Mac Mini Late 2012 - macOS Ventura and SSD Upgrade

Video Description

In this video, I will start by taking a quick look at the Apple mac Mini in general and the one I have, a late 2012 model or MacMini6,1. Then I'll upgrade the slow hard disk to an SSD and I will also install macOS Ventura on it. That should extend the useful life of this nice device significantly. Lets see what what we can still do with it and make it usable again for 2023. Newer version of macOS: Sonoma In the meanwhile, macOS Sonoma has been released. A very similar method is available to install the latest version of macOS on unsupported hardware. I did a separate video that covers that version of macOS,. You can find that one over here: https://youtu.be/acpQuCIy3GA As mentioned in the video, I did a more detailed video on installing macOS Ventura on unsupported Apple Mac model: - You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/rJlx28Zn6cY - And a detailed blogpost: https://jensd.be/1897/apple/install-macos-ventura-on-unsupported-models Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:29 - Mac Mini Overview 01:52 - Performance before 02:39 - Prepare Ventura Installer 04:28 - SSD Upgrade 11:50 - First boot 12:05 - Ventura Installation 13:49 - Post-installation steps 14:49 - Performance after 15:40 - Outro