Uses for Older Mac Mini

I have a late 2012 Intel i5 based Mac Mini, that is running Catalina (10.15.7), but won't update any further due to age. I'm planning to upgrade my "daily driver" to a newer machine, but this one still works fine. I'm just starting to get a lot of apps complaining that they soon won't be supporting Catalina any longer (and as we all know, a newer machine will be nice too.) But it makes no sense to "toss" this one, which is still, for all intents and purposes, still good. I do graphic design work, so some of the ideas I've had would be to use the i5 as:


eMail Server

Web Server

NAS/Storage "server" (?)


It has 16gb of RAM, and a 2TB SSD, so it's got enough horsepower to handle any of these tasks. (My Raspberry Pi's do more with less, so I see no reason the Mini wouldn't handle such tasks easily.) I haven't done any hunting as yet, for eMail or Web Server software that will run on Catalina, so I'm looking for ideas what to do here.


Thanks in advance.

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 4, 2025 8:59 AM

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Uses for Older Mac Mini

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