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

Raymond Lin said:
Yes, I mean upgrade to 24G ram, it is still £200 upgrade, no discount. But to 32G of Ram it is another £180 on top.

I just think £200, which is 40% the cost of the machine to get 8G of ram is not worth it.
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I've always been fairly pragmatic when it comes to technology, but especially when it comes to apple. In terms of apple i've accepted that there are parts of the walled garden that I cannot change, and so I have two choices - go back to PC (probably not going to happen while windows recall in particular is a thing), or swallow the bitter pill and simply pay what apple are asking for in order to get something specced to fit my needs. I bought the M2 with 16gb memory, and it's fantastic! I lament that I didn't look around for a better price for more storage as while 256gb is adequate, 512gb would I have concluded been preferred with an additional 4tb connected via thunderbolt so that I can offload things like civ.

I don't know what my point is. Just musing at the moment over what I'd need to effectively go on this video production course I'm looking at for a christmas gift to myself and contemplating picking up the mini pro model with a little extra storage. Morning all.
 
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eldergeek said:
I've always been fairly pragmatic when it comes to technology, but especially when it comes to apple. In terms of apple i've accepted that there are parts of the walled garden that I cannot change, and so I have two choices - go back to PC (probably not going to happen while windows recall in particular is a thing), or swallow the bitter pill and simply pay what apple are asking for in order to get something specced to fit my needs. I bought the M2 with 16gb memory, and it's fantastic! I lament that I didn't look around for a better price for more storage as while 256gb is adequate, 512gb would I have concluded been preferred with an additional 4tb connected via thunderbolt so that I can offload things like civ.

I don't know what my point is. Just musing at the moment over what I'd need to effectively go on this video production course I'm looking at for a christmas gift to myself and contemplating picking up the mini pro model with a little extra storage. Morning all.
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I too have 4TB nvme external ready. 16G RAM will be more than fine. My work M1 Mac Mini has 16G ram and it's been fine so with the M4 it will be even better.

Save the £200 towards the next update is the wiser move.
 
I’ve had my Mac mini, 2TB M.2 SSD.waiting for 3 days for a OWC Thunderbolt enclosure to be delivered. Its supposed to be here by Thursday.

Still, more time to get myself clued up on YouTube.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I too have 4TB nvme external ready. 16G RAM will be more than fine. My work M1 Mac Mini has 16G ram and it's been fine so with the M4 it will be even better.

Save the £200 towards the next update is the wiser move.
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The only question is around Apple Intelligence, and how much RAM that takes and what can be disabled etc, that seems to be the primary reason Apple have upgraded the base models.
 
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