New Mac Mini with M4

Post by reissbaker » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

Y-bar wrote: post #272

angoragoats wrote: post #261

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The memory bandwidth on Apple silicon is only sometimes comparable to, and in many cases worse than, that of a GPU. For example, an nVidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GPU (not a high-end card by any means) has memory bandwidth of 288GiB/sec, which is more than double that of the M4 CPU. On the higher end, building a machine with 6 to 8 24GB GPUs such as RTX 3090s would be comparable in cost (as well as available memory) to a hi…

Note that they said the _Mac Studio_ which in the M2 model has between 400GB/s and 800GB/s memory bandwidth. https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/ Edit: since my reply you have edited your comment to mention the Studio, but the fact remains that the M2 Max has at least ~40% greater bandwidth than the number you quoted as an example.

Post by pantalaimon » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 4:35 PM UTC

vineyardlabs wrote: post #30

Afforess wrote: post #16

This seems like the perfect home media transcoding server (Plex, Kodi, etc). I am curious if these will ever be able to run Linux.

Almost certainly. Asahi linux is getting pretty useable on M1 and M2. They don't support M3 yet, let alone M4, but support will surely come eventually.

Post by sib » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

ayewo wrote: post #292

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I have an NVME SSD on a TB enclosure and I get 2600MB/s read speeds on my Mac Studio.

Mind sharing which brand you use for external storage?

Post by jsheard » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 4:38 PM UTC

rtkwe wrote: post #298

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Right. The repairability argument is the reasonable discussion to have. The silly pricing games are more of a red herring.

I think it's more relevant with Apple because they've removed all the competition for basically all upgrades to their devices by either soldering things to the board or bundling them into their SOC. When there's no alternative their prices become the only option.

Post by sib » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 4:39 PM UTC

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animal_spirits wrote: post #37

> Mac mini is made with over 50 percent recycled content overall, including 100 percent recycled aluminum in the enclosure, 100 percent recycled gold plating in all Apple-designed printed circuit boards, and 100 percent recycled rare earth elements in all magnets. The electricity used to manufacture Mac mini is sourced from 100 percent renewable electricity. And, to address 100 percent of the electricity customers us…

What does it mean for the gold to be "recycled"? I get that the aluminum probably came for a pile of cans, but does this mean that the gold definitely came from a pile of electronics? Or could it be that they melted down a few old $20 coins from the US? It's not like a lot of gold ends up in landfills.