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

Well I've discovered something, started testing the monitor into standby settings and at 240 Hz it has issues coming out of standby, if I set the refresh rate to 120 Hz it has no problem coming out of standby.

Also when its in standby after several minutes or so the monitor wakes up and goes back to sleep again, just like when the Mac Mini is in sleep mode. I guess all of this probably because the monitor doesn't officially support Mac OS only Windows.

A 120 Hz refresh rate is good enough anyway as I don't play games on the Mac and it's not often that I leave the machine long enough for it to go into standby.
 
nlel1975 said:
Well I've discovered something, started testing the monitor into standby settings and at 240 Hz it has issues coming out of standby, if I set the refresh rate to 120 Hz it has no problem coming out of standby.

Also when its in standby after several minutes or so the monitor wakes up and goes back to sleep again, just like when the Mac Mini is in sleep mode. I guess all of this probably because the monitor doesn't officially support Mac OS only Windows.

A 120 Hz refresh rate is good enough anyway as I don't play games on the Mac and it's not often that I leave the machine long enough for it to go into standby.
Click to expand...
remind me again, which monitor do you have?
 
Well the problem seems to have been resolved. Just let the monitor go into standby and it didn't wake at all for a whole hour until I got bored and woke it up. Whereas before it would wake up multiple times every 10 to 15 minutes or so.

I think the key was setting the refresh rate to 120 Hz from 240 Hz. Then after I'd rebooted the machine it doesn't do it anymore. Of course I will monitor it and if it happens again I will report back but it looks like it's solved.
 
I've tested it in sleep mode again and every once in a while the lights on the keyboard come on and the monitors power light turns blue, nothing appears on the monitors screen and after 30 to 60 seconds the monitors power light turns white again and the keyboard lights go off.

I retested it in monitor standby mode, with the machine on and the monitor simply going into standby and it no longer wakes up until I want it to, so an improvement there. I think the sleep behaviour is more by design than fault.

The monitor doesn't really come on nothing is displayed on the screen its just the power light turns blue and the keyboard lights come on, it's a gaming keyboard and the monitor has a light on the back for gaming effect and that comes on with the power light which makes it more noticeable.
 
Only issue I seem to have that I didn't get on the MBP is that my usbc->optical adaptor doesn't seem to work after the mac has been sleeping a long time unless I unplug the usb end of it. Bit annoying.
 
Is buying the 14 core / 64gb ram variant a daft idea? A friend needs one of these for work and they're not sure they can wait 6 months or however long it will be for the M4 studio. Almost certainly need the Pro chip at the very least, and 24gb ram wouldn't really be enough, so it's between the 12 core/48gb ram/1tb and 14 core/64gb/1tb. Difference of £400. Feels a bit strange buying a Mini for this price but performance is performance I guess? I've not been clued into the M chips at all so I'm not doing the best job advising. Better that than a second hand M2 Studio or similar to tide them over? There's no guarantee they would get or need the studio, so it's not a given they'll jump to that when it's out, if that makes a difference.
 
Last edited:
Adrianr said:
Is buying the 14 core / 64gb ram variant a daft idea? A friend needs one of these for work and they're not sure they can wait 6 months or however long it will be for the M4 studio. Almost certainly need the Pro chip at the very least, and 24gb ram wouldn't really be enough, so it's between the 12 core/48gb ram/1tb and 14 core/64gb/1tb. Difference of £400. Feels a bit strange buying a Mini for this price but performance is performance I guess? I've not been clued into the M chips at all so I'm not doing the best job advising. Better that than a second hand M2 Studio or similar to tide them over? There's no guarantee they would get or need the studio, so it's not a given they'll jump to that when it's out, if that makes a difference.
Click to expand...

Will it be fast? Yes.
Is it value for money? No.
Can he afford it?
Can he justify it for work?

I would go for 512G, with all the ram you want and 14core.

Save the money on the internal SSD to get an external one with 2TB with a OWC enclosure.
 
Last edited:
Does anyone know where I can pick up an OWC enclosure that isn't amazon? I bought a mini for my nephew, and figured I could put my spare 980 pro into one for him.
 
Raymond Lin said:
My recommendation is still the OWC enclosure, you just have to get it from retailers outside the UK that's all. I know some people got it from the US.
Click to expand...
You know I might just suck it up and get the hybrid NVME/Mechnical DAS they have there as it would actually let me tidy up my desk a bit more.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom