This is NOT about installing a new operating system. This question is about UPDATES to existing system.
The following are the two machines that have been taking excessive amounts of time after restart to install
UPDATES before they will boot properly.
The Mini should not show a black screen for over an hour with no indication of what the problem is or what
to expect before it will finally boot properly. I am sorry if I seem testy. But Macs are expensive and getting more
so without going through a maze of fix this, fix that, fix this, fix that, at great added expense. I droped some water
on another Macbook Pro I bought in late 2009. It trashed the keyboard. I was quoted a preliminary price for replacment
of the WHOLE upper case to replace the keyboard @ $1200.
Mac mini (Late 2014)
Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
(this hard drive usage is current. Not at the time updates were executed. There was less use of the hard
drive at the time of updates)
HD: 297.9 GB free of 498.89 GB
My main use of this machine is as a dev server using installed Apache and php. I do web
related html/css/js dev and php dev WITHOUT MySql or any other database software)
macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Boot ROM Version: 83.0.0.0.0
HD: 469.45 GB of 498.88 GB
I use this machine mostly for download of still photos and video clips.
I do occasionally run photographic still post processing software.
