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David Gourley
David Gourley
3,818 Points
Posted by David Gourley
David Gourley
3,818 Points

Feasibility of running Xcode on a older machine help.

Hi guys, I've got a late 2012 i7 2.3 Mac Mini with 4Gb Ram and a 5400rpm drive. At the moment, buying a modern machine is financially unrealistic. This can run Xcode playground well enough but when I created a fresh Xcode file I noticed a considerable performance drop on the machine overall. My question is: What would be more pertinent to running Xcode well? RAM or SSD. If you had to choose one. Thanks for your help.

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Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points
Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

My first reaction is more RAM, 4Gb isn't much anymore and extra memory is a lot cheaper than it use to be. Check Activity Monitor while you run xcode and see how much you're using. If that's your bottleneck, check your model specs before you buy any and see what the max amount you can install on that system is, and what type it supports such as PC3-12800 DDR3, etc.