What're your thoughts on the M4 Mac Mini's this year? Is the power button in a stupid place? Is it forgivable? And are people actually buying the Apple SSD upgrades?!
The power button is there just so that there will be so many videos about it. The other obvious point is that they don’t want you to shut it down. Either for patching, some will say for some authorities to listen if required.😊
Still keeping my two M1 Mac Minis (8GB/256GB) out of the landfill. Both are delightful. I've been experimenting with the ongoing trend of booting externally, running a user with its home folder, apps and data on an external SSD and all that jazz. It works (and no, I don't give a flying fig about not being able to run Apple Intelligence in this configuration). The Thunderbolt 3 enclosure seems fast enough for my needs. I find the whole idea of running a user, apps and data external very liberating, storage-wise. Will replace the chintzy 512GB NVME drive I found in my parts bin to a decent 4TB model soon. Both my M1 machines also run Asahi Linux (my main OS)...which runs quite a bit more warmly than the stock macOS. Having tried the external drive thing, I've been intrigued with the idea of upgrading to the base M4 Pro Mini JUST for its Thunderbolt 5 ports. I'm interested in what professional folks like you may have to say about those ports. Do you actually notice the difference in the smoothness and efficacy of your work flows as a result of using Thunderbolt 5 drives with your M4 Pros as opposed to using your Thunderbolt 4 drives with your M4? Looking forward to hearing what you have to say about that experience!
I am the epitome of the base M4 Mac Mini buyer: Long-time non-pro Mac OS user. Until the appearance of Apple Silicon, my budget required that I buy 1 or 2 generation old Macs. Not anymore.
@@Lareo1964 Right? But I'm surprised the mini is working so well with my LG C1, turns it on and sleeps it like a monitor, so the power button brouhaha seems so ridiculous - Especially in light of @overstim's explanation!
not had one single issue with the power button placement, just slightly lift it up and press it. That said mine is on top of my desk so it’s not covered up
There's always something they reviewers have to moan about in a largely positive review item. And now we have the several week later regret videos elsewhere on UA-cam. Always the same cycle until the next product releases.
New subscriber here. I've had the base M4 Mac mini for four weeks and am very happy with it. I already had all the necessary peripherals from another setup, including a 2TB NVME external drive for storage and a modestly priced 4K monitor, so there were no additional expenses. The mini is taking the place of my M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14, and like you I'm considering trading that in for an M4 MacBook Air when they're released. I'm in no hurry with that though, my MBP is still an excellent travel device.
I think the real value of the M4 Mini's is the new base spec in either chip and falls away once you start customising. Either 16GB/M4 or 24GB/M4 Pro are great machines and will serve a lot of people. If you're needing to spec up, I suspect the M4 Max Studio will hit that sweet spot perfectly and be a much smarter buy than speccing up the M4 Pro. Likely 36GB base spec, much better GPU, the decoders/encoders etc etc for a little bit more. Very tempted to upgrade my M1 Pro but I think the M4 Studio will be worth waiting for.
Absolutely amazing video!! Out of every single Mac Mini review I have seen, this is by FAR the most condidered for everyone. I am a professional 360 Virtual Tour photographer dealing with large 18x9k 16bit TIFF files, so I have recently purchased the more powerful M4 Pro chip with 64GB RAM and 512GB SSD (as I have external Thunderbolt 4 Nvme and Synology). I currently have a very powerful PC, so will be keen to see if it can keep up as I am very keen to switch to Mac 💪
Thank you so much! Great move with the external NVME + Synology. I might play around a little more with the Synology caching to see if I can improve editing directly from the NAS over 10Gb... I think the M4 Pro chip is pretty damn powerful - very close to the Mac Studio!
I bought a base model M4 Mac Mini and added two external 1 TB USB4 SSDs I had lying around, as I was fed paying Apple's extortionate upgrade option prices. The Black Magic read / write speed tests for both these USB4 drives were faster than the internal SSD. I configured my user account to have its home folder on one of the external drives, so the Mac Mini still boots from the internal drive, but large apps and files are stored on the external drives. The performance of this set-up was excellent, once I installed some third-party apps, MonitorControl and SoundSource, to manage the external display's settings and audio volume, including using the brightness and volume keys on my keyboard. I will use the money saved to buy a Windows 11 arm 64 tablet PC with user upgradeable internal storage.
What’s the big deal with the power button? Couldn’t I just flip the unit with the Apple Logo facing downwards, some rubbery feet, boom! Or would this cause thermal issues?
Perhaps the top spec model is throttling due to the extra cores? It only allows the base spec reach full potential? A heat sink trade-off in the new, smaller case?
I guess you have to consider that in order for Apple to do it's research and development and bring you things like the M4 & M4 Pro Mac Minis, the Apple Tax is what funds all this.
I am upgrading my home studio, and my main concern about the Mac Mini is the fan noise. I saw a review showing that the M4 Pro is noisier than the M4 base model. Did you notice that?
