Can You Use Mac Mini for a Roon endpoint?

[wizardofoz (Mr Fix It aka The Wiz)]

Do note that RoonBridge and remote style Roon client have minimal system spec requirements, but the Core Mac should meet or ideally well exceed minimum specs for your best Roon experience.

even an old 2010 MacMini is fine for RoonBridge but will not work well for Roon Core

Roon Server and Remote specification recommendations

Suggested hardware

It feels like the answer to most “will it work?” questions is going to be “It’ll work, but it won’t be as good as it could be”, because lets be honest, no-one is going to wonder whether a Mac Pro works flawlessly or not. I want to expand a little bit more to help you guys understand where the tradeoffs are so you can make good hardware decisions. As we’ve said above, Roon will run on just about anything vaguely recent. How much hardware you need to get an impeccable experience depends on how yo…