Mac Mini M4 - 1 MONTH Review! [M2 vs M4 vs M4 Pro]

1 Month Review of the M4 Mac Mini - versus M2 Mini, M4 Pro Mini & M2 Ultra Studio! Which should you buy, and what's the best setup?

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00:00 Old vs New
02:22 I/O
04:16 Mini Setups
05:41 Specs
06:12 Benchmarks
08:37 Too Hot?
09:41 Should you buy?

[jccnguyen]

What I like most about the mac mini lineup is it always uses internal power adapter

[bryans]

I'm part of the "most people" crowd, and the base M4 mini is perfect for my use case (I've had it for about three weeks).

[trekrich]

I bought the m4 and bumped up the storage to 512. And its been great. I only turn on my windows machine just to play specific games. Everything else is done on the mac mini. Very happy with my purchase.

[kraigbailey]

I got 2. A base M4 with 512 SSD to use as a media server and a tricked out M4 Pro with 48 RAM/2TB SSD for editing & video conversions, hooked up to a Studio Display that I already had.

[markb]

I just moved from Windows, bought a base spec M2 mini, perfect for browsing, email and YT. Wife on the other hand, plays Sims4. so she got the Base model M4 mini.... bloody amazing! everything just works

[MBRelaxBase]

i swiched from iMac 27" 2019 to the mac mini m4 pro, 64GB ram

[nitrobear]

For the comment section: PLEASE spare him the mercy to remain unbeknownst to what a power bottom is. Let him stay happy.

[oliverpigram]

I just got the M4 pro model, loving it

[GlennEdell]

I bought the base model. Then I moved the Home-folder to an external USB4 SSD with 2TB of storage. Whoopee... now you have a workhorse machine and have cheated Apple on their Apple-tax for storage. I get along fine with 16gb of ram. Important not to use the external harddrive as main startup as you will loose some functions doing that... just move the home folder. It's a bit tricky to do (but not difficult at all), but once it's done you have a crazy fast Mac mini with a huge storage hard drive and you don't have to think about ever moving things around. The main harddrive will only be used for the Mac OS.
I use Hypers SSD USB4 enclosure which is crazy a fast 40gb/s external drive.
This is by far the best solution if you want to keep costs down.
My total cost for this setup landed on 920 dollars including tax. Buying this setup from Apple would've been 1969 dollars incl tax. I also sold my old Mac mini for 500 dollars, so what I payed in cash was 420. Pretty sweet!
(Side note... I always shop from their education store since they never ever check if your're eligible ;) That also keeps the cost down.)

[techhubwiltsuk]

I ended up getting the Mac mini M4 standard chip with 24 GB of RAM. I do semipro tasks like Final Cut Pro and it keeps up as well as my M1 Max studio Mac did.

[MichaelRuppJapan]

The port speeds are actually gigabits per second, not gigabytes! You said it right in the video, 40 gigabits/sec, but then the graphic mistakenly corrected it to 40 gigabytes/second. There are 8 bits in a byte, so that would be 320 gigabits/sec. It seems like quite a few tech reviewers stumble with the bits versus bytes...

[jodalry]

Hey, here’s and idea. Instead of putting the Velcro on the bottom of your Mac mini, what about putting it on the top where the Apple logo is. This way, you can easily reach the power button instead of having to un-peel the whole mac whenever you need to do a hard restart? In addition, this will allow more airflow around the base keeping the whole affair cooler. After all, if you’ve stuck it on the back of your monitor anyway, it not like anyones going to see it. 🙂

[WybremGaming]

And it is quite capable of gaming as well, in 1080p. Benchmarked 30 games or so. Incredibly value for money!

[Midland_Wolf_]

I bought the base model on launch day (I always buy the base model). Coming from the M1 Mini I’m VERY happy with my purchase. I also bought an additional 1Tb NVME and a cheap AF TB4 enclosure and so far it’s amazing. I don’t do video or anything of that nature, I’m an old school Art/Graphics/Print guy but this is hands down the best value Mac I’ve ever had (my first was a 2nd hand 2CX in 1994).
For anyone in any doubt, the M4 is a phenomenal machine.

[Sonic-Boom]

I've had my base model with 512gb for a few weeks now with a 2tb Sandisk SSD attached. It's perfect for my needs.

[ZoneProduction]

I ordered the M4 Pro 14c CPU/20c GPU, 1TB SSD, and 24GB of memory. My last Mac was a intel 27-inch, 2012, iMac that stopped working 5 years ago. The current iMacs screen sizes are too small. Personally, I don’t like the front design, but they look great from the back. The M4 Pro configuration I have chosen will be perfect for my needs.

[morrigansraven]

The Mac Mini is so tempting, and I've always used PC's and have fought the urge to climb into the walled garden. I need to replace an older Windows 10 home theater PC and the Mac Mini looks like a great deal

[Huaihaizi]

3:54 it’s a power bottom hahahahahahja😂😂😂😂😂

[MasterChiefU]

Apple did something with the base 256gb drive and the 512gb. As the 512gb is twice as fast as the 256gb... This made a huge difference in reindeer speeds and smoother editing. So not sure whats going on there. I think the OS makes better use of the bigger SSD sizes...As they only use two chips on the board now. One on each side..

[NomadicBloke]

I do kinda professional video production and mid-range 3D rendering jewelry for my clients.

I ordered a base spec model with 24gb and 256 ssd, this is an upgrade from my 2019 27" 5k iMac.