Apple Needs a Mac Pro mini!

$6,000?! What about a Mac Pro for the rest of us? Snazzy Labs looks at the NZXT H1 SFF PC case.
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Snazzy Labs makes a case for a smaller, modular Mac; a Mac Pro mini. The Mac Pro is great and all, but its $6,000 starting price point and "one-size-fits-all-pros" approach means its financially out of reach for many of us mere mortals. But rather than turn to hackintosh land, why couldn't Apple just make a smaller ATX or mini-ITX sized Mac Pro mini—one with the same upgradable RAM, CPU, GPU, and more for less money and in a smaller case? Snazzy Labs takes a look at the new NZXT H1 mini-ITX SFF case. With a built-in AIO, SFF PSU, and PCIe riser card for the GPU, this case is ready to rumble from the factory. Just insert your mini ITX motherboard, attach the cooler, plug-in the pre-wired cables and insert your GPU. That's it. You're done. The whole build takes less than 10 minutes. Pretty freaking awesome for what are historically nightmarish cases to build in.

[snazzy]

ATTN: Have more than a couple comments that believe NZXT sponsored or paid for this video. They did not. I received $0. We were excited about this case but wanted to pivot it away from a traditional review into something different. In so doing we might have lost perspective. I apologize and we’ll do better in the future.

[RiccardoDAlessio]

Finally someone who doesn’t talk like video editing is the only “pro” workload existing at this world

[SamGalt]

I watched about half a dozen NZXT H1 reviews today, but I have to admit you baited me here perfectly with the Mac Pro Mini theme... I never saw the H1 coming on this one! 😂

[aliozanerbektas]

For a second I really thought that you were gonna make another hackintosh video...

[StuffYouMightLike]

Comes for the Mac Pro Mini headline... Ends up watching a video on a PC build.... Hmmmm....

[TechLens]

5:36 - so fast, Cinebench runs backward 🤣

[aef]

i literally just came from MKBHD's Video where he talked about how he wished there was a cheaper mac tower for more consumers.

[shunulu]

I saw "Mac Pro Mini" in the title and instantly fell in love this idea. Apple must consider this very "seriously". Perfect idea.

[TruthAndMoreTruth]

I've been saying for years that Apple needs something between an iMac and Mac Pro. Something that you can run multiple screens with up gradable components.

[SCtester]

They should honestly just enlarge the Mac Mini, add support for dedicated graphics cards, and call it a day. I don't think they need to reinvent the wheel - if not for the lack of a GPU, the Mac Mini would fit the bill perfectly for a machine in this category. And it's not like many people care about the size of a desktop computer in the first place.

[akashnba]

I’m glad you mentioned AutoCAD. I never remember anyone else ever mentioning it. I guess Tech Jesus Steve did once.

[Cuzzupino]

consumer grade componets some pcie slot and call it "Mac"...
I've been waiting for it for 20 years

[amansenpai]

It's 4:22 am here and I'm watching videos of products that My whole family can't afford

[Mrwhosethesus]

"Mac Mini Mini" imagine that

[tipoomaster]

Like many, I don't hate this machine, I'm very happy they made it. But I do wish they made a Threadripper 3000 model under it, for those of us who can live without a few workstation motherboard features like ECC (afaik, Threadripper supports using it, but disables the parity bit), in exchange for much more multithreaded performance and WAY more per dollar.

[MarioMastr]

2 years later and that has come true with the Mac studio

[shamgarsan]

An mATX class Mac would be amazing for some of my workloads. Particularly when I need to combine a powerful GPU and a bunch of SDI connections. Thunderbolt bandwidth gets tight pretty quickly when stitching together several projectors.

[francissreckofabian]

I'd be interested to see how the NZXT H1 could be turned into a Hackintosh. Especially as it "seems" like there isn't a lot of work involved.

[EposVox]

MFW I regularly utilize all PCIe lanes I can get on Threadripper 3000 and beyond for video capture/editing purposes... Apple just doesn't make/support the things I need/use it for.

[unojustaj]

Half this video is just a big ad for some headsets and NZXT...