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

Raymond Lin said:
It's such a good design, you can press it down and it clicks without ANY balance or leverage issues. The fit is absolutely perfect, there is no horizontal movements in its seated position inside the base at all, none. Before it arrived I was preparing what to do if it moves around or if the rear end pops up when i press it down. None of those issues are present or even close to present.
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Exactly. They must have the most dialled in 3D printers going. For the £19 it cost me it is good value. Also, ordered last Wednesday evening and arrived this morning. A week from China, very impressed. We ordered a new Dell Laptop for someone at work that was ordered last Thursday, it came from the Netherlands, and that arrived today as well. Half way across the world in a week and from the Netherlands in 6 days.
 
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dannyjo22 said:
Now the M4/M4 pro is on the refurb store I'm having to sit on my hands to avoid upgrading for the sake of it. How painless is it to transfer m complete M1 installation over to a new Mac. This being my first Mac I've never done it before.
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You terrible man....I've just ended up getting one of the m4Pro minis on there. It was my only way to get the 24GB option so I applied mam maths. Can't wait for it to come, I just fancied something that should hopefully run civ 7 and my m1 macbook pro with 16GB struggles a bit with civ 5
 
Everything JUST fit under the monitor! The Duck is now on a nest. :D

I am now good for storage now for the life of the machine (probably).

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Is it just the 40g enclosure with 2X USB A and an audio out? Tempted, but not by dealing with Raycue.

Need to work up a couple of non damaging black decals to put eyebrows above the front USB ports on Quack mini now… machine arrived yesterday, suits great on the base and I’ve ran everything out through a single connection to the Caldigit TS4. Purchase justification reflex means it’s faster and fresher than the M3 Pro MBP, obviously… but with arched eyebrows once I sort that.
 
whiskycycle said:
Is it just the 40g enclosure with 2X USB A and an audio out? Tempted, but not by dealing with Raycue.

Need to work up a couple of non damaging black decals to put eyebrows above the front USB ports on Quack mini now… machine arrived yesterday, suits great on the base and I’ve ran everything out through a single connection to the Caldigit TS4. Purchase justification reflex means it’s faster and fresher than the M3 Pro MBP, obviously… but with arched eyebrows once I sort that.
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It's that one yes. Does not require external power source. I won't use the Headphone jack but someone tested it on Reddit to say that it is a full spec one with 32k hz or whatever that is. I want to point out that the CS from Raycue is non-existent...I ordered this by accident/on impulse, and tried to contact them to cancel but was unable to get in touch with anyone at all.

Speed is decent, comparable to the OWC, whilst costing £20 less than the OWC.

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Think I’ll stick with the Orico TB3 enclosure and whack one of those WD drives in… no point (hah) in spending more when I’ve got something that’ll do fine already!
 
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So buy a mini computer and make it a big ugly mess with a ton of add on's. I don't get it :p It would look better just buying a bigger footprint single unit.
 
dannyjo22 said:
That is very true!
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whiskycycle said:
True. Exchange rate for an extra Some kidney is a bit much!
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I actually never checked how much it is until now...£1200 upgrade on the Studio to get 4TB of storage, only 2TB max on the Mini.

£1200... That entire Mac + Raycue and 4TB combo above cost me about £800.
 
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Did anyone get Apple care with their Mac Mini?

I have like 2 days left before I can take it up on it, it's about £80 for 3 years.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Did anyone get Apple care with their Mac Mini?

I have like 2 days left before I can take it up on it, it's about £80 for 3 years.
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Yep. I always do with my Macs, given their reparability. Not often something goes wrong, but in the case of my MBP, had I not bought it, the cost of replacing the trackpad when it broke was almost the same cost as having it. Upside is it makes it easier to sell if you're so inclined, and you can also choose to carry the support on for a monthly charge after the 3 years if you so wish.

I believe after the initial 60 days, if you want to add Applecare, you can do it, but you need to take the device into the store to have it checked before they'll apply it. Just to make sure you haven't bought a broken one to immediately claim on it I assume.
 
dav3evans said:
Yep. I always do with my Macs, given their reparability. Not often something goes wrong, but in the case of my MBP, had I not bought it, the cost of replacing the trackpad when it broke was almost the same cost as having it. Upside is it makes it easier to sell if you're so inclined, and you can also choose to carry the support on for a monthly charge after the 3 years if you so wish.

I believe after the initial 60 days, if you want to add Applecare, you can do it, but you need to take the device into the store to have it checked before they'll apply it. Just to make sure you haven't bought a broken one to immediately claim on it I assume.
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I’ve always had it before, it was free with educational discount, but not now.
 
I've always bought it, and factored it into the price at the time. Although the additional cost is a higher percentage of the unit cost than Applecare vs MBP, I figured it's one of those "better to have it and not need it" situations. Would you feel worse spending £80 for cover you don't end up needing, or getting sucker punched for a logic board replacement after 18 months. It's not likely, but the percentage is never 0.
 
dav3evans said:
I've always bought it, and factored it into the price at the time. Although the additional cost is a higher percentage of the unit cost than Applecare vs MBP, I figured it's one of those "better to have it and not need it" situations. Would you feel worse spending £80 for cover you don't end up needing, or getting sucker punched for a logic board replacement after 18 months. It's not likely, but the percentage is never 0.
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£80 for 3 years isn’t that bad. I’ll probably get it and upgrade it in about 4-5 years anyway. I bought the base model knowing it’s a medium term product rather than the pro version to keep for like 8 years.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Did anyone get Apple care with their Mac Mini?

I have like 2 days left before I can take it up on it, it's about £80 for 3 years.
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Paid for it when I bought the base M4, cost £89 after discount (£500 for the mini itself via Totum). Had to use AC+ previously on MacBook Air 11 (power board) and projected repair cost was about 400ish for some insane parts-related reason.
 
Instead of letting the Hagibis just sit there unused, picked up a cheap 1TB Kingston nvme to make some use of it. If anything, just a drive for my download folder.

Speed is good. TB4 still the bottleneck anyway but the temperature is at 33c even after heavy load, had i found this sooner I would have probably bought this instead of OWC. But I will HAVE to replace the cable beacuse it's too thick to use in the Mac Mini 4.

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