Mac Mini upgrade

[Ben Jenssen]

I bought a i5 mac mini to replace my i3, both 2018, it also has more ram and flash disk space. I never did this before, but since these are identical designs I decided to simply clone the old disk to the new machine. (OK, I have tried this before, in ancient times, and with terribly disappointing results.)

It has worked out great.

There were some snags like I expected, with Apple ID and stuff, but it's fixed and it saved me a LOT of work with migration assistant and setting up everything that I've fine tuned over the last year.

My apple id was the biggest bump, it was confused and gave errors, and I had to type my ID and password so many times I've forgotten. It also caused some secondary issues. But after some time Apple ID is happy again and it even can differentiate the two minis with the same name, it just puts (2) after the name of one of them.

Another thing was bluetooth devices. Believe it or not, I have no less than 3 keyboards and 3 mice around the room. And I need them all, it works for me. I had to "release" them from the i3 and set up connection on the i5. No problem.
And, of course some licenses had to be fixed.

But all this took me an evening, and I'm super happy.

Yesterday: 2018 Mac Mini, quad core i3, 16gb ram and 128 flash drive.
Today: 2018 Mac Mini, six core i5, 32gb ram and 256 flash drive.

I'll be selling the old mini, and I expect the upgrade will have cost me less than $200us.