I look forward to your buyers guide. I appreciate your work. As for the top spec model being slower - Perhaps the top spec model is throttling due to the extra cores? The Pro heatsink may only allow the base spec reach full potential? A heat sink trade-off in the new, smaller case?
the screens need to have a stream compression support, cant remember what its called, but if you have screens with the right support you can connect more screens aswell
Ok which model do you recommend M4 mac mini with 32 GB RAM or m4 pro mac mini with 24 GB RAM For editing 4K footage and after effects or fusion on davinci)
Have you had any flakiness with external devices with the Mini? I have the M1 Max Studio and it randomly disengages with some external devices (NVMe; monitor). Great vid!
I run mine on a 43” monitor connected with the HDMI port, it defaults to 60 Hz, if I reboot it, I can select 144Hz. Sometimes I reboot it or leave it at 60Hz.
Great vids! You mentioned the Dell U4025QW Thunderbolt hub monitor and that you had issues achieving full resolution and refresh rates when trying multiple monitors with the Dell. But were you able to achieve full 5K at 120 Hz on the Dell alone? I’d like to know more about the compatibility and which connections (and settings if any) will optimize display quality with the mini M4 Pro.
Bought the Mac mini base model and tested some large CAD assemblies with fusion 360 and was very surprised how well it could manage that. Bottom line the value for that base model is amazing, but don't buy the upgrades.
I have the base model on a Samsung 49” 5k and a portable 1080p monitor I’ll try hooking up a 3rd. My main issue is it can end up looking like a cable monster without a hub.
I did buy the same spec’d out M4 Pro that you had but it’s going to be my MacBook M1 Max replacement since that machine just sits on my desk and doesn’t get moved. I have an M2 MacBook Pro 14 inch for that. My M1 will find other uses though. Am I mad that Apple is selling storage for a stupid upgrade, yes, I think they need to lower the price and bring it inline with what they did with the 16GB base memory. It’s atrocious they’re selling Macs with 256GB still and charge $200 to go to $512 or $400 for 1TB. At least someone has an option potentially to fix this.
Yes, we need more "why I bought/ sold product XYZ" videos - what would I do if I didn't know what computer Pete (or any other influencer) bought yesterday? Ehhhhmmm - dunno..
I have the M4 mini Pro and tried Cyberpunk 77 on Crossover and it ran at 25 FPS or 45 FPS with tweaking. It ran much faster on my Windows machine with the RTX3080. I think Crossover places too much overhead on the game. Apparently there will be a native Mac version of Cyberpunk 77 in 2025. To be fair, the game seemed playable if you ignore the FPS display.
I don’t get it what is this video about? Since it was released every UA-camr has repeated phrases about the best-valued basic model. You could just wright it in twitter
Yeah, this is kinda why I moved away from Macintosh. Although the OS and the experience in general is great, the fact that the upgrades are unreasonably priced AND that there are no user replacable components is not very responsible. I guess Apple just meant money by wanting to appear as a "green" company xD
I had to do a few shutdown/restart cycles when my Caldigit and Qnap were having some issues on the first few days. Having to lift the back corner for restarts wasn’t an issue but it kinda felt like “this isn’t a Mac”. It’s a straight out bad design!
I've used the power button on my 2015 27" iMac probably ten times since I got it... about once per year. And who cares where the power button is on a mouse? Or even the charge port? Who wants to use a mouse plugged in?!! The magic mouse needs to be charged about 4x a YEAR with heavy use.
Since the NAS has spinning hard drives….do you even get 1gb/s from it ?….seems like a huge bottleneck no ?..wouldn’t you need NVME drives to even come close to saturating 10gb Ethernet ?
A 6-bay NAS with modern HDDs in RAID-5 can get close to 1GB/s transfer speeds, so getting close to the 10Gbps network bandwidth which will always be lower than the theoretical maximum. Plus, as @PeteMatheson said, SSD caching can use the full network bandwidth.
Yes but seeing support for 8k displays doesn’t necessarily apply when trying to connect to 57” 240hz displays and I get a lot of questions on all my monitor videos with unusual resolutions :)
Wrong. It's vague and applies only to Apple's own displays. How do you translate 8K support to 8Kx2K or 5Kx2K, both of which can have severe scaling issues on the base Mac Mini and even the Pro and Max models.
POWER BUTTON issued Solved I placed my M4 Mac Mini Basic up side down Bake side facing right because all the major cabling comes from the right side, But then I/m trying to run a Windows Laptop & the Mac Mini on the same Monitor using the samewireless Key Board & Mouse thru a switcher for both computers.
i'm leaving the mac world for WINDOWS, yes get that. I have a massive apple eco system but for my main computer i'm going PC. It's not the hardware, its the limitations of software for my use cases now.
Apples base price have always been nonsense and anti consumer.. the base model now has a decent amount of ram but the HD? You always have to upgrade to make it useful either paying the apple tax or buying a third party HD. Apple makes ewaste at this point. They aren’t environmentally friendly. I’ve been an apple advocate since 1992 and having non upgradable machines from them is infuriating..
My predictions: 1. There will only be an M4 Max Mac Studio... the Ultra will only be in the Pro tower. 2. There will also be an M4 Quad or some non-SOC standard for those who REALLY want a fast computer.
