Education pricing makes the base cost $499. I sold my 2020 Intel MacBook Pro for $370 and cashed in credit card rewards for $250 in Apple Gift cards and ordered the new mini. I never have a reason to take the computer from my desk, so no need for the laptop. This is an awesome deal. Can’t wait to experience the Silicon processor on a computer.
I’ve been wondering that as I haven’t used a “pc” since 2010, I only use iPads. With these modern computers, do you keep them on like iPads or shut them down when not using? The last time I used a computer you had to turn it on and wait 8 minutes
@@trumpdrago517 These Macs with the M series chips are extremely power efficient and fast. There isn't really a need to turn them off because they only use between 3 and 6 watts or so when asleep. But if you do turn them off, they boot up extremely fast, like in less than 20 seconds.
@@trumpdrago517 BTW when running, my M1 Mac Mini only uses about 20 or 30 watts at the most. Even under load. So yeah they are pretty energy efficient. I have it connected to a plug that has energy monitoring so I have been able to test it.
I came across this video because I am considering to move from a PC based solution to the Mac mini for my photo/video editing. I did not know this channel was also about photography. Great discovery for me and I just subscribed.
I actually do shut my mac down at the end of each day. I tried sleeping or screen locking a few times and the result was that my external storage mounts would all disappear when I logged back in. When I restart the mac from a shutdown all the mounts appear instantly and are available. It takes about 3.5 seconds to boot from cold and dark, so I haven't looked for a solution.
Think people are getting over excited about this silver box well it might be 3 seconds faster than my old Mac but I think all these you tubers are coping and paste each other reviews
Great video man.. I've just ordered the baseline model for my partner who is a professional photographer (Shoots up to 10 weddings a year) she is currently using a 2013 imac so going to be a massive upgrade! Going to buy a 4TB SSD external hard drive. Really hope she's going to happy with it!
Wow!! An extremely thorough, yet plain speak and informative video. Watched from the beginning to the end and now wishing you would buy one since I believe the hand on review would be just as engaging. Nice job!
Hi Joseph, thanks for your channel and all of your updates on the latest and greatest. I have a question for you re: this new Mac mini with Thunderbolt 5 - let's say you need to take it on the road and work on it from remote locations, and let's say you also need to bring your Windows (laptop) to work with important x86-only SW offerings, and let's say you also choose that Windows machine strategically so that it also supports Thunderbolt 5 (and 4). What happens if you connect them via Thunderbolt?.. Hopefully not an explosion, right?! Seriously, could this new protocol allow you to use your Windows laptop as a one-wire KVM for this latest Mac Mini? Very curious to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks in advance.
Only in the most dire circumstance do I ever shut down my Mac - and I've been using Macs since the SE30! In fact, when I needed to shut down my iMac some years ago, I didn't even know where the on/off button was and had to look it up! My Macs have always been on, all the time, I just set the screen to go off after 15 minutes. Mac Mini on/off button placement - a total non issue and certainly not a reason to not consider getting an M4 Mac Mini. As soon as feasible, I'll be getting one. Great vid BTW!
Great video, earned a sub from me! I got the base model (I already own an M3 Pro and M1 Pro) so wanted a little power box sitting on my desk at all times (currently have the 2018 Intel Mini). Looking forward to future videos from you. Thanks again.
@jblakephoto you do not have to go to the 14/20 Pro CPU to get the 273gbps bandwidth, it is on the base Pro. Also, just as with the last Mini Pro and Studio, I’m sure starting to upgrade the Pro that’s a horrible value for the Pro. Surprised your recommending that. Look at the last generation mini Pro with upgraded chip, SSD to 512 and ram to 32 to match the base Studio and see how close the prices are.
I am probably one of the dozen or so people in the world who actually turns their Mac off, mainly because I'm still using a 2010 Mac Pro with a faulty power supply. It absolutely chugs electricity (150W at idle!) and it doesn't wake properly after being put to sleep, so I always shut it down at the end of the day and boot it up every morning. I've just caved and purchased the base model mini to replace my Pro for daily use, and the power button placement honestly doesn't really bother me too much. I imagine if it isn't faulty like mine, simply putting it to sleep when not using it would be totally fine as macOS has been extremely reliable in my experience.
It isn't. It's called offering different price points to allow wealthy customers to over pay for a little more convenience. Literally every business is doing it. Apple tax refers to the idea that Apple is a luxury brand and you pay mainly for the privilege of wearing their logo. This isn't the case anymore (if it ever was true) or at least not with all of their products. You get a lot of value out of these entry level Macs. In fact you can't get comparable quality from anywhere else. And the lifetime costs of running a Mac are often well below those of the average PC. Back when Macs and PC ran on the same Intel chips, one could argue that you pay more for basically the same raw performance. This assumed that the difference between Mac OS and Windows comes down to a taste issue without tangible benefits for the Mac. But four years into the Apple Silicon era there's no Apple tax. Macs are darn cheap for what they offer.
@@jansix4287 Yeah. But storage upgrades are still extremely expensive. I think you missed that point in your little tirade. That’s the “Apple tax,” and it shouldn’t be handwaved away. It’s a genuine issue.
@@Tr4ns1st0r It’s called capitalism. In the cheapest HP printers is a chip that artificially lowers printing speed (pages per minute) to make rich people buy the more expensive option. Every company needs different products for rich and average people. Just don’t look at the products, which are not made for you! Compare entry-level Macs with Copilot+ PCs and tell me there is a price difference?! If anything the Mac is cheaper with longer lifetime and higher resale value.
@@nowitizkisson I use an external nvme enclosure on my M1 mac mini already. I have never used the built in 256GB drive, apart from to install MacOS onto the 2TB nvme.
While I like the MacBook's my current laptop rarely leaves the house. So, I have decided to go to the Mac mini. The Imac would have been an option if they had released it with a 27 or 32" display but they didn't so this is my fallback. I am waiting to see if they release a lower priced display in their XDR lineup.
Sure glad I got the (I want another Mac) craze a few months back, started with the M4 Pro iPad, then the new 15 Pro iPhone… then have been waiting for the mini and I must admit I feel like I have scored a home-runi
No SDXC card slot is the reason I am still wavering between the new Mini M4 Pro and the Studio M2 Max. Plus the Studio has almost double the GPU cores and 32GB of Unified memory (standard) vs 24GB on the Mini. Apple doing what Apple does, making the choices hard and the motivation to start bundling up the option ladder so so easy.
i ordered the Mac mini m4 with 32gb memory and 1tb storage, kinda wondering whether i should have gone with the m4 pro. im having an internal debate with myself. i do 3d modelling, nut currency use m1 MacBook pro and everything is fine, so figured the m4 would also be fine, decisions
Thank you so very much on your evaluation of the Mac Mini. I must save this video for reference. Now comes the part where i must decide how best to unitize the mini Mac . The decision has been made on what product will be acquired, now the question is how much extras will be needed and how much I can par down the unwanted “stuffs” i have already…..thank you again, best regards…
I currently have a Mac studio M1 Ultra with 64 GB of ram. I don’t do any video work. The most intensive work I do is editing raw photos and Luminar. I’m curious your thoughts regarding the computer I have versus a maxed out M4 Pro Mac mini.
