I realized Apple probably wanted to make 16gb of ram the base but didn't want to make the price higher, so they made the base lower so the 16 gb would be 100 bucks more than what the base m1 used to be, so they get the press of the lower price and most people will get 16 gigs for more than the m1 base was.
Why soldered SSD? Why 3x-4x overpriced Storage per TeraByte. Apple 2TB SOldered SSD ---> 800$. On Amazon , Easily replaceable 2TB Samsung 980PRO 200$. Why just 1 year warranty on something as important as a Personal Computer? Why the repair of a faulty Dead SSD is Replacing the whole guts of the computer likely resulting in the customer paying half the price of the machine? Why people dumb and ignorant as shit? Why Apple Evil?
@@codenamegrs9278 you’re literally looking at the bad stuff only, they are actually releasing a computer that is powerful and good for it’s price range. I bet you can’t find a computer that is as powerful as the Mac mini with the same price range.
Just got my Mac mini with M2 Pro ($1299) yesterday and am loving everything about it. I had purchased a base MacBook Air last month, but after seeing the Mini's release this week, was able to return it to Amazon. The performance boost is very sweet!
Honestly love the Mac Mini, I've been using my 2020 Mac Mini for my school work and it's been amazing so far. I think it's great how Apple offers education discounts, and I've been seriously thinking about upgrading to the M2 Mac Mini with 16 GB ram. Any thoughts?
That's the play, and that EDU discount definitely helps soak up the upgrade cost. If you need extra storage down the line, just nab yourself an external drive. Depending on how much you save 256GB might not be enough.
@@Denki Exactly! I was messing with the specs and with the edu discount, it comes out to be $879 for 512gb storage and 16gb ram before taxes, which is very tempting. I don't think the 1 tb storage is worth Apple's cost, so an external drive would definitely be the best bet for more storage down the line.
I've only recently started watching Denki and I have to say I am soooo happy I did. The information is so well presented and organized, its fun to watch, the quality of this channel is just *chefs kiss* 😩👌 12/10
Honestly, if they would just make it so you could update your RAM and storage this would be so much better. It's the one area where a PC version can be an improvement, but like you said, you will be hard pressed to find something with the optimization of the M2 (not sure if the power would be unmatched, but you'd have to shop around and possibly enter into building it yourself to come close) Price is pretty good on this though, which...hey, for Apple, that's a bit of a surprise tbh.
Thanks for this great video. I'm still a bit confused. I'm coming from windows and this will be my first mac. i was going to get the base m2 mac mini, i will only use it for web surfing, basic office stuff like excel / email and to watch videos and listen to music. Now im more confused than ever if the base m2 mac mini will run that ok ?
I bought an M2 mac mini. It's a great computer. I do feel like something that needs to be said is that it has Wi-fi connection problem. It's something that is known. Other then that it is a awesome computer. I love it. Just figured it was something that needed to be said
I am going to use it for MS office, Netflix, youtube, and very occasional editing. Will M2 mac mini base model will serve the purpose with sufficient speed?
Every time Ken records a mac mini setup the desktop background is default, but when he records a macbook setup it always has a anime desktop background Am I the only one to notice that?
If that Macbook Air was a reasonable price, I would 100% buy one. I could make good use of it. But I'm not dropping $1000 for a laptop that is as powerful as a windows laptop that I got brand new for $500, that has 4x more storage.
Is it possible for the team to have someone test autocad and revit on these systems? I haven't really found a solid review / demo of how these work on Apple silicon, the architecture community would be grateful to find out
CAD is really not Mac's strong point, save yourself money and invest in a PC. There are features exclusive to Windows that do not exist in Mac versions at all.
@@uribak9144 that makes sense, I use a windows system anyways - was curious to know as I use a gaming laptop which with it's charging brick is bulky and the battery is what it is - with the impressive performance and battery of the new macs I have been intrigued to know if I can use something similar in the future. But I get why people don't test these machines for CAD stuff. Similarly there was a dream of windows on ARM with no actual future in sight.
I refurbished/used M1 Mac Mini is a great deal if you live in the U.S. If you can afford a 16gb Unified Memory M1 or M2 Mac Mini definitely consider that, future proofing your Mac Mini for future big MacOS updates.
Probably a stupid question so please don't beat me up to much but will this mac mini work with a "cheap-o" screen, keyboard and mouse or does it have to be all apple all the time? P.S. curiosity might have very weak killed the can but satisfaction brought him back. P.P.S. love the videos dude
No such thing as a stupid question! Better to ask and know than to guess. Generally works with any screen with an HDMI port, and any USB mouse/keyboard.
@Denki thanks you very much for replying 😀 but if you have ever watched the early episodes of Southpark, Mr. Garison used to say their was no stupid questions, just stupid people. He, he. Enjoy the rest of your evening
While I am not defending allles ridicule pricing I’d say get as much ram as you can afford to and get an external ssd in the future since it’s a desktop it makes sense
in 2k4 I went hard Anti-Apple with their High $$$ Crap OS on a Dell Intel LAptop. Went Hard Linux on a Dell LAptop LOL Just after Christmas 2020 My wife Surprised Me with an M1 ! Holy Crap! Ordered the 16Gib Model and returned the 8G to BestBuy before the 15 days. Love this Thing! Need to Update to Parallels 18 though.
it's a well priced piece of mac hardware, perfect for people who need in into the ecosystem. like an office pc for developers doing app dev but lives not in macland. they know who their targets are. i don't think this is a good general public rec though. people who can afford apple stuff would just get it done with a macbook of some kind. PCs are for people who appreciate desktop flexibility, which mac mini does not have much of.
Can i say finally apple have the true entry level of Mac? For base specs is at minimum today’s standards but it’s ok and enough for basic uses, i hope apple makes an entry level of MacBook lineup at less then 1000$ like Mac mini
The base-model is fine for most general editing. But if you color grade and use a lot of 3rd party plug-ins, that upgrade to 16GB of RAM is worth it period.
Never gonna buy. Why? I can not upgrade RAM and the SSD on my own, I would much rather buy the Beelink. The Mac Air also offers you a monitor a keyboard and mouse trackpad, that could be the price difference.
Why soldered SSD? Why 3x-4x overpriced Storage per TeraByte. Apple 2TB SOldered SSD ---> 800$. On Amazon , Easily replaceable 2TB Samsung 980PRO 200$. Why just 1 year warranty on something as important as a Personal Computer? Why the repair of a faulty Dead SSD is Replacing the whole guts of the computer likely resulting in the customer paying half the price of the machine? Why people dumb and ignorant as shit? Why Apple Evil?
$600, completely proprietary, not exactly outpacing anything in its price range, locked ecosystem and software where any add-ons or upgrades are egregiously expensive. Eh. For an average consumer maybe, but anybody any more than that should probably consider spending a tad more for a device a lot more capable or getting something similar, but that still punches a little higher out of the box and won't cost as much to use down the road. Mac and Windows are still literally Apples to Oranges for me. Edit note: I was able to overhaul Windows 11 in about an hour or so to look, feel and act a lot like MacOS. Active Dock, the "MenuBar" all decked out and fully functional with a Windows dark theme, widgets drawer with tons to choose from, MacOS cursors and Windows system UI, ect. Can't do stuff like that on a Mac.
Apple products that are actually priced well HITS DIFFERENT 😮
HomePod Mini is at a great price (imo), iPad Mini is exactly priced where it should be, the Mac Mini is a steal. See a trend?
I realized Apple probably wanted to make 16gb of ram the base but didn't want to make the price higher, so they made the base lower so the 16 gb would be 100 bucks more than what the base m1 used to be, so they get the press of the lower price and most people will get 16 gigs for more than the m1 base was.
