Scary stuff...total overhaul of my Mac Mini. [View all]
It's a 2011 model, still perfectly good, but I've resisted updated The Lion King (or whatever it's called) because of my old version of Adobe Creative Suite. I've been getting a bunch of freelance work which will pay for a Creative Cloud subscription, but my old Mini under Mountain Lion won't run the Creative Cloud software. Plus, Dropbox is dropping support for Mountain Lion on January 1st, and one by one old software is no longer supporting Mountain Lion.
I gotta bite the bullet, so I just ordered a new 500gb SSD, plus a 1tb hard drive to create a 1.5 fusion drive. Then upgrade to the latest Mac OS and hope like hell my Time Machine backup actually works.
The upside is, my son is a total tech geek wizard and can do the install and updates. The downside is...I'm terrified. I've already informed my clients I may be offline for a day or two. Even tech geek son said to expect some pain. But, if it all works out, I'll have a brand new Mac for about $200.
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