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<blockquote data-quote="SteveSawyer" data-source="post: 1921966" data-attributes="member: 415609"><p>Hey all...</p><p></p><p>New Mac owner. Well...new to me anyway. It's a 2014 Mac Mini running Monterey. This is my first Mac, and I've been very impressed with how well it performs despite being 8 years old - it's an i5 2-core w/16mb of memory and a 1TB HD. I thought the big test of whether this was going to be powerful enough for my needs was the 3D CAD software I run, but that runs just fine.</p><p></p><p>However, Xcode is another story entirely. Runs like a pig. Almost unusable. Even when I set it to run code manually (I'm new to Swift so I'm just doing Playground coding right now) it slows to a crawl.</p><p></p><p>My question is this. The shop where I bought this can install (relatively inexpensively) a 512GB SSD to replace this slow HD. I'm thinking this will NOT impact the performance I'm seeing in Xcode as I'm assuming the performance issue is this old i5 2-core processor, not disk access. If I'm right, I'll just have to put off Xcode development until next year when I plan on buying a new Mini running Apple silicon, but thought I'd ask here about this. TBH I was shocked at how horrible Xcode runs. I'm an old Python programmer and using even a robust IDE doing Python development can be done on pretty lame hardware!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveSawyer, post: 1921966, member: 415609"] Hey all... New Mac owner. Well...new to me anyway. It's a 2014 Mac Mini running Monterey. This is my first Mac, and I've been very impressed with how well it performs despite being 8 years old - it's an i5 2-core w/16mb of memory and a 1TB HD. I thought the big test of whether this was going to be powerful enough for my needs was the 3D CAD software I run, but that runs just fine. However, Xcode is another story entirely. Runs like a pig. Almost unusable. Even when I set it to run code manually (I'm new to Swift so I'm just doing Playground coding right now) it slows to a crawl. My question is this. The shop where I bought this can install (relatively inexpensively) a 512GB SSD to replace this slow HD. I'm thinking this will NOT impact the performance I'm seeing in Xcode as I'm assuming the performance issue is this old i5 2-core processor, not disk access. If I'm right, I'll just have to put off Xcode development until next year when I plan on buying a new Mini running Apple silicon, but thought I'd ask here about this. TBH I was shocked at how horrible Xcode runs. I'm an old Python programmer and using even a robust IDE doing Python development can be done on pretty lame hardware!! :) Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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