M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple's best Mac minis
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M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple's best Mac minis
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#2we should pay attention as the high end mac mini is the exact basic performance need for someone starting out in streaming content and editing video files.
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#3It would be strange if the latest release of a computer line was not the best one ever in that line.
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#5It would be strange if the latest release of a computer line was not the best one ever in that line.
It's not only the typical improvements in chip technologies: form factor also plays a significant role here [1]. It's also worth noting that the M4 Pro supports three (or more?) displays.
From a business perspective, I'm eager to see Apple’s Q4 and Q1 reports. My hypothesis is that they might be reshaping the desktop market with these Mac minis.
I think one of the next milestones could be to achieve a fanless model.
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Height: 4.97 cm (1.96″)
Width: 12.70 cm (5.00″)
Depth: 12.70 cm (5.00″)
Weight (M4): 0.67 kg (1.48 lb.)
Weight (M4 Pro): 0.73 kg (1.61 lb.)
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#6I really like it, but the upgrade prices are a major drawback.
In the EU, the base Mini model with 256GB of SSD costs 700 EUR. Upgrading to a more practical 1TB adds an extra 460 EUR, bringing the total to 1,159 EUR.
It’s frustrating that Apple’s upgrade prices are so steep. For context, a top-quality 1TB SSD can be bought here for just 85 EUR.
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#7Someone at exolabs is running a cluster of these for AI:
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#8You can only really conclude that in a few years time, after we find out if they are any hardware/software issues
I've gone right off Apple. Their iOS 17.x update bricked my 2.5 year old iPhone 12, my neighbour's M3 Air yesterday got stuck in a boot loop after an update and not even recovery mode works so it's being sent for a service, Sequoia is/was full of bugs. My perfectly fine 2015 MBP turned useless with newer OSes due to awful performance. Our work M1s are starting to develop faults too
I feel it's quite clear they're deprioritising quality, QA and software defect rates for releasing yearly N+1, and performance
Yes, they made some nice chips but there's more to "best ever x" than performance
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#9I really like it, but the upgrade prices are a major drawback. In the EU, the base Mini model with 256GB of SSD costs 700 EUR. Upgrading to a more practical 1TB adds an extra 460 EUR, bringing the total to 1,159 EUR. It’s frustrating that Apple’s upgrade prices are so steep. For context, a top-quality 1TB SSD can be bought here for just 85 EUR.
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#10It would be strange if the latest release of a computer line was not the best one ever in that line.
Two points
It is strange that the "entry level" computer in 2024 competes and sometimes wins against the 2022 fully-decked out M2 and the original M1 Ultra.
The M3 Pro had a DECREASE in number of P-cores compared to the M2 Pro.
That was very strange and unexplainable.