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Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by wrldos »

crypt1d wrote: post #7

disappointed to see them still selling these with 8gb RAM. More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 mac mini edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment.

16Gb is minimum on M1 I found. I hit problems on my 8Gb machine regularly. It’ll work fine but you do get heavy pauses.

The thing to be careful of is if your custom config breaks then the turnaround to fix it can be a couple of months. Ergo only buy stock configs. That makes the market somewhat less friendly.

Re: New Mac Mini

#43

Post by seanw444 »

cmatthias wrote: post #16
bilal4hmed wrote: post #4

can this run dual monitors?

Almost certainly. The Thunderbolt spec requires any port labeled "Thunderbolt 4" to support dual 4k/60hz displays. You'll note that, for example, on the Macbook Air (both M1 and M2 versions), Apple labels the ports "Thunderbolt / USB 4," which is confusing and IMHO downright misleading. Either way, the reason they do that is that those ports don't support dual displays, so they only meet the Thunderbolt 3 spec, which…

USB standards are a giant clusterfuck. I don't know how they managed to get it to this point.

Re: New Mac Mini

#45

Post by lvl102 »

Why get the M2 Pro Mini when you can just opt for Mac Studio with M1 Max? They're roughly in the same price bracket.

Re: New Mac Mini

#46

Post by varjag »

susrev wrote: post #10

Apple is the undisputed king of never putting actual benchmarks in their info-graphs

Yup unless there's a LINPACK comparing it to VAX 11/780 it's deeply unserious.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by [deleted] »

seanw444 wrote: post #31
counttheforks wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. You can add more Tell that to Apple so they can do that out of the box. > 8GB of RAM today feels like what 32GB of RAM used to No. I think you're confusing memory speed with capacity. Making ram faster doesn't mean it can magically store more.

If it's running an SSD, at least the swap speed won't be as crippling. Assuming it uses any.

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Re: New Mac Mini

#49

Post by smoldesu »

wrldos wrote: post #41
crypt1d wrote: post #7

disappointed to see them still selling these with 8gb RAM. More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 mac mini edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment.

16Gb is minimum on M1 I found. I hit problems on my 8Gb machine regularly. It’ll work fine but you do get heavy pauses. The thing to be careful of is if your custom config breaks then the turnaround to fix it can be a couple of months. Ergo only buy stock configs. That makes the market somewhat less friendly.

Same here. I've heard people argue that 8gb is enough for web browsing, and while that is true, I genuinely struggle to imagine a use-case that doesn't max out the memory within 30 minutes of usage.

Re: New Mac Mini

#50

Post by gymbeaux »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #28
gymbeaux wrote: post #23

$4,500 maxed out. $4,500 for a Mac mini. God. They really think people are going to pay $4,500 for a Mac mini, don't they?

No, it's $599, with a load of extra customised options that allow people to add what they want, you cannot even buy this one in a store, you have to do a custom order, your regular user, walking into an electronic store will buy a base model. You've specced it up with every customisation possible, that 999.999999% of buyers won't do and won't need and then complain at the cost in an effort to bash Apple,

I'm not trying to bash Apple in bad faith, but let's be real the $599 model is inadequate. 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD in 2023. There's plenty out there on the M1 Mac mini's 8GB being a bad idea even for casual users. I had an 8GB M1 mini when it first came out and returned it because it was swapping to the SSD with like 3 apps open (nothing like an IDE or Docker or Adobe X Y Z).

I just find it humorous that you can spend several thousand dollars on a Mac mini, Mac Pro, or Mac Studio. It seems like there's a lot of product overlap to me.

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