*** The official 2023 and 2024 Mac mini thread (it has the M2 chip, the M4 chip and everything!) ***

Andrew Moore said:
Given what’s come out of the m2 pro mini, a similar spec m2 pro 12/19 with 10g nic and 32gb of ram is the same price as the M1 Max 10/24 studio… I’m sure the extra horse power would be nice in the cpu department from the mini but the GPU would at a guess still be served a little short and I’m used to the 10/32 M1 Max found in the 16”.

I think I’ll be waiting on the studio refresh with the 12/30 or 12/38 assuming it doesn’t break the bank but I can’t see that happening given the latest prices for the UK on apple product.

I was looking at the ultra but I can’t justify it’s price nor the fact it has issues still with scaling.
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Then when the M3 Max comes out and the real disappointment occurs. N5-N3 will be super big, the M2 Max studio will also see the hefty price increase like all the BTO models have.
 
Looks great, could really go for four TB4 ports but nothing I've thrown at my 16GB M1 version gives it any bother. It's tempting to upgrade but I really don't think it's going to be needed for 4 more years.
 
My M2 Mini has shipped via DHL and is currently in Shenzhen China. Guess they ship the custom builds straight from the factory.
 
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ChrisD. said:
It's just a suite of apps, and they work perfectly well.

Compared to the entire OS with Win 10 (and even worse Win 11) being meh.
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100%. I don't know what in the Sam hill Microsoft is playing at with Win 11 but they appear to be just ignoring the UI and trying to make money off people via targeted adverts in the OS.

I setup One Drive on my laptop and it pretty much borked my install and left me annoyed. I just want to use MS Word. I don't want to have to keep finding work arounds for the stupid layout and user policies.

I started using MS Word 2019 on my Mac Mini 2010 and Mac OS just works. I don't get disturbed with stupid notifications and saving the documents is just easy and not a chore.

I love my gaming PC but I would move to a Mac Mini or Mac Book for work if I could.
 
Decided to look at one of these to replace my aging 2011 i7 PC. I hardly do anything on it anymore, light gaming and browsing and it is housed in a monstrous Corsair case so after weighing up the pro's and cons, I can move across well enough as I really, really want to get away from Windows faff after being with it forever. I'll use the mini for the same things alongside managing my NAS whilst the PS5 should fit well for gaming.
 
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Base Mini M2 256GB
Base Mini M2 Pro 512GB
Base MBP M2 Pro 512GB

All suffer from reduced SSD performance due to NAND chip reduction. I suspected as much for the 256GB models (with the previous Air history).. but the Pro models?!

This is a **** show. At best it's extremely dishonest not including any of this on their product pages. I hope Apple are ready for the bad press and number of incoming returns.

www.macrumors.com

New 256GB Mac Mini and 512GB MacBook Pro Have Slower SSD Speeds Than Previous Models

While the new Mac mini with the M2 chip has a lower $599 starting price, the base model with 256GB of storage has slower SSD read and write...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com

9to5mac.com

2023 MacBook Pro has slower 512GB SSD than the M1

A quick look inside the base-level M2 Pro MacBook Pro revealed something I hadn’t expected to see – or, rather,...
9to5mac.com 9to5mac.com
 
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I cancelled the order for now as things may be changing for me work wise where I won't have much flexibility in terms of BYOD. I can't justify spending a ton of a mac setup that I cannot use for my day job.
 
Feek said:
You’re too late. I’ve called shotgun already :cry:
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Doh! :D

Serious question: Am I right in thinking that the Mini can only support two external monitors?

I'm using a hacky solution to run three screens with my M1 iMac but an M2 Pro mini with three displays would be plenty for my needs without upgrading to a Studio.

Edit: Just been watching MKBHD's review and yes, the Mini M2 Pro can handle three external displays. That's very tempting…
 
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2StepSteve said:
This is a **** show.
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If it were only pauper spec models then i doubt anyone would notice, it would be fringe cases, but the 512GB models suffering the same fate does change that slightly as some of those do end up in the hands of "power" (devs, editors etc) users. Apple should post performance specs alongside their models/options but plenty of other vendors have pulled similar stuff so Apple aren't alone in this.

Although the stat that a five year old Mini offers better SSD performance, over a new base spec, doesn't look too good :eek:
 
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LiE said:
Is just the 512 on the Pro? I think the 512 on the regular M2 is fine?
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Seems Apple is using (minimum) 256GB NAND, so you would assume both vanilla and Pro 512GB models to use the same config, ie - two 256GB NAND.
There's also talk the vanilla 1TB mini uses (two) 512GB NAND whereas the Pro models are using four 256GB.

Hopefully someone cobbles together data of the different configurations and sticks it all in a pretty table for us.


Edit - Just spotted this in a MacRumors thread (large pinch of salt etc) -

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