I bought the base model. Then I moved the Home-folder to an external USB4 SSD with 2TB of storage. Whoopee... now you have a workhorse machine and have cheated Apple on their Apple-tax for storage. I get along fine with 16gb of ram. Important not to use the external harddrive as main startup as you will loose some functions doing that... just move the home folder. It's a bit tricky to do (but not difficult at all), but once it's done you have a crazy fast Mac mini with a huge storage hard drive and you don't have to think about ever moving things around. The main harddrive will only be used for the Mac OS. I use Hypers SSD USB4 enclosure which is crazy a fast 40gb/s external drive. This is by far the best solution if you want to keep costs down. My total cost for this setup landed on 920 dollars including tax. Buying this setup from Apple would've been 1969 dollars incl tax. I also sold my old Mac mini for 500 dollars, so what I payed in cash was 420. Pretty sweet! (Side note... I always shop from their education store since they never ever check if your're eligible ;) That also keeps the cost down.)
@@MrHtech I'm backed up in case of emergency. This is just a tip for people like me who wants to keep costs down and keep their Mac mini in one place. I understand if it's inconvenient for people who move their Mini around or use it as a pro in their business. I'm just a guy with a home computer... I would never pay 1000 dollars for 2TB of memory. Buying high quality drives should minimize the risk.
I think a better comparison would have been the specced up M4 Pro Mac mini against the M1 Max. It was to be expected that the M1 Max would obliterate the base M4.
Well surprisingly the M1 Max only did better in graphics due to having over double the gpu cores and exporting due to max models having dual video encoders , when it comes down to cpu related tasks the base m4 was much better
Thanks for the information. Please can you review the maths on the first few comparisons where you say x% faster. If I’m not mistaken, I think you are doing the ratios rather the difference i.e. X/Y where X is the M1 and Y the M4, when it should be (Y-X)/Y as the relative time saving. This will give you far lower figures than you state. Worth a check as the difference as a % is less this way.
Which model would you recommend for music production? The M1 Max had me hooked because of the extra 8GB of RAM but everything else the M4 Pro seems to destroy the m1
@@MrHtech I'm considering a iMac with the Apple M4 chip, the most RAM it can have is 32G, the biggest drive is only 2TB. But it seems like that may be slower than my MBP. Thoughts?
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Cant believe the performance of that Mini Machine
Yeh the M1 Max costs a nice amount of money 😂 it was surprising
Helpful work and go on dont stop
You can right now get a brand new in box Mac Studio M1 Max for around $1,500 USD; that’s about 50% off original MSRP from some resellers in U.S. now.
That’s a pretty good offer tbh
I bought the base model. Then I moved the Home-folder to an external USB4 SSD with 2TB of storage. Whoopee... now you have a workhorse machine and have cheated Apple on their Apple-tax for storage. I get along fine with 16gb of ram. Important not to use the external harddrive as main startup as you will loose some functions doing that... just move the home folder. It's a bit tricky to do (but not difficult at all), but once it's done you have a crazy fast Mac mini with a huge storage hard drive and you don't have to think about ever moving things around. The main harddrive will only be used for the Mac OS.
I use Hypers SSD USB4 enclosure which is crazy a fast 40gb/s external drive.
This is by far the best solution if you want to keep costs down.
My total cost for this setup landed on 920 dollars including tax. Buying this setup from Apple would've been 1969 dollars incl tax. I also sold my old Mac mini for 500 dollars, so what I payed in cash was 420. Pretty sweet!
(Side note... I always shop from their education store since they never ever check if your're eligible ;) That also keeps the cost down.)
I was smarter, i installed the compete OS on an external NVME drive :)
Good to know 👌🏼 quite the workaround
Id be worried of something going wrong, external drives have a higher chance to accidentally disconnect or have some random connection issue.
@@arnonabuurs7297 Well... you loose some functions doing it that way. But if you don't need those functions it's also a great way of doing it.
@@MrHtech I'm backed up in case of emergency. This is just a tip for people like me who wants to keep costs down and keep their Mac mini in one place. I understand if it's inconvenient for people who move their Mini around or use it as a pro in their business. I'm just a guy with a home computer... I would never pay 1000 dollars for 2TB of memory. Buying high quality drives should minimize the risk.
I think a better comparison would have been the specced up M4 Pro Mac mini against the M1 Max. It was to be expected that the M1 Max would obliterate the base M4.
Well surprisingly the M1 Max only did better in graphics due to having over double the gpu cores and exporting due to max models having dual video encoders , when it comes down to cpu related tasks the base m4 was much better
The encoder you select will make a huge difference. Were you CPU encoding the videos or using a hardware encoder?
I use FinalCut and both videos are set to the same export settings H.264 Multi-Pass codec , I’m not sure if it’s cpu encoding or gpu.
Thanks for the information. Please can you review the maths on the first few comparisons where you say x% faster.
If I’m not mistaken, I think you are doing the ratios rather the difference i.e. X/Y where X is the M1 and Y the M4, when it should be (Y-X)/Y as the relative time saving. This will give you far lower figures than you state. Worth a check as the difference as a % is less this way.
I’ll have to double check, thanks for letting me know
Cinebench scores were wrong, the 800-900 one should be multi core scores, 100ish is the single
Yeah you’re probably right, my mistake 👌🏼
Which model would you recommend for music production? The M1 Max had me hooked because of the extra 8GB of RAM but everything else the M4 Pro seems to destroy the m1
If you don’t need it to be super portable with its own screen, then I’d say the m4 pro would be better choice 👌🏼
@ Thanks!
So you're telling me that my M1 Max Pro laptop with 64 gig of RAM is faster than the latest M4 chip machines?
The Max chips seem to be very good at video editing and encoding because they have dual encoders and much more gpu cores
@@MrHtech I'm considering a iMac with the Apple M4 chip, the most RAM it can have is 32G, the biggest drive is only 2TB. But it seems like that may be slower than my MBP. Thoughts?
@ what MBP do you have now?
@@MrHtech M1 Max Pro, 64g, 4tb.
@MikeOrazzi do you mean MacBook Pro M1 Max? I’m getting confused with the Max Pro wording 😂
You can right now get a brand new in box Mac Studio M1 Max for around $1,500 USD; that’s about 50% off original MSRP from some resellers in U.S. now.