I have a MacBook Air with a gatting on for 1000 day uptime, my smaller MacBook Pro gets a restart once a year and my larger MacBook Pro does get a lot of restarts but that is due to an unfixable memory leak.
There are 3 situations where my Mac Mini has been shut down. 1- Power outage in my area. 2- Updates - It restarts so I'm counting it as a shut down of sorts. 3- I move it to a different location. I have the Base M4 Pro Mac Mini on the way. I configured it with the 14/20 chip upgrade and left everything else alone. For my use case, 24Gb Ram is more than enough and I have external USB C storage drives that I swap between my Mac, 16 Pro Max, and sometimes my M4 iPad Pro. I believe $1,600 is reasonable for what I'm getting. After 4 years it's time to send my trusty Base M1 Mac Mini to a good home. The 8Gb Ram just isn't enough anymore. I'ts still a great little machine, but I have outgrown it due to a higher demand in my use case.
I used to leave my computers running 24/7 but these days I'm more mindful of the power consumption and wear and tear. I want my computers to last longer so been switching them off when I'm not using them for a few hours or more. Startup and shutdown is pretty quick these days anyway.
I have an m1 macbook pro 14” base model and do a lot of video editing on davinci, i kinda want to get into 3D rendering, would the base m4 mini be able to handle that work flow or should I go with the m4 pro chip and upgrade to the higher gpu/cpu
It depends on what kind of rendering you are doing and what you are rendering etc. I use a PC tower for most of my 3D modelling and stuff but honestly until you are more experienced with 3D it might be better to just experiment on the hardware you currently have. M1 should still be fine for modelling + rendering characters/simple scenes etc. Just don't try to make Alan Wake III on it.
I have an iMac Pro and it was switched on the day I received it and it’s never been turned off, the day it will be turned off will be when my new Mac mini pro is here and the same again won’t be turned off, first time seeing you on RUclips subscribed cos I like you. Many many thanks for your time
Be really careful with an upgraded build Mini before the new Studio is released. Those $2K Mini builds will probably age badly when a $2K base M4 Max Studio becomes available. Unless you really need the tiny footprint or need to get into 64GB of unified memory at the lowest price, the new Studio will be a better computer.
This is a good point. The M4 Pro mini is tempting but the future base model M4 Studio will probably already have most of these expensive upgrades already included, plus more ports and an SD card reader. I'm going to wait to see before purchasing.
It is interesting how Apple likes to compare this to a “standard basic computer on the market”, yet that actual price would have to come to $799 or $999 since any basic computer these days has at least 512 or 1 TB HD. 256 GB is so ludicrously behind the times and then charging $200 increments to double it to 1 TB makes it much harder to swallow. Sure, get an external drive AS ONE SHOULD, but it’s closer than Apple wants to advertise 🙄
I just order the Mini M4 with 1tb 32gb and the 10 gig nic. I just got Google Fiber and they provide up to 8gb now. I need to upgrade my firewall. Already have the switch. This machine will be ready for it.
I have a M1 2020 MacBook Air. It is sitting on my desk closed and I am running a 34in Alienware OLED Ultra wide screen on it. I use a windows gaming computer for gaming. I have an external SSD Thunderbolt 4 2gb drive. The external drive is faster than in the internal 256gb on the MBA. I never open the MacBook Air and use the screen. I think I am just going to upgrade to the M4 entry level. I think in my case it really makes sense.
I have the M1 Mac mini and I only shut it down for the weekend or when I'm away for any period of time. I used to just leave it on 24/7 but some of my apps and the OS would get hung up, forcing me to reboot often.
I shut my M1 Mini down everyday in my studio. My old IMac (Win/linux) in the living room, just goes to sleep. Thinking of getting an M4 Pro for the studio and moving the M1 to the living room. Sell the old IMac or move it to the garage?
New sub here. Great channel. Would you be so kind as to answer a couple of questions. I mostly use Final Cut Pro & Photoshop to create videos on my Billy Luna Crime Stories YT channel. I am working in 1080p, but should probably start working in 4k. Currently I am using a 2019 Intel Macbook Pro with 16 g of ram and a 512 HD. I am Using a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD (2TB & 4TB) to edit off whilst using FCP. 1) For my needs, which exact configuration of the new M4 Mac Mini should I get? 2) Can I get maximum speed via Thunderbolt 4 or 5 using a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD? I would really like to save $ by not going with the pricey Apple storage & sticking with the externals. Thank you!
I assume my Qwizzlab Mac Mini dock will continue to work with the new M4 mac mini. It takes one USB-C port from the back of the computer. For that I can have an ssd stick, a 2.5 inch ssd, an sdhc slot, three usb-a ports and a usb-c port. The mac mini will be smaller than the hub, but it and the computer sit out of site.
Agreed. I can live with soldered RAM, but soldered SSD is terrible because SSDs tend to wear out pretty quickly. There's no way to swap out the SSD for a new one or upgrade to bigger capacity. Very sad.
@@robertshoop8181 Agreed that smart phones have that issue as well. However, most PCs and mini-PCs do not. I use a Minisforum UM790 Pro, it's as tiny as the new Mac mini, but I have the freedom to expand the RAM and SSD with off the shelf components. I loaded it with 64GB of RAM and two 4TB NVME SSDs (everything internal). It cost me a fraction of what it would cost to spec out any Mac with that. It runs everything I throw at it and I have the option to choose my OS, whether it's Windows, any Linux distro or whatever else. Another advantage is that it cannot run MacOS ;-)
I am curious about the scaling to 4k on the M4 mini or M4 Pro mini. I have an M1 mini with an old 1440p screen, but people say scaling to 4k won't work well on my M1 mini.
