Mac Mini M1 Help

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@Gary_Wasserman

When roon no longer supports Catalina I’ll have to replace it.

Using OpenCore legacy patcher the Mini can be upgraded to Big Sur or Monterey.

I upgraded mine to Big Sur. All it takes is a 16GB USB drive and about an hour of tinkering.
Has run without a hitch for over a month.

MacMini 2012 OpenCore Big Sur

I have two MacMini 2012 16gb with SSDs as my two Roon servers, one stereo and one surround. The MacMini can run Catalina officially which goes out of support in October, so there will be no security patches etc. I am wondering if anyone has tried using Opencore to get Big Sur to install, and the run Roon Server on it? Does it work OK? is there a performance hit? I have successfully installed Big Sur on a 2012 MBP - which is basically the same machine and it seems to run fine! The benefit of d…