Building the Ultimate Mac Mini

The latest Mac Mini is pretty solid but it's time to give it the Ultimate treatment.

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[AarmOZ]

Moral of the story: You can turn your Mac Mini into a supercomputer for the additional price of an iMac Pro.

[legosi]

*plot* *twist:* *he's* *preparing* *for* *a* *dollar* *shave* *club* *sponsorship*

[Ha-uekg]

April 2019:

Game of Thrones Final Season

Avengers Endgame

Austin Not Shaving

[Straiferdt]

"it's so old that it uses Thunderbolt 2"
me: *cries in usb 2.0*

[opesorryboutthat]

title should be: putting ram into a Mac mini, then buying accessories

[archiepalmer-phelps]

austin: we dont want to spend $300 extra for 1TB of space
also austin: so instead we are using a $1200 dollar extra storage tower

[Dezbo]

Mac mini, I though you were building the ultimate oven

[rafaelortega]

Next: Building the ultimate
moustache

[ApexBit]

Uses wireless Logitech keyboard, decides against wireless MX Master... Okay.

[rmaha]

Really great video. I just purchased a 2018 Mac mini and upgraded the RAM to 32 GB, and attached an external hard drive and EGPU through Thunderbolt 3. So far, very impressed.

[MrKarco]

Austin: Adds 4 gpu's
Austin: plays 0 games
me: :(

[bingliu]

Apple offers an 64GB RAM option, so 32GB is definitely not ultimate.

[sahajmamgain]

No one
No one: Austin’s moustache looks good

[neonlights_]

"Building the ultimate mac mini"
Changes ram

[iamcheesemaster]

Austins got a nice drug dealing mustache

[EnkiTurboD]

Austin : LETS BUILD THE ULTIMATE MAC MINI
Me : WHAT THE HELL YOU HAVE NOT CHANGED THE THERMAL PASTE
*thermal throttling*

[ArtyShat]

wireless keyboard and wired mouse? wtf austin, use MX Master 2s !

[TechnoDad]

Hi! I was wondering about getting a 2018 Mac Mini with the following specs: 3.2 6-core i7, 32 GB Ram, 1TB SSD, 10 Gb Ethernet, and adding an eGPU with a 16GB video card. Would that be good enough for 4K video editing in FCPx?

[maiconjunior]

5:00 at this point you might aswell buy an iMac

[Panglos]

I did the most important parts of what was done here as soon as the 2018 mini was released, but on a smaller and more cost-effective scale: I found a good (560R/520W) 1TB SSD for $100 and put it in a case I had for extra storage; Newegg was running a sale on an LG 27" 4K monitor for $259 (plus a $20 coupon) the month of the mini's release; and I got the best deal on good (Crucial, if I remember right) RAM I could find. The only thing I would do better if I was spending more like these guys did would be to get 64GB of RAM. And maybe work harder to find a deal on a 2GB eternal SSD. Still, I ended up with a solid second rig for not too much money. Doing it now with an Apple refurbished mini still wouldn't be a bad idea.