£200 to upgrade the ram is insane especially when it's soldered and not upgradeable. For production work 32GB is minimal requirement and you can buy 64GB DDR5 for
I’ve been on the fence of either building a new Windows rig or switching over to Apple but I had trouble swallowing the price of their hardware costs. I’ve used MacOS in the past and always considered it far better to Windows but I was considering the M2 Max Mac Studio. Now even the m4 pro Mac mini is a huge bargain to get into MacOS. If I wanted the a 64GB Ram/1TB ssd m4 pro Mac mini I’d spend as much as a base Mac Studio 32GB ram/512GB ssd. I don’t know what the performance difference between the M2 Max and the m4 pro but I doubt it’ll matter much to me, as I want it for digital 2D/3D illustration and animation work. Perhaps it might suffice to get the base m4 chip but upgrade to 32GB and 1TB drive. 🤔
hmmmmm you can always use ssd heared thunder bolt 5 has a 2 terrbyte ssd being made by another comenter always wy do you nead so much ram? plus can always whait for m4 studio if you feal like it of course etc
@@LeoLaumakesuretothink-dp4uo well for 2D illustration and animation 32 would be plenty but since I've been dabbling with 3D, I'd prefer to take precautions since this would be my workstation for years. The studio seems like it would be way too much since I presume it will utilize the m4 Max chip. For my use case with digital art/animation, processing power isn't the main focus as mid tier chips will be enough rather memory is what I need and I'd prefer not to allow the system to tap into swap memory.
I wouldn’t go Mac if your getting into cg work. rendering on nvidia is like 10x faster not even close. I like osx but I can’t ignore that performance difference .
Mac Mini M2 Pro and it never gets turned off. The power button whining is simply wrong. My gaming PC draws more power in 5 minutes than my Mac Mini does in a week, and that also just goes into sleep mode when I'm not using it.
So I'm also a Photographer, The M4 looks great, but might be a bit soon to buy one. No driver available for my Epson printer or my Promise RAID arrays that store all my photo work.
So what would you actually buy? Best value for video and photo editing? I see that you still have to buy a keyboard and mouse, assuming you already have a monitor. If you don't have a monitor, is the new Imac a better value?
After they robbed all the people who get MBP just to leave them closed on their desk connected to monitors 🤣 My guess will be around when they are ready to release an M4 Ultra, so it may be WWDC like last time.
I really wish I could get a pro with 32/512 for just 2x the price of the base mini, but it seems expensive compared to the base. The base will handle 90% of what I want, and for everything else, I need a lot of power, so I'm better off using what I have and waiting for a studio or pro.
The loss of USB A ports is not a problem for another reason. The ports are far enough apart that one can put a simple adapter that will allow you to connect your USB A to an adapter and put the adapter in one of the USB C or thunderbolt ports.
It's better to not upgrade anything. Second best is CPU. If you need to ask about it, you don't need more RAM. All the people who need more than 24 GB RAM know exactly who they are and which heavy recurring workflow would benefit from more memory.
As someone who has a lot of computers and plans to get the new Mini; the new Mini is a great value but you shouldn't discount an ROG Ally as a better $600 computer for a PC user. You can ignore the fact that it has a screen and game controller. If you are connecting a display via type C, then it is just a tiny desktop like the Mini. Don't even get me started on something like the Beelink EQR6 for $450. Moving to 16GB of RAM just bought the Mini into parity with the PC space. The USB 5 is nice though.
I was fine with Lightroom and 500 photos a wedding shoot. Editing videos on my 8gig Mac mini m1. Im selling that m1 or might keep it for my son. M1 to m4 is going to be an game changer to me.
Space saver and a tiny powerhouse. My interest is piqued. I build my own computers and run Linux Mint but this might be a good one to get. I like Davinci Resolve but would like to run some Adobe products just to see if they are significantly better than the open source software I use today. PS: The link for 'your computer' in the description goes to a drone remote.
Is it weird that most people talking about Mini Mac Pro CPU cores, never mention by adding more CPU cores, your actually adding Performance cores..... not efficiency cores? Im I wrong?
There are also 3rd party wizards who can upgrade internal NAND storage with BGA reworking such as DosDude1 for about 1/2 the cost of what Apple charges.
We can easily compare mac mini to other mini-pc with ryzetr cpu, and mini-pc twice cheaper, easy to upgrade to 64gb or even 256gb of memory, 2tb ssd m.2 etc... the only advantage is actually a gpu cores
Thunderstorms. Regularly have to shut down the Mac and APC during thunderstorms during monsoon season. Once had the Mac Pro ports trashed by a nearby lightning strike and luckily they reset after a few hours and a SMC reset. Once that happens you don't take chances. That said and done, a bottom power switch isn't any more of a problem than using toilet paper.
Have you worked on one for a period of time? if no: creators PLEASE spare us the useless speculative videos that usually aren't much more than thinly veiled ads. It only serves to water down the number of videos with actually relevant information.
After a few years and several Mac M-series, the presenter here can be pretty confident about what the M4 Mini will bring. It's not going to be a surprise.
I turn mine off because I have an exspensive studio display connected to MacBook Air and I’m afraid of the screen burning out even with the screen saver on
Yeah I looked at the prices. £200 extra for a basic RAM upgrade? ANOTHER £200 for the basic SSD?? Absolutely not. That's power computing money for a budget home PC in a funky looking chassis.
Nice video thanks for all the info and by the way I'm a mixing and recording engineer and producer so this is what I do for life my first Mac was a Mac iMac 20 inch in 2007 prior to getting the new update then I had a Mac pro then a 4K iMac which was the first gen and now I have a MacBook Air which is also good but here's the reason why I went to PC and it was a terrible terrible terrible thing you see what Apple introduced them one chip all of my $80,000 yes my $80,000 worth of plugins we're not compatible not even pro tools not even any of the uad plugins not even any of the Waves plugins all of my plugins basically we're not in one compatible and with Rosetta 2 I was not having it so that's why I bought a Lenovo PC with 8GB of memory and it had a rising 5 processor in 2022 from AMD so the AMD ryzen processor 5 was what I had it had a 256 GB SSD which was really bad thing and I regret buying that computer I bought this computer for 5,999 Turkish lira this did not include the 14 TB hard drive and also it did not include the screen or the mouse I regret buying this computer I regret buying this computer if I'd known the Max studio would come out and buy that but no I didn't do that I sold that computer just last yearactually this year I think it was last year I'm not too sure but I sold the computer and it's good riddance I did that because I will never go back to a PC it is just piece of s*** I've been using MacBooks or Max ever since I was in elementary school and I was at Ball's bluff elementary School where they had the Mac computer this was 1995 something like that and I'm actually Turkish so yes this is why I am going to go for the Mac mini with the improve processor I think the base model will be good but I am considering maybe upgrading to a one terabyte SSD and I also have a 14 terabyte Western digital SSD drive so for all my libraries and my contacts that's important for us music producers mixing and you know recording engineers we do not need graphicswe need more memory and more RAM and of course more CPU power so hopefully this will be a good option and of course you know getting that one terabyte is good but definitely if I have the money I would be opting for 64 gigabyte because a lot of my orchestral libraries you know the Vienna symphonic orchestral libraries kontakt komplete collector's edition which I just purchased you know a lot of those libraries that use more than 300gb a story and here's why I was reluctant to buy the Mac computers because and one point if you look at it the ram is soldered to the CPU and I was my MacBook Air it just isn't cutting it it has 8 gigabytes of memory for example that's what it has it has the M1 chip I bought this very cheap at Carrefour in Abu Dhabi it was on sale for $2,999 dirhams which is you know really the thing that I bought and it's still going well but when I open up a lot of my Chromecast my Firefox table is just is shiting on me so now it's time I get a new computer and it's going to be this Mac mini and you guys can check out my RUclips channel by clicking my name and you can check out all my videos on music music Creation and all that stuff so hope you guys enjoyed this comment I mean as us content creators this is a very very big leap and no I will not be buying an iMac because although the iMac is good I need the most power I can get out of this computer so it's going to be the Mac mini and hopefully with the M4 pro chip I'm going to be running this computer like hell and also it's going to be great because with the drum sessions that I do example we do a full session with country music androck and roll music that's the music that I do and you know as I said you need to record all those instruments including fiddles banjos you know organs which are the B3 organs since and so on and you need one computer to do that and this is my new computer so thanks for this in-depth review of the Mac mini but your thoughts on the Mac mini and I will be definitely buying it and continue the good work
I turn my iMac it off everyday, why should I leave it on ? to save 30 seconds of waiting ? I'm 10 hours not at home each day during the week, so why should I leave it on all day ?