Why soldered SSD? Why 3x-4x overpriced Storage per TeraByte. Apple 2TB SOldered SSD ---> 800$. On Amazon , Easily replaceable 2TB Samsung 980PRO 200$. Why just 1 year warranty on something as important as a Personal Computer? Why the repair of a faulty Dead SSD is Replacing the whole guts of the computer likely resulting in the customer paying half the price of the machine? Why people dumb and ignorant as shit? Why Apple Evil?
@@codenamegrs9278 you’re literally looking at the bad stuff only, they are actually releasing a computer that is powerful and good for it’s price range. I bet you can’t find a computer that is as powerful as the Mac mini with the same price range.
The base model seems like a good deal, but $200 to add 8GB of RAM is insane.
Yeah and even more for 512gb (at least my country). The base model should be 16gb and 512gb for 800-850$
I agreed, $150 for each upgrade step is more acceptable(not reasonable).🤨💾😎
@@steffenkawa8374 at least 16gb ram. The storage issue is fixable with external storage.
@@steffenkawa8374 Well, its not your average Windows trash. So no.
@@ArthropodSpidey Even so, a lot of people use their Mac for video editing. 16gb is needed for that, with good optimisation or not.
Just got my Mac mini with M2 Pro ($1299) yesterday and am loving everything about it. I had purchased a base MacBook Air last month, but after seeing the Mini's release this week, was able to return it to Amazon. The performance boost is very sweet!
When you add the 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD to make it look like a modern desktop should have, it suddenly becomes not so much of a good deal any more.
Honestly love the Mac Mini, I've been using my 2020 Mac Mini for my school work and it's been amazing so far. I think it's great how Apple offers education discounts, and I've been seriously thinking about upgrading to the M2 Mac Mini with 16 GB ram. Any thoughts?
That's the play, and that EDU discount definitely helps soak up the upgrade cost. If you need extra storage down the line, just nab yourself an external drive. Depending on how much you save 256GB might not be enough.
@@Denki Exactly! I was messing with the specs and with the edu discount, it comes out to be $879 for 512gb storage and 16gb ram before taxes, which is very tempting. I don't think the 1 tb storage is worth Apple's cost, so an external drive would definitely be the best bet for more storage down the line.
I've only recently started watching Denki and I have to say I am soooo happy I did. The information is so well presented and organized, its fun to watch, the quality of this channel is just *chefs kiss* 😩👌 12/10
Honestly, if they would just make it so you could update your RAM and storage this would be so much better. It's the one area where a PC version can be an improvement, but like you said, you will be hard pressed to find something with the optimization of the M2 (not sure if the power would be unmatched, but you'd have to shop around and possibly enter into building it yourself to come close)
Price is pretty good on this though, which...hey, for Apple, that's a bit of a surprise tbh.
you know what else goes hard? that ring Ken's wearing JESUS that's a big boi
Just ordered the MM with 512GB storage. My first desktop Mac. With the $100 discount it stills good deal.
Please make it portable anywhere like having a battery in the empty space and like make it the best.
FFS Apple just make the storage user-upgradable, why do you have to make it so difficult with a short-sighted money grab?
I read the title out of context 💀
I don’t get it
I swear, I was so confused when Ken said "2023". I actually slapped myself when I realized its 2023!
the mac mini is a perfect ARM powered home server. it’s so much more powerful than raspberry pi’s and is so power efficient than x86 machines.
Did you and dave2d switch thumbnails for Mac mini?
Thanks for this great video. I'm still a bit confused. I'm coming from windows and this will be my first mac. i was going to get the base m2 mac mini, i will only use it for web surfing, basic office stuff like excel / email and to watch videos and listen to music. Now im more confused than ever if the base m2 mac mini will run that ok ?
thé m2 pro one is 1500$ where I live… too expensive!
That edit out of the edit edit was great, Ken! ❤
I bought an M2 mac mini. It's a great computer. I do feel like something that needs to be said is that it has Wi-fi connection problem. It's something that is known. Other then that it is a awesome computer. I love it. Just figured it was something that needed to be said
I am going to use it for MS office, Netflix, youtube, and very occasional editing. Will M2 mac mini base model will serve the purpose with sufficient speed?
I never owned any apple device and have no plans to own any in the near future. but here I am watching why new mac mini is the "best" desktop.
It’s the best desktop, even though it looks like a Lenovo Workstation and has the RAM and Storage off of a Steam Deck….
Every time Ken records a mac mini setup the desktop background is default, but when he records a macbook setup it always has a anime desktop background
Am I the only one to notice that?
I'll tell you, when you're working on a video at midnight, anime wallpapers don't matter anymore...
Where can I get that little stand for the mac mini?
Austin's neither of those things are true comment got me 🤣🤣🤣
If that Macbook Air was a reasonable price, I would 100% buy one. I could make good use of it. But I'm not dropping $1000 for a laptop that is as powerful as a windows laptop that I got brand new for $500, that has 4x more storage.
generally curious, what kind of chip in a $500 machine bumps shoulders with an M2?
Is it possible for the team to have someone test autocad and revit on these systems? I haven't really found a solid review / demo of how these work on Apple silicon, the architecture community would be grateful to find out
CAD is really not Mac's strong point, save yourself money and invest in a PC.
There are features exclusive to Windows that do not exist in Mac versions at all.
@@uribak9144 that makes sense, I use a windows system anyways - was curious to know as I use a gaming laptop which with it's charging brick is bulky and the battery is what it is - with the impressive performance and battery of the new macs I have been intrigued to know if I can use something similar in the future. But I get why people don't test these machines for CAD stuff. Similarly there was a dream of windows on ARM with no actual future in sight.
A desktop you can't easily upgrade is out for best desktop to me
What mic do u use
I refurbished/used M1 Mac Mini is a great deal if you live in the U.S. If you can afford a 16gb Unified Memory M1 or M2 Mac Mini definitely consider that, future proofing your Mac Mini for future big MacOS updates.
Probably a stupid question so please don't beat me up to much but will this mac mini work with a "cheap-o" screen, keyboard and mouse or does it have to be all apple all the time?
P.S. curiosity might have very weak killed the can but satisfaction brought him back.
P.P.S. love the videos dude
No such thing as a stupid question! Better to ask and know than to guess.
Generally works with any screen with an HDMI port, and any USB mouse/keyboard.
@Denki thanks you very much for replying 😀 but if you have ever watched the early episodes of Southpark, Mr. Garison used to say their was no stupid questions, just stupid people. He, he. Enjoy the rest of your evening
gotta love the davinki resolve
Btw I love the wallpaper please link it 2:25
While I am not defending allles ridicule pricing I’d say get as much ram as you can afford to and get an external ssd in the future since it’s a desktop it makes sense
Hey guys, you should do a video on the new DualSense Edge Wireless Controller. :))
600$!?!? Gesus, I need one.
Not a apple fan at all, but I'm not gonna lie, that's a pretty well priced computer.
No.
Nice! What's the stand at 0:36 called?
please do the review m4 mac mini. Its available for 500$(student discount) for 16gb ram model
in 2k4 I went hard Anti-Apple with their High $$$ Crap OS on a Dell Intel LAptop.
Went Hard Linux on a Dell LAptop LOL
Just after Christmas 2020 My wife Surprised Me with an M1 !
Holy Crap! Ordered the 16Gib Model and returned the 8G to BestBuy before the 15 days.
Love this Thing! Need to Update to Parallels 18 though.
The slow speed on 256 ssd model in compare to 512 don't bother you at all?
42 or 48 OLED TVs as monitors are ridiculous, too big and burning!
bought base M2 mini just to familiarize with Apple ecosystem and learn some Swift... so far so good ;-)
it's a well priced piece of mac hardware, perfect for people who need in into the ecosystem. like an office pc for developers doing app dev but lives not in macland.
they know who their targets are.
i don't think this is a good general public rec though. people who can afford apple stuff would just get it done with a macbook of some kind. PCs are for people who appreciate desktop flexibility, which mac mini does not have much of.
As always, When buying a Mac slightly over estimate things like RAM and storage you will need just in case because what you get is what you get!
This is true for RAM, but storage is easily expandable with external drive.
Heavy color grading on Final Cut, good one 😂
I thought I was in a VTuber livestream when the BGM started at 01:33
The 60hz is the only reason I’m doubting it sigh
Can i say finally apple have the true entry level of Mac? For base specs is at minimum today’s standards but it’s ok and enough for basic uses, i hope apple makes an entry level of MacBook lineup at less then 1000$ like Mac mini
anyone know what display that is at 1:10?
Patience? I was previously using an 11 inch 2010 MBA at 4gb. if that isn't patience I don't know what is :)
I like the music in the background
For content creation Are any of the upgrades worth adding to get a better 4k60 (shot on shartphone h. 265) editing experience?
The base-model is fine for most general editing. But if you color grade and use a lot of 3rd party plug-ins, that upgrade to 16GB of RAM is worth it period.
@@Denki thanks you made this much easier for me
i hope i can snatch an m1 version for like 400$ but knowing people and apple it will be 900 or something
I'd really love to justify purchasing this for myself ha. It's such a deal.
2:06
Ridiculous still the Mac suffers from the beach ball of death. Even in 2023 this thing exists.
07:28 I didn't expect to see Mori calliope in this video
dad
Great video Ken =)
Never gonna buy. Why?
I can not upgrade RAM and the SSD on my own, I would much rather buy the Beelink.
The Mac Air also offers you a monitor a keyboard and mouse trackpad, that could be the price difference.
Denki can you make a gaming pc video
Ok but did he interrupt you while recording 😡
Yeee its great but if i wanna buy more normal basic cpu/gpu version with 16GB ram and 512GB SSD its 1250EUR in EU xD
Ok but I found one for 420$... Yea I'm buying it
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE! 2:26
the davinki meme to include was based
So nobody’s gonna talk about the title change? 👀
I guess ken really likes mac minis
The way he pronounced "DaVinci" though...
it's davinki 👉👈
if it was running Windows, I'd consider it 💀
Tell Austin I said hi plz
Hey!! It's you!
Looks like everyone on RUclips
is a Content Creator now.
I am just a Lonely Gamer. 😭
Im watching knowing I won't get it
Why soldered SSD? Why 3x-4x overpriced Storage per TeraByte. Apple 2TB SOldered SSD ---> 800$. On Amazon , Easily replaceable 2TB Samsung 980PRO 200$. Why just 1 year warranty on something as important as a Personal Computer? Why the repair of a faulty Dead SSD is Replacing the whole guts of the computer likely resulting in the customer paying half the price of the machine? Why people dumb and ignorant as shit? Why Apple Evil?
Why grammar bad?
@@ThePhil-Osopher if that's all you have to say after what i've said ... Why Braindead ?
Time to switch to mac. bye Windows!
DA VINKI
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First ken
First lolz
$600, completely proprietary, not exactly outpacing anything in its price range, locked ecosystem and software where any add-ons or upgrades are egregiously expensive. Eh. For an average consumer maybe, but anybody any more than that should probably consider spending a tad more for a device a lot more capable or getting something similar, but that still punches a little higher out of the box and won't cost as much to use down the road. Mac and Windows are still literally Apples to Oranges for me.
Edit note: I was able to overhaul Windows 11 in about an hour or so to look, feel and act a lot like MacOS. Active Dock, the "MenuBar" all decked out and fully functional with a Windows dark theme, widgets drawer with tons to choose from, MacOS cursors and Windows system UI, ect. Can't do stuff like that on a Mac.
But yet you're still running windows under the hood which is the big issue.