Mac Mini Late 2012 - Can it handle html5 1080p60 1440p/2160p YT?

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Hey, bit of a long shot but wondering if anyone with this Mini can say if it can handle 1080p60 and 1440p/2160p youtube content, be it windowed or fullscreen without stuttering etc?

I've asked around other sites but no one has an answer for me, so I'm looking for users who've have/had this machine.

Thanks for any insight you can offer!
 
Yep, smooth as silk. 4K no problem at all, both windowed and full screen.
 
rotor said:
Yep, smooth as silk. 4K no problem at all, both windowed and full screen.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to check this out for me rotor, appreciate it!

Which Late 2012 mini do you have per chance the 2.3 or 2.6??

I'm looking to buy the 2.6GHz Quad i7 unit, with 16Gb & SSD. Very tempting for my media consumption, kinda why I wanted to check YT playback, my old mini (2009) is on its last legs!
 
Neither! It's the 2.5 GHz Core i5 with 16GB RAM. For reference it has Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB.

The i7 is rare as hen's teeth, did you manage to find one for a good price? I picked the i5 as the balance model, the i7 is always a lot more (£200+).

I've had it for around a year (bought it 2nd hand), and I couldn't be more pleased with it. It's very zippy, silent, always resumes from sleep, consumes very little power...
 
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Oh wow, okay, thats good to know. Yea they all share the 4000 1536MB I believe.

I know what you mean, just looking at the completed/sold listings for either the i7 2.3 or 2.6 command about 600-800, 5 years after release!

Think I've got one for 650, just debating if to pull the trigger. That question about YT playback plagued me though, so thanks for settling it for me!
 
Last year I paid £300 (Gumtree) for my i5 with 16GB and the original 500GB spinning disk (which I promptly upgraded to a 500GB SSD). I honestly don't think the i7 is worth the premium, especially for a five year old computer. Put the extra 300 towards a used MacBook or something like that. A few months later I bought a second one for my wife (also with 16GB) for £250 from the same guy (he gave me a discount).

My i5 is the 3210M which has a PassMark of 3806, while the i7 is the 3720QM with an impressive PassMark of 8145. Given how happy I am with the i5, there's no way I'd pay £350 extra purely for the i7. It would be very nice to have, but I honestly don't feel the need for a non-gaming, general purpose Mac. It drives my Dell U2412M at 1920x1200 via Mini DisplayPort flawlessly. Zero complaints! You could probably easily get £100-150 for your 2009 (although I'd make it into a Mac Server to run TimeMachine backups to).
 
I'm running a quad i7 2.2Ghz with HD4000 graphics, albeit in a laptop not a mini. Playing those videos bit a peak of 8% CPU usage in Activity Monitor at 4k...

That said I only have a 1080p screen, maybe it has smarts to only play in 1080p mode? It did say 4k...
 
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