Just a thought. Please eliminate the loud explosions of music. They detract from your message. I was constantly throttling the volume down, then back up to hear you. Just saying because I thought you would want to know.
I have a big apple ecosystem including M1 mac mini, M3 macbook air, Ipad Pro, and i just had to buy a £1k PC to do all the things you can't do on any of them.
I don’t get it. Every one of the reviewers use cameras that record to a SD card and one of them has ever mentioned that the MacMini has ever had a SD card reader. I now have the MacMini M2 Pro and no card reader. I will never upgrade this MacMini and I probably shouldn’t have bought it in the first place. So why hasn’t not one reviewer mentioned the lack of a card reader?
When I edit big photo files like Medium format 50 or 100MP, Ram seems critical, my current Mac Mini M1 16GB RAM comes to it's limit. I would never buy less than 32, better 48 or 64GB of RAM - that brings the new Mini in price regions where it is probably better to buy a Mac studio which has better cooling (for video calculations where both my M3 macbook Air and my Mini get hot quickly due to no active cooling (or - in the case of the Mini - "almost no" cooling).
As a casual vid editor I use DaVR because it's powerful and free. Refuse point blank to give $$$ to Adobe. But, if gives me that stuff in FCP then I would pay, because is usually simple and elegant, and I could justify the expense. Resolve is overkill for me, but iMovie is for soccer mums. Wonder when the MacStudio will hit. That will be interesting.
What’s your opinion on an m4 mini with 16gb of ram and 4K editing in Final Cut Pro? I know more ram is better and will likely upgrade to 24gb, just curious on your thoughts.
Nobody is addressing the elephant in the room: how well does it run open LLMs locally? Will we only be able to run the cloud-based Apple Intelligence with this box?
Our Church service runs on multiple Mac’s we turn them all off after each service. Live stream, multi cam & Pro Presenter, 2 minis and 1 iMac. But yes I’ll admit at home I don’t turn mine off.
I have an iMac, and yes I turn it off in the evening. So if this new Mac Mini is "carbon-neutral", whatever that really means, will people like me who live in Norway get a much longer delivery time?
Nice Mini but just bought the M2 last year. Is this the future of Apple product introductions? From open theater, highly anticipated public intros - to full-length, pre-produced video intros covering entire products lines - to individual prerecorded product lineups broken into 3 segments. Feels detached and impersonal and certainly not the Apple connection with customers. Seems Apple has chosen to distance itself from the customer base it once embraced.
Education pricing makes the base cost $499. I sold my 2020 Intel MacBook Pro for $370 and cashed in credit card rewards for $250 in Apple Gift cards and ordered the new mini. I never have a reason to take the computer from my desk, so no need for the laptop. This is an awesome deal. Can’t wait to experience the Silicon processor on a computer.
No one shuts down their Mac. It isn't part of the daily "workflow". 😀
I’ve been wondering that as I haven’t used a “pc” since 2010, I only use iPads. With these modern computers, do you keep them on like iPads or shut them down when not using? The last time I used a computer you had to turn it on and wait 8 minutes
@@trumpdrago517 These Macs with the M series chips are extremely power efficient and fast. There isn't really a need to turn them off because they only use between 3 and 6 watts or so when asleep. But if you do turn them off, they boot up extremely fast, like in less than 20 seconds.
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@@trumpdrago517 BTW when running, my M1 Mac Mini only uses about 20 or 30 watts at the most. Even under load. So yeah they are pretty energy efficient. I have it connected to a plug that has energy monitoring so I have been able to test it.
@@trumpdrago517 I restart my M1 MBP every other week or so.
I came across this video because I am considering to move from a PC based solution to the Mac mini for my photo/video editing. I did not know this channel was also about photography. Great discovery for me and I just subscribed.
I actually do shut my mac down at the end of each day. I tried sleeping or screen locking a few times and the result was that my external storage mounts would all disappear when I logged back in. When I restart the mac from a shutdown all the mounts appear instantly and are available. It takes about 3.5 seconds to boot from cold and dark, so I haven't looked for a solution.
idk if most people have a display "laying around" 😂but i found a pretty decent 1080p monitor while thrifting for $5!
nice
My M1 Mac mini has been on since 2020 lol, besides updates of course.
how it's been after some years?
@ pretty excellent tbh, I’m looking for excuses to change it, but I definitely don’t NEED to.
Think people are getting over excited about this silver box well it might be 3 seconds faster than my old Mac but I think all these you tubers are coping and paste each other reviews
Great video man.. I've just ordered the baseline model for my partner who is a professional photographer (Shoots up to 10 weddings a year) she is currently using a 2013 imac so going to be a massive upgrade! Going to buy a 4TB SSD external hard drive. Really hope she's going to happy with it!
Wow!! An extremely thorough, yet plain speak and informative video. Watched from the beginning to the end and now wishing you would buy one since I believe the hand on review would be just as engaging. Nice job!
