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This is the MAC MINI Apple SHOULD'VE Created... - Reviewing a mini PC from Geekom called A7, it's smaller and more powerful than the Mac mini. Let's dive deeper!

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0:00 Intro
0:22 Sponsored Segment
0:50 Size & IO Comparison
3:10 Price Comparison
4:24 CPU test - Cinebench R24
5:35 Geekbench 6 CPU
6:00 Blender
6:14 Pugetbench for Photoshop
6:40 Video Editing
7:40 GPU
8:07 Powerdraw & Temps
9:50 Teardown
12:56 Which one I recommend?

[GEEKOMPC]

Thank you for reviewing our product. It's an interesting comparision haha. Your feedback on GEEKOM products is highly valuable to us!😉

[livinginoklahomacityofficial]

I'm a little confused when you got to the video editing comparison. I watched it 4 times haha. You said the mac mini crashed using premiere pro, and then went on to say if you want to do any video editing that you'd recommend the mac mini as a better option. Is there some context missing here, where "this machine crashed" equals the "better option"? Beyond that, what brought me here was trying to figure out if this geekom can handle 4k video editing, so I was excited you were going to discuss its performance... and then you simply showed the "score", stating "this is not necessarily good", but gave zero context for what WOULD be good in terms of a score. It would be helpful to know some objective measurement of HOW GOOD it was, compared to what a "good" score would have been. A little disappointed for how inconclusive that part of your assessment was tbh.

[kevinpitts]

Would have loved to see a comparison of a video project rendered times between these units. Davinci or capcut.

[ZeerakImran]

USB4 is not necessarily equal to thunderbolt (otherwise it would be advertised heavily to be). USB4 starts with 20gbps, half of thunderbolt 4. Big difference. USB4 is essentially thunderbolt 2 or worse than thunderbolt 2 due to its criteria as well as ambiguous bandwidth expectations (welcome to the world of USB standards - can't name anything for the life of them). USB4 also only requires a power delivery of 7.5W, so not enough to charge phones satisfactorily let alone laptops. If possible, could you please identify the actual bandwidth of the usb4 port. Also, macs have really good hardware reliability (best out of the top 4 manufacturers - third party with real purchase data used), which ofc gives peace of mind regarding your data but also means that the second hand market is even better than it already is for apple products. I bought an m1 mac mini for £350. That's incredible. Then there is the power efficiency and I'm going to ignore the other smaller things which matter a lot such as fan noise, resale value, ethernet or wifi standard and gain/power, bluetooth efficiency, power, standard and the external power pack which let's face it, isn't ideal. Still a great product and I fully support the company if you do. It looks like a great product and I haven't researched it much so I'm not here to review, compare or criticise anything. Just here to provide points and information to consider. Just painting the picture.

[glennloopez]

the pc sounds pretty amazing, yet I am not sold this is a super computer for everyday life. Would love to see some real life examples. What kinda chipset are they using? what is the speed of the ram and the drive? I'm a Windows guy, but I would be shocked if this little box did beat the Mac mini for music production. There is a program called Latency Mon - I would love to see how this box reports back

[tomschmidt]

Thanks for comparison. However, most people will have already chosen their platform (MacOS, Windows, Linux). Thus these items are almost NEVER in competition with each other. This comparison is more about showing us the state of the hardware. You minimize the power draw issue, which translates into heat/noise. I think that this matters to many users. I like that the Geekom product is upgradable. However, stats show that most users/companies NEVER upgrade their hardware. I am not sure how much people care that the Geekom is smaller. At some point device is just sitting in the corner of the desk. I think that the support for multiple displays is a big advantage for Geekom. Anyway, thanks for the comparison...

[mitchthehxr]

I actually like this system might sell my MacBook Pro, buy one of these and pocket the difference thank you so much for the review

[BubbaPat]

One of the benefits of having a MacMini versus a PC is that all of Apple's software is so nicely integrated. I can use my iPad in conjunction with my Mini. I know there are Windows equivalent apps out there but I've dealt with stuff like that years ago. This little PC is one that I would consider for friends who on't want to do Apple.

[akin]

MacBooks are great laptops, but non-Apple mini-PCs are better for most people.

