Mac Mini M2 in 2024 | General Use & Programmers Review (A Year Later)

The Mac Mini is probably one of the most underated computers out there. To be frank, I think at its base price, the base model Mac Mini M2 definitely kills most of its competition. This here is my one year long term review. A video that was sponsored by Laifen with their latest Apple like Toothbrush.

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00:00 | Intro
00:59 | Base Model Experience
04:03 | Need to upgrade?
06:54 | Size is GREAT!+ Laifen
09:46 | Desk Setup Use
11:21 | Performance degradation
14:06 | Mac Mini Pro vs M3 Mac Mini vs Mac Studio
15:37 | Buying Refurbished + Final Thoughts

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[justinhairston]

Time to get my coffee and enjoy the show

[bassyey]

No crashes in mine Mac mini M2 16GB. I mainly use it for guitar/bass playing recording, no crashes or anything. I'm a developer too, but more on embedded field and backend. I don't use emulators. We deploy to AWS. So I just manage my instances from the mac mini. I don't have memory pressure issues. I have a 4TB SSD in an enclosure. Very good product. It's my first Apple product. I think I'll get a Studio next time since I'm satisfied.

[gourish]

what an video man, the tension between macmini and my my add to cart is getting tense

[Siviqs]

the quality of these videos are astronomically great! god if only you would post more than just Sunday's! I mean it's understandable, the time and effort to bring this type of quality and editing does take time! but nevertheless i enjoy waking up and getting my morning hot chocolate or tea and enjoy watching!

[tokkyor]

Yep im definetly buy a 16 or 18 go mac, thank you sir. And again, editing is fire . Much love from France bro

[berend]

This is the reason why I didn't cheap out on ram and rom when I bought my m1 pro machine, I tend to use my machine for many years.

[anthonylindt]

Lmao I just sold mine like 2 hours ago😭😭😭

[MJ_HTX]

Excellent review. I battled with the idea of getting a Mac Mini a while back. I considered future proofing and ultimately ended up getting the M1 Max Mac Studio 1TB. Then like a month later, the M2 Mac Studio came out. My M1 Mac Studio is still performing excellently.

[HappyStep]

Amazing vid, I bought the base m2 mac mini a couple months ago. Use it for light coding, admin work, lots of entertainment (youtube) and studying on Udemy/Notetaking on notion. No hiccups, love my mac!

[MrMengAnn]

To be honest 8G 256 is enough for daily use, more powerful than 700-1k$ window pc. Never regret to own one

[MarkMartin]

As always bro when im feeling down about something you come through with a post that says keep going appreciate that 🙏

[semajm]

other video's feel like reviews, your videos feel like a story is being told. Its also ingenious how you weave ad spots in. never once did i fast forward or skip to certain parts, always watching from start to finish. kudos man!

[shashikantsuman]

It doesn’t matter whether the video is relevant to me or not but the entire production value and voice is a treat to watch..I dont have macmini but still i watched the entire video

[arjosburner]

I mainly use mine for programming, took it into deep waters, especially for my last year of uni. keeping loads apps open for long periods of time (days and weeks), even when im not using it, its a very good machine in terms of performance, but only problem is it crashes quite frequently. id take a break or wake up and come back to it having a full restart saying its crashed which was just frustrating.

-base m2 pro

[hafuridotus]

Still rocking the M2 Mac Mini with 16 GB, grabbed it on sale through B&H. It's the best value Mac you can buy imo. I still have my Windows Desktop as a min rig, but my partner loves it for their schooling. PS, thanks for doing the LC C2 video, grabbed an LG C3 and it's perfect for my PC as a monitor!

[zaytovenX]

i come back from church to see you make my day

[MarbsMusic]

I had a M1 Studio I used for Audio in my studio but found myself using my MBP too often and having to transfer files so I sold it. Fast forward about 6 month and I'm really missing having something in there for light use. Picked up a base model Mini and it's great and if I don't use it a lot I don't feel like I have wasted a bunch of $$$. Definitely more than powerful enough for general use and light audio work, especially if you already have external NVMe drives for speed. Very nice review!

[ckubes]

Yo bro your vids...you really are one of the best laptop reviewer in my opinion....

[bss__li]

10:50 OMG I feel pain from that tweeter😖

[ndcreations]

I had been using my M1 base mac book for a while and have recently upgrade to a mac studio. The extra ram and ssd space makes a huge difference.