm actually considering doing mine soon with all the extra memory requirements of everything we are doing these days it might need it sooner rather than later.
Yeah, can't upgrade the RAM. I used to run a more custom PC, but Windows did my head in. Apple's constrained, but the OS is much more friendly. Nonetheless, I was prepared to upgrade at some point, but the acceleration of that thanks to more RAM hungry applications was a bit of a shock. Interestingly, I've got an M1 chip Macbook too, and even it's now starting to struggle from time to time as well. If I upgrade the Mini again, I'm going to have to jump to like 32GB RAM