For mini-PCs using Windows/Linux:
- Adjustable RAM and SSD.
- Smaller. Leading to more space on a desk.
- Can game at 1080p on them, especially with AMD Radeon iGPU 780M
- Good to great CPU performance.

Mac minis are better for advance video editing and DJ work.

[peterbreis]

An external power supply makes sense, but you really should have shown the Geekom _with_ the power supply.

You can get Mac minis discounted and macOS comes with 80+ office, productivity, creative and utility Apps and they are mostly very good.

What support and corporate longevity are you going to get with the Geekom?

You could do more to make this an equal comparison, but Apple is going to cost more for the hardware, compensated for by being ready to use out of the box with no expensive rentware like with the PC.

[thestype]

Got a Mac mini and a Mini PC, they feel totally different.
920 Euros: My Mac mini M2, sitting on a vertical stand that contains an NVME slot. So the specs are 256GB + 1TB Crucial P5 and 16GB RAM. This beast is silent.
547 Euros: My Mini PC Barebone with Ryzen 7 7840HS and Kingston Fury 32GB RAM + Crucial P5 500GB. It looks cool (made a Youtube short), has a 90mm Fan which is not whiny but far from silent.

[julianfp]

I'm not the only one to mention this in comments but I think there are a few other mini PCs that could make the case against the Mac Mini even more strongly based and the smallest step from what you review here I think would be one based on the Ryzen 7940HS and with twin M2 slots e.g. the Minisforum UM790 Pro. The 7940HS would increase the performance difference a bit more but also critically with the absolutely massive price difference between a maximum spec Mac Mini and a barebones UM790 Pro a user could spend a lot of money on his/her RAM spec and very big SSD storage across both of the M2 slots and still come in noticeably cheaper than the Mac Mini with way more RAM and secondary storage all in the much smaller chassis.

Both Ryzen-based and Intel-based mini PCs are becoming pretty amazing beasts now.

[OneFlow.Cacique]

It was a great video, I have a question, the usb c port in the geekom work with a thunderbolt cable like the mac mini? Because the mac mini is thunderbolt and usb c at the same time rigth? But what about the geekom usb c port?

[OOTheBlueAir]

very nice, buts its close to the m2 pro in price. 850 vs 1265 and when we talk this close, why not go to the m2 pro?

[ecur]

For me it comes down to the OS, I prefer Mac OS way more than Windows so this comparison means nothing to me. I have the first M1 chip Mac Mini and I'm really happy with it. I'm going to upgrade soon to the M2 chip. It was definitely interesting to watch your video but not a Mac Mini killer.

[Hard__Iron]

I use MacOS and Windows both! 2 years ago it was STRICTLY MacOS. But the Windows side of development has caught up recently and is much more competitive. I still believe the Apple premium is not worth the price you pay! And I own 4 of them and a couple of iPads too. But in these last few years, I find myself using my Lenovo’s (P3 Mini Workstation & a X1 Carbon laptop) more and more for day to day life. And with 5 kids, I could see this Geekom platform being a very handy solution.

[flashbak]

I've jumped ship back to PC from the Mac Mini M1. Tired of how Apple continually locks down it's hardware and presents no upgradability path. I just purchased the Minis Forum UM790-Pro with my following configuration: Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU, 32 Gb (5600) ram, and a 1 Gb NVME. I like it bettter then the Geekom A7 because it incorporates two NVME slots and can do 8K at 60hz whereas the Geekom A7 only does 8K at 30Hz. Otherwise, the included ports are the same. The UM790-Pro can also do raid 0 and 1. I'm not a gamer and there's no way I'm going back to building a mid tower PC anymore. These newer mini PC's are powerhouses and the future! Asta La Vista Apple!

[NicolaAnelli]

The 2 USB on the mac mini are NOT 2.0 but 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbps).

[Hasbert]

Sorry, but the two USB-A ports on the backside of the Mac mini are 10Gbit! Not USB2. Besides it depends, what you want to do with a mini PC. The primary reason to buy a Mac should be the software you want to use.
2.5 times as fast, not 2.5 times faster....
2.25 times the powerdraw longterm and 3 times the powerdraw in the boost window.
It's a powersupply, not a
Too many mistakes in a single video.

[AndrejMeuer]

For 4 TB single sided there is one SSD: Samsung SSD 990 PRO