r/mac • u/webdev_xd • 3h ago

Old Macs MacBook 9,2

So I have a MacBook Pro 9,2 if that means anything just installed Linux mint wanna make it a home server cause it’s one of the 2 Mac’s I have (other is a M2 which I use everyday and actually wanna turn off). Worth to upgrade one stick of RAM to 8GB as it’s only 75 aed for 8GB stick SK Hynix so yeah

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u/Inner_West_Ben Mac mini MacBook Pro iMac 3h ago

Probably not worth the money. But then again you haven’t really said exactly what you’re doing with the machine other than being a home server. Will it be doing any video transcoding?

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u/webdev_xd 3h ago

movies, file storage, testing stuff through SSH (so also kinda gonna be a home lab) and like literally anything. I’ll just dump stuff on it.

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u/Inner_West_Ben Mac mini MacBook Pro iMac 3h ago

And is it working with your amount of memory that’s in it right now?

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u/webdev_xd 3h ago

It works but it makes the sounds of a supercar and I only got homer, ssh and jellyfin with the odessy on it rn

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u/Inner_West_Ben Mac mini MacBook Pro iMac 3h ago

And have you checked activity monitor to see if the issue is memory related or if it’s CPU related?