Hi Joseph, thanks for your channel and all of your updates on the latest and greatest. I have a question for you re: this new Mac mini with Thunderbolt 5 - let's say you need to take it on the road and work on it from remote locations, and let's say you also need to bring your Windows (laptop) to work with important x86-only SW offerings, and let's say you also choose that Windows machine strategically so that it also supports Thunderbolt 5 (and 4). What happens if you connect them via Thunderbolt?.. Hopefully not an explosion, right?! Seriously, could this new protocol allow you to use your Windows laptop as a one-wire KVM for this latest Mac Mini? Very curious to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks in advance.
Only in the most dire circumstance do I ever shut down my Mac - and I've been using Macs since the SE30!
In fact, when I needed to shut down my iMac some years ago, I didn't even know where the on/off button was and had to look it up! My Macs have always been on, all the time, I just set the screen to go off after 15 minutes.
Mac Mini on/off button placement - a total non issue and certainly not a reason to not consider getting an M4 Mac Mini. As soon as feasible, I'll be getting one. Great vid BTW!
Great video, earned a sub from me! I got the base model (I already own an M3 Pro and M1 Pro) so wanted a little power box sitting on my desk at all times (currently have the 2018 Intel Mini). Looking forward to future videos from you. Thanks again.
@jblakephoto you do not have to go to the 14/20 Pro CPU to get the 273gbps bandwidth, it is on the base Pro. Also, just as with the last Mini Pro and Studio, I’m sure starting to upgrade the Pro that’s a horrible value for the Pro. Surprised your recommending that. Look at the last generation mini Pro with upgraded chip, SSD to 512 and ram to 32 to match the base Studio and see how close the prices are.
I am probably one of the dozen or so people in the world who actually turns their Mac off, mainly because I'm still using a 2010 Mac Pro with a faulty power supply. It absolutely chugs electricity (150W at idle!) and it doesn't wake properly after being put to sleep, so I always shut it down at the end of the day and boot it up every morning.
I've just caved and purchased the base model mini to replace my Pro for daily use, and the power button placement honestly doesn't really bother me too much. I imagine if it isn't faulty like mine, simply putting it to sleep when not using it would be totally fine as macOS has been extremely reliable in my experience.
the base model is a great price, but $200 to go from 256 to 512GB of storage. If that isn't an Apple tax I don't know what is! Bonkers.
It isn't. It's called offering different price points to allow wealthy customers to over pay for a little more convenience. Literally every business is doing it. Apple tax refers to the idea that Apple is a luxury brand and you pay mainly for the privilege of wearing their logo. This isn't the case anymore (if it ever was true) or at least not with all of their products. You get a lot of value out of these entry level Macs. In fact you can't get comparable quality from anywhere else. And the lifetime costs of running a Mac are often well below those of the average PC. Back when Macs and PC ran on the same Intel chips, one could argue that you pay more for basically the same raw performance. This assumed that the difference between Mac OS and Windows comes down to a taste issue without tangible benefits for the Mac. But four years into the Apple Silicon era there's no Apple tax. Macs are darn cheap for what they offer.
Just get an ssd for around the same price 100-150
@@jansix4287 Yeah. But storage upgrades are still extremely expensive. I think you missed that point in your little tirade. That’s the “Apple tax,” and it shouldn’t be handwaved away. It’s a genuine issue.
@@Tr4ns1st0r It’s called capitalism. In the cheapest HP printers is a chip that artificially lowers printing speed (pages per minute) to make rich people buy the more expensive option. Every company needs different products for rich and average people. Just don’t look at the products, which are not made for you! Compare entry-level Macs with Copilot+ PCs and tell me there is a price difference?! If anything the Mac is cheaper with longer lifetime and higher resale value.
@@nowitizkisson I use an external nvme enclosure on my M1 mac mini already.
I have never used the built in 256GB drive, apart from to install MacOS onto the 2TB nvme.
Great video, clear to the point and without the over-excitement common to Mac channels. Thank you
While I like the MacBook's my current laptop rarely leaves the house. So, I have decided to go to the Mac mini. The Imac would have been an option if they had released it with a 27 or 32" display but they didn't so this is my fallback. I am waiting to see if they release a lower priced display in their XDR lineup.
Sure glad I got the (I want another Mac) craze a few months back, started with the M4 Pro iPad, then the new 15 Pro iPhone… then have been waiting for the mini and I must admit I feel like I have scored a home-runi
So the 599 is plenty for Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Adobe Illustrator and Gopro videos? I think you said to move to the 1399 for creative editing?
No SDXC card slot is the reason I am still wavering between the new Mini M4 Pro and the Studio M2 Max. Plus the Studio has almost double the GPU cores and 32GB of Unified memory (standard) vs 24GB on the Mini. Apple doing what Apple does, making the choices hard and the motivation to start bundling up the option ladder so so easy.
i ordered the Mac mini m4 with 32gb memory and 1tb storage, kinda wondering whether i should have gone with the m4 pro. im having an internal debate with myself. i do 3d modelling, nut currency use m1 MacBook pro and everything is fine, so figured the m4 would also be fine, decisions
Just ordered a 64 Gb RAM Mac mini from Apple Education Store for around $2k.
nice
that's insane $ for just 8GB
Thank you so very much on your evaluation of the Mac Mini. I must save this video for reference. Now comes the part where i must decide how best to unitize the mini Mac . The decision has been made on what product will be acquired, now the question is how much extras will be needed and how much I can par down the unwanted “stuffs” i have already…..thank you again, best regards…
I currently have a Mac studio M1 Ultra with 64 GB of ram. I don’t do any video work. The most intensive work I do is editing raw photos and Luminar. I’m curious your thoughts regarding the computer I have versus a maxed out M4 Pro Mac mini.
I have a MacBook Air with a gatting on for 1000 day uptime, my smaller MacBook Pro gets a restart once a year and my larger MacBook Pro does get a lot of restarts but that is due to an unfixable memory leak.
There are 3 situations where my Mac Mini has been shut down. 1- Power outage in my area. 2- Updates - It restarts so I'm counting it as a shut down of sorts. 3- I move it to a different location.
I have the Base M4 Pro Mac Mini on the way. I configured it with the 14/20 chip upgrade and left everything else alone. For my use case, 24Gb Ram is more than enough and I have external USB C storage drives that I swap between my Mac, 16 Pro Max, and sometimes my M4 iPad Pro. I believe $1,600 is reasonable for what I'm getting.
After 4 years it's time to send my trusty Base M1 Mac Mini to a good home. The 8Gb Ram just isn't enough anymore. I'ts still a great little machine, but I have outgrown it due to a higher demand in my use case.
I used to leave my computers running 24/7 but these days I'm more mindful of the power consumption and wear and tear. I want my computers to last longer so been switching them off when I'm not using them for a few hours or more. Startup and shutdown is pretty quick these days anyway.
