Future of the Mac Mini early 2009

Hello

I have a Mac Mini early 2009 with the following specifications:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz

6 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB

OS X 10.11.1

I mainly work with Adobe CC2015: applications InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. For most 2D design. I know, for my work, the RAM is important as well as the HARD drive. I could be wrong. At this stage I do not know whether to invest in a new Mac Mini, or try adding more RAM to it and perhaps a better HARD drive. I noticed that Seagate launches new SSHD which combine the speed of an SSD with a HARD drive storage.

To get a better understanding of me thinking, I always try to do my best with what I have. Five years ago, when I started this business I was actually using a PPC G4 with Adobe CS3. Two years later, I bought a G5 and run Adobe CS4. Now, three years ago since I have computer yhis in my service and I am very happy that she. However, I noticed that started pretty slow when several applications are running (i.e.Safari with a tracking application recording time, MS Word, InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop and Excel). Last project, I have had has been great with the 200 Mb InDesign files. It took minutes to package a project make my productivity calving. Otherwise, it works great.

Bottom line will be how quickly it became too old to be in my service?

It would make a difference at this stage to add little extra RAM, buy a new HARD drive and decommissioning maybe my OS to OS X 10.10 maximum or even OS X 10.9?

It will make a big difference between my Mac Mini and a new Mac Mini with processor 1.4 GB, 8 GB of RAM and a 1.5 GB video card?

Any advice would be much appreciate it.

Kind regards

Sebastian

Your Mac supports 8 GB or RAM, so ranging from 6 to 8 GB help only a little but will help.

Replacing the Rotary HD with a SSD will really help. It is not hard to do. Because SSDS are relatively inexpensive no, I wouldn't go with a hybrid car.

1.4 GHz, Min 2014 has a 64 bit, multi-core of the note of 5341

Score of your Mini is 2278

http://browser.primatelabs.com/Mac-benchmarks

Thus, the 2014 will be much faster.

I don't see any real advantage to downgrade the OSX version

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