![]() ![]() As a result of Apple's reluctance to make a quad core version I had to turn to eBay and look for a 2012 i7 2.3GHZ quad core model with 6MB of 元 Cache. This new top of the line model costs a whopping £1309 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB fusion drive before you even buy a mouse or keyboard. ![]() Unfortunately Apple no longer sells a i7 quad core model and the best they currently sell is an i7 dual core running at 3.0GHZ which is only 26% better in single core benchmarks than the model I currently own and 32% worse than the i7 2012 quad core in multi-core benchmarks. However recently with the adoption of the H.265 codec its started to struggle transcoding large HD files in real time so i decided to upgrade. The 2012 i5 version is a dual core model with 3Mb of 元 Cache and is still a pretty decent machine, I've ran mine 24/7 since April 2015 and it hasn't missed a beat. For the last 18 months I've been running PLEX on a 2012 Mac Mini i5 2.5GHZ, upgraded with 16Gb of RAM (from 4GB) and a dual hard drive set up consisting of a 500GB SSD and the standard 500GB HD. ![]()
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