The Mac Mini will use very little power when in sleep mode.
I have an m1 macbook pro 14” base model and do a lot of video editing on davinci, i kinda want to get into 3D rendering, would the base m4 mini be able to handle that work flow or should I go with the m4 pro chip and upgrade to the higher gpu/cpu
It depends on what kind of rendering you are doing and what you are rendering etc.
I use a PC tower for most of my 3D modelling and stuff but honestly until you are more experienced with 3D it might be better to just experiment on the hardware you currently have.
M1 should still be fine for modelling + rendering characters/simple scenes etc. Just don't try to make Alan Wake III on it.
I have an iMac Pro and it was switched on the day I received it and it’s never been turned off, the day it will be turned off will be when my new Mac mini pro is here and the same again won’t be turned off, first time seeing you on RUclips subscribed cos I like you. Many many thanks for your time
Be really careful with an upgraded build Mini before the new Studio is released. Those $2K Mini builds will probably age badly when a $2K base M4 Max Studio becomes available. Unless you really need the tiny footprint or need to get into 64GB of unified memory at the lowest price, the new Studio will be a better computer.
This is a good point. The M4 Pro mini is tempting but the future base model M4 Studio will probably already have most of these expensive upgrades already included, plus more ports and an SD card reader. I'm going to wait to see before purchasing.
Good thinking!
When’s it coming though?
Agree a must have
It is interesting how Apple likes to compare this to a “standard basic computer on the market”, yet that actual price would have to come to $799 or $999 since any basic computer these days has at least 512 or 1 TB HD. 256 GB is so ludicrously behind the times and then charging $200 increments to double it to 1 TB makes it much harder to swallow. Sure, get an external drive AS ONE SHOULD, but it’s closer than Apple wants to advertise 🙄
If I was to buy a top spec mac mini m4 and bought a 4k benq monitor, would the text be really small native like I have heard on previous macs?
You can change text size. I use a 55" oled. It’s breathtaking
I just order the Mini M4 with 1tb 32gb and the 10 gig nic. I just got Google Fiber and they provide up to 8gb now. I need to upgrade my firewall. Already have the switch. This machine will be ready for it.
lol nice
Absolutely no reason you would need a 10G NIC in a Mac Mini. Facebook won't load any faster than it already does, boomer.
I have a M1 2020 MacBook Air. It is sitting on my desk closed and I am running a 34in Alienware OLED Ultra wide screen on it. I use a windows gaming computer for gaming. I have an external SSD Thunderbolt 4 2gb drive. The external drive is faster than in the internal 256gb on the MBA. I never open the MacBook Air and use the screen. I think I am just going to upgrade to the M4 entry level. I think in my case it really makes sense.
I have the M1 Mac mini and I only shut it down for the weekend or when I'm away for any period of time.
I used to just leave it on 24/7 but some of my apps and the OS would get hung up, forcing me to reboot often.
i turn off my MacBook only when there an update. That’s only a few times a year.
Have you seen the price of a Thunderbolt 5 SSD Drive? OWC is working on a 2TB for $400.
nice
As a mac user, I can confirm that I rarely interact with the power button unless I’m doing a reset.
do you think the base m4 mac mini will last 9 years?
i was really hoping for 1 USB-A in the back and SD card reader in the front. would have been PERFECT!
I shut my M1 Mini down everyday in my studio. My old IMac (Win/linux) in the living room, just goes to sleep. Thinking of getting an M4 Pro for the studio and moving the M1 to the living room. Sell the old IMac or move it to the garage?
New sub here. Great channel. Would you be so kind as to answer a couple of questions. I mostly use Final Cut Pro & Photoshop to create videos on my Billy Luna Crime Stories YT channel. I am working in 1080p, but should probably start working in 4k. Currently I am using a 2019 Intel Macbook Pro with 16 g of ram and a 512 HD. I am Using a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD (2TB & 4TB) to edit off whilst using FCP.
1) For my needs, which exact configuration of the new M4 Mac Mini should I get?
2) Can I get maximum speed via Thunderbolt 4 or 5 using a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD? I would really like to save $ by not going with the pricey Apple storage & sticking with the externals. Thank you!
I got the M4pro but I wish it came with 1tb standard
I assume my Qwizzlab Mac Mini dock will continue to work with the new M4 mac mini. It takes one USB-C port from the back of the computer. For that I can have an ssd stick, a 2.5 inch ssd, an sdhc slot, three usb-a ports and a usb-c port. The mac mini will be smaller than the hub, but it and the computer sit out of site.
A soldered disk is a disqualification for me... PERIOD
Agreed. I can live with soldered RAM, but soldered SSD is terrible because SSDs tend to wear out pretty quickly. There's no way to swap out the SSD for a new one or upgrade to bigger capacity. Very sad.
Stop using a smart phone and most current laptops then (including PCs). I do agree with your statement though. 🙂
@@robertshoop8181 Agreed that smart phones have that issue as well. However, most PCs and mini-PCs do not. I use a Minisforum UM790 Pro, it's as tiny as the new Mac mini, but I have the freedom to expand the RAM and SSD with off the shelf components. I loaded it with 64GB of RAM and two 4TB NVME SSDs (everything internal). It cost me a fraction of what it would cost to spec out any Mac with that. It runs everything I throw at it and I have the option to choose my OS, whether it's Windows, any Linux distro or whatever else. Another advantage is that it cannot run MacOS ;-)
its not soldered on Mini
@@Slavvvcom Correct, it's not, the way I look at it is you know what you are paying for when you buy Apple lol.
Would u recommend an m4 pro mac mini for casual gaming?
No
Depends on what you mean by casual gaming
@ like gta, and nba 2k25 lol
@@DreiCons I wouldn't get it for those. Get a PC, whether it be a desktop, miniPC, or gaming laptop
@@crestofhonor2349 preesh bro
I am curious about the scaling to 4k on the M4 mini or M4 Pro mini. I have an M1 mini with an old 1440p screen, but people say scaling to 4k won't work well on my M1 mini.
Is Iphone "must" with MacOS or can I continue to use my Pixel?
Nothing is a must. Works better together, though. That's Apple's whole thing.
£200 to upgrade the ram is insane especially when it's soldered and not upgradeable. For production work 32GB is minimal requirement and you can buy 64GB DDR5 for
I’ve been on the fence of either building a new Windows rig or switching over to Apple but I had trouble swallowing the price of their hardware costs. I’ve used MacOS in the past and always considered it far better to Windows but I was considering the M2 Max Mac Studio. Now even the m4 pro Mac mini is a huge bargain to get into MacOS. If I wanted the a 64GB Ram/1TB ssd m4 pro Mac mini I’d spend as much as a base Mac Studio 32GB ram/512GB ssd.
I don’t know what the performance difference between the M2 Max and the m4 pro but I doubt it’ll matter much to me, as I want it for digital 2D/3D illustration and animation work. Perhaps it might suffice to get the base m4 chip but upgrade to 32GB and 1TB drive. 🤔
hmmmmm you can always use ssd heared thunder bolt 5 has a 2 terrbyte ssd being made by another comenter always wy do you nead so much ram? plus can always whait for m4 studio if you feal like it of course etc
@@LeoLaumakesuretothink-dp4uo well for 2D illustration and animation 32 would be plenty but since I've been dabbling with 3D, I'd prefer to take precautions since this would be my workstation for years.
The studio seems like it would be way too much since I presume it will utilize the m4 Max chip. For my use case with digital art/animation, processing power isn't the main focus as mid tier chips will be enough rather memory is what I need and I'd prefer not to allow the system to tap into swap memory.
I stopped believing you at "far better to Windows"
I wouldn’t go Mac if your getting into cg work. rendering on nvidia is like 10x faster not even close. I like osx but I can’t ignore that performance difference .
@@thenewdesign ok 😂
Only time i turn off my Mac mini m1 is during updates. Being on the beta its like every other week to reboot and update
Mac Mini M2 Pro and it never gets turned off. The power button whining is simply wrong. My gaming PC draws more power in 5 minutes than my Mac Mini does in a week, and that also just goes into sleep mode when I'm not using it.
So I'm also a Photographer, The M4 looks great, but might be a bit soon to buy one. No driver available for my Epson printer or my Promise RAID arrays that store all my photo work.
The first G4 Mac mini was 6.5 square and 2 inches high. The form factor remained the same with the advent of the Intel models.
So what would you actually buy? Best value for video and photo editing? I see that you still have to buy a keyboard and mouse, assuming you already have a monitor. If you don't have a monitor, is the new Imac a better value?
If you want to use the power button, just turn it upside down. It's obviously how they designed it to be used.
Don't you power on macs with the keyboard anyway?
15:47 updates is when I turn it off. That’s it
Good video.
my laptop never turns off, and it's from 2019 intel i7 old... my Mac Studio M1 only shuts down when I lose power due to storms, otherwise it runs 24/7
I have a 2019 pro i5 and I have to turn it off almost every other day
When do you guys think Mac Studios are coming out?
After they robbed all the people who get MBP just to leave them closed on their desk connected to monitors 🤣 My guess will be around when they are ready to release an M4 Ultra, so it may be WWDC like last time.
@@ruzaroos ILast time Studios were not even upgraded. Im thinking much quicker.
@@synen prob talking about last time they for the m2 maybe
I really wish I could get a pro with 32/512 for just 2x the price of the base mini, but it seems expensive compared to the base. The base will handle 90% of what I want, and for everything else, I need a lot of power, so I'm better off using what I have and waiting for a studio or pro.
The loss of USB A ports is not a problem for another reason. The ports are far enough apart that one can put a simple adapter that will allow you to connect your USB A to an adapter and put the adapter in one of the USB C or thunderbolt ports.
Is it better to upgrade to cpu on the pro, or double the ram on the pro?
It's better to not upgrade anything. Second best is CPU. If you need to ask about it, you don't need more RAM. All the people who need more than 24 GB RAM know exactly who they are and which heavy recurring workflow would benefit from more memory.
@ stupid fkn answer. Condescending af.
Just when i do a restart once a week, but then its also not really off for that second 😀
Along with AirPods 4 ANC, this Mac Mini M4 are the best products released by Apple in 2024.
As someone who has a lot of computers and plans to get the new Mini; the new Mini is a great value but you shouldn't discount an ROG Ally as a better $600 computer for a PC user. You can ignore the fact that it has a screen and game controller. If you are connecting a display via type C, then it is just a tiny desktop like the Mini. Don't even get me started on something like the Beelink EQR6 for $450. Moving to 16GB of RAM just bought the Mini into parity with the PC space. The USB 5 is nice though.
Who cares about PC users? You can’t compare and contrast. MacOS is miles ahead as a complete UX. You couldn’t pay me to go back.
“I almost want one” lol. Hahahaha
I was fine with Lightroom and 500 photos a wedding shoot. Editing videos on my 8gig Mac mini m1. Im selling that m1 or might keep it for my son. M1 to m4 is going to be an game changer to me.
Space saver and a tiny powerhouse. My interest is piqued. I build my own computers and run Linux Mint but this might be a good one to get. I like Davinci Resolve but would like to run some Adobe products just to see if they are significantly better than the open source software I use today. PS: The link for 'your computer' in the description goes to a drone remote.
Piqued
@@marcpena3197 Thanks for the correction. I remember wondering about that one when I typed it. Fixed it. ;)
Is it weird that most people talking about Mini Mac Pro CPU cores, never mention by adding more CPU cores, your actually adding Performance cores..... not efficiency cores? Im I wrong?
There are also 3rd party wizards who can upgrade internal NAND storage with BGA reworking such as DosDude1 for about 1/2 the cost of what Apple charges.
We can easily compare mac mini to other mini-pc with ryzetr cpu, and mini-pc twice cheaper, easy to upgrade to 64gb or even 256gb of memory, 2tb ssd m.2 etc... the only advantage is actually a gpu cores
Hello people the keyboard has a power button. Apple expects you to power on your computer via the keyboard power button/thumbprint sensor.
Lack of external GPU is a deal killer, as is their ridiculous ram and storage prices.
It is called mini because it is a mini version of something that exist prior, the new design makes more sense; a mini version of Mac Studio.
Thunderstorms. Regularly have to shut down the Mac and APC during thunderstorms during monsoon season. Once had the Mac Pro ports trashed by a nearby lightning strike and luckily they reset after a few hours and a SMC reset. Once that happens you don't take chances. That said and done, a bottom power switch isn't any more of a problem than using toilet paper.
Have you worked on one for a period of time? if no: creators PLEASE spare us the useless speculative videos that usually aren't much more than thinly veiled ads. It only serves to water down the number of videos with actually relevant information.
After a few years and several Mac M-series, the presenter here can be pretty confident about what the M4 Mini will bring. It's not going to be a surprise.
I turn mine off because I have an exspensive studio display connected to MacBook Air and I’m afraid of the screen burning out even with the screen saver on
Use power button and escape for it to go to sleep, I also have a studio display and I’ve been doing this since it came out; the display is just fine.
Yeah I looked at the prices. £200 extra for a basic RAM upgrade? ANOTHER £200 for the basic SSD??
Absolutely not. That's power computing money for a budget home PC in a funky looking chassis.
I am using an 8TB SSD WD 850x with external Thunderbolt case. Speeds are 3800MB/s, that is enough.
Nice video thanks for all the info and by the way I'm a mixing and recording engineer and producer so this is what I do for life my first Mac was a Mac iMac 20 inch in 2007 prior to getting the new update then I had a Mac pro then a 4K iMac which was the first gen and now I have a MacBook Air which is also good but here's the reason why I went to PC and it was a terrible terrible terrible thing you see what Apple introduced them one chip all of my $80,000 yes my $80,000 worth of plugins we're not compatible not even pro tools not even any of the uad plugins not even any of the Waves plugins all of my plugins basically we're not in one compatible and with Rosetta 2 I was not having it so that's why I bought a Lenovo PC with 8GB of memory and it had a rising 5 processor in 2022 from AMD so the AMD ryzen processor 5 was what I had it had a 256 GB SSD which was really bad thing and I regret buying that computer I bought this computer for 5,999 Turkish lira this did not include the 14 TB hard drive and also it did not include the screen or the mouse I regret buying this computer I regret buying this computer if I'd known the Max studio would come out and buy that but no I didn't do that I sold that computer just last yearactually this year I think it was last year I'm not too sure but I sold the computer and it's good riddance I did that because I will never go back to a PC it is just piece of s*** I've been using MacBooks or Max ever since I was in elementary school and I was at Ball's bluff elementary School where they had the Mac computer this was 1995 something like that and I'm actually Turkish so yes this is why I am going to go for the Mac mini with the improve processor I think the base model will be good but I am considering maybe upgrading to a one terabyte SSD and I also have a 14 terabyte Western digital SSD drive so for all my libraries and my contacts that's important for us music producers mixing and you know recording engineers we do not need graphicswe need more memory and more RAM and of course more CPU power so hopefully this will be a good option and of course you know getting that one terabyte is good but definitely if I have the money I would be opting for 64 gigabyte because a lot of my orchestral libraries you know the Vienna symphonic orchestral libraries kontakt komplete collector's edition which I just purchased you know a lot of those libraries that use more than 300gb a story and here's why I was reluctant to buy the Mac computers because and one point if you look at it the ram is soldered to the CPU and I was my MacBook Air it just isn't cutting it it has 8 gigabytes of memory for example that's what it has it has the M1 chip I bought this very cheap at Carrefour in Abu Dhabi it was on sale for $2,999 dirhams which is you know really the thing that I bought and it's still going well but when I open up a lot of my Chromecast my Firefox table is just is shiting on me so now it's time I get a new computer and it's going to be this Mac mini and you guys can check out my RUclips channel by clicking my name and you can check out all my videos on music music Creation and all that stuff so hope you guys enjoyed this comment I mean as us content creators this is a very very big leap and no I will not be buying an iMac because although the iMac is good I need the most power I can get out of this computer so it's going to be the Mac mini and hopefully with the M4 pro chip I'm going to be running this computer like hell and also it's going to be great because with the drum sessions that I do example we do a full session with country music androck and roll music that's the music that I do and you know as I said you need to record all those instruments including fiddles banjos you know organs which are the B3 organs since and so on and you need one computer to do that and this is my new computer so thanks for this in-depth review of the Mac mini but your thoughts on the Mac mini and I will be definitely buying it and continue the good work
Sorry bro the pc I got right now is the best computer period because it's the one I got I'll get it to dk what I want no extra money spend thanks
Macs do most of their sys maintenance when asleep. Shutting them down kills that.
I turn my iMac it off everyday, why should I leave it on ? to save 30 seconds of waiting ? I'm 10 hours not at home each day during the week, so why should I leave it on all day ?
Thunderbolt 5 sounds fast enough for external RAM to be a reality
I rarely turn off my 2017 5k iMac, not an issue
Just a thought. Please eliminate the loud explosions of music. They detract from your message. I was constantly throttling the volume down, then back up to hear you. Just saying because I thought you would want to know.
I have a big apple ecosystem including M1 mac mini, M3 macbook air, Ipad Pro, and i just had to buy a £1k PC to do all the things you can't do on any of them.
I don’t get it. Every one of the reviewers use cameras that record to a SD card and one of them has ever mentioned that the MacMini has ever had a SD card reader.
I now have the MacMini M2 Pro and no card reader. I will never upgrade this MacMini and I probably shouldn’t have bought it in the first place.
So why hasn’t not one reviewer mentioned the lack of a card reader?
When I edit big photo files like Medium format 50 or 100MP, Ram seems critical, my current Mac Mini M1 16GB RAM comes to it's limit. I would never buy less than 32, better 48 or 64GB of RAM - that brings the new Mini in price regions where it is probably better to buy a Mac studio which has better cooling (for video calculations where both my M3 macbook Air and my Mini get hot quickly due to no active cooling (or - in the case of the Mini - "almost no" cooling).
As a casual vid editor I use DaVR because it's powerful and free. Refuse point blank to give $$$ to Adobe. But, if gives me that stuff in FCP then I would pay, because is usually simple and elegant, and I could justify the expense. Resolve is overkill for me, but iMovie is for soccer mums.
Wonder when the MacStudio will hit. That will be interesting.
What’s your opinion on an m4 mini with 16gb of ram and 4K editing in Final Cut Pro? I know more ram is better and will likely upgrade to 24gb, just curious on your thoughts.
Nobody is addressing the elephant in the room: how well does it run open LLMs locally? Will we only be able to run the cloud-based Apple Intelligence with this box?
A $1 adapter fixes the USB-A port issue.
Hmmmm I’ve been wanting to upgrade my windows pc for a while now…..
Our Church service runs on multiple Mac’s we turn them all off after each service. Live stream, multi cam & Pro Presenter, 2 minis and 1 iMac. But yes I’ll admit at home I don’t turn mine off.
I have an iMac, and yes I turn it off in the evening.
So if this new Mac Mini is "carbon-neutral", whatever that really means, will people like me who live in Norway get a much longer delivery time?
Nice Mini but just bought the M2 last year.
Is this the future of Apple product introductions? From open theater, highly anticipated public intros - to full-length, pre-produced video intros covering entire products lines - to individual prerecorded product lineups broken into 3 segments.
Feels detached and impersonal and certainly not the Apple connection with customers. Seems Apple has chosen to distance itself from the customer base it once embraced.
Indeed. I thought the same.
How noisy is it?
Buy base Mac Mini M4 with 16gb, 256tb for $599 use it for Final Cut Pro ect... for the nest 3-4 years,
In 3-4 years buy the new Mac Mini M6 for $599