Nah the Studio will get the Max and the Ultra and the Pro will get the Ultra and the “Extreme” (2 Ultras). That way they have a desktop Mac for every chip
no joke if this thing ran my fps games like valorant, the finals, csgo etc. I would sell my pc and just get this and be happy. But thats still some years away sadly
Complaining about upgrade prices is like telling the Porsche dealer you don’t want factory upgrade options. Macs are expensive, they have been since the VERY first mac that Jobs for sold $666.66
This is precisely what happens when ppl who don't know much about computers review them.... Just because you have a platform doesn't mean you're qualified to talk about these things... The benchmarks you're bringing up on this video are GPU-bound... You will not see any major differences in these units. Even an M1 Max from years ago will yield better results for these benchmarks than the M4 Pro chip.
@@mario_luis_dev Someone on another UA-cam review pointed out that exporting to 4:2:2 prores is like zero effort you need to export it to an h.265 to give it some encoding and compression work to do?
That's what we're working on still. I've heard of other channels doing it successfully. The only issue we're working on now is the input lag - early days though! Currently he just sync's everything locally via Google drive.
What're your thoughts on the M4 Mac Mini's this year? Is the power button in a stupid place? Is it forgivable? And are people actually buying the Apple SSD upgrades?!
Overhyped. Yes the base model is an amazing value, but the second you tick an upgrade box the value proposition is killed.
@@PeteMatheson Demanding game is Rust…
The power button is there just so that there will be so many videos about it. The other obvious point is that they don’t want you to shut it down. Either for patching, some will say for some authorities to listen if required.😊
just wish we had an SD card slot - then it would be the perfect ingesting machine!
Still keeping my two M1 Mac Minis (8GB/256GB) out of the landfill. Both are delightful.
I've been experimenting with the ongoing trend of booting externally, running a user with its home folder, apps and data on an external SSD and all that jazz.
It works (and no, I don't give a flying fig about not being able to run Apple Intelligence in this configuration). The Thunderbolt 3 enclosure seems fast enough for my needs.
I find the whole idea of running a user, apps and data external very liberating, storage-wise. Will replace the chintzy 512GB NVME drive I found in my parts bin to a decent 4TB model soon.
Both my M1 machines also run Asahi Linux (my main OS)...which runs quite a bit more warmly than the stock macOS.
Having tried the external drive thing, I've been intrigued with the idea of upgrading to the base M4 Pro Mini JUST for its Thunderbolt 5 ports.
I'm interested in what professional folks like you may have to say about those ports. Do you actually notice the difference in the smoothness and efficacy of your work flows as a result of using Thunderbolt 5 drives with your M4 Pros as opposed to using your Thunderbolt 4 drives with your M4?
Looking forward to hearing what you have to say about that experience!
I am the epitome of the base M4 Mac Mini buyer: Long-time non-pro Mac OS user. Until the appearance of Apple Silicon, my budget required that I buy 1 or 2 generation old Macs. Not anymore.
M series chips are all incredible!
They put the power button there so no one would be dumb and mount it somewhere that would block ventilation.
That... actually makes sense, nice
I dont switsch it off becaue of low power consumption. For me as PC user its a weird habit 😅
@@Lareo1964 Right? But I'm surprised the mini is working so well with my LG C1, turns it on and sleeps it like a monitor, so the power button brouhaha seems so ridiculous - Especially in light of @overstim's explanation!
Mine sits under the monitor, it is so snug I have to pull it out to turn it on. But I’m not complaining.
not had one single issue with the power button placement, just slightly lift it up and press it. That said mine is on top of my desk so it’s not covered up
There's always something they reviewers have to moan about in a largely positive review item. And now we have the several week later regret videos elsewhere on UA-cam. Always the same cycle until the next product releases.
Just got my Mac Mini M4 base model couple days ago with EDU discount. I have to say, I just love it.
I think absolutely everyone would gladly bite the bullet on the RAM if the ssd prices would reflect reality a bit more
New subscriber here. I've had the base M4 Mac mini for four weeks and am very happy with it. I already had all the necessary peripherals from another setup, including a 2TB NVME external drive for storage and a modestly priced 4K monitor, so there were no additional expenses. The mini is taking the place of my M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14, and like you I'm considering trading that in for an M4 MacBook Air when they're released. I'm in no hurry with that though, my MBP is still an excellent travel device.
I got the M4 Mini base model and it works perfectly without any issue. Now my Windows PC with 3080 graphics card is collecting dust.
Nice! Assume you're not using it for gaming much at all?
So you were a gamer? You know that the mac mini m4 is not a gaming machine and the m4 cant beat 3080?
The button isn’t upside down, the logo is. You have to turn it over.
I think the real value of the M4 Mini's is the new base spec in either chip and falls away once you start customising. Either 16GB/M4 or 24GB/M4 Pro are great machines and will serve a lot of people.
If you're needing to spec up, I suspect the M4 Max Studio will hit that sweet spot perfectly and be a much smarter buy than speccing up the M4 Pro. Likely 36GB base spec, much better GPU, the decoders/encoders etc etc for a little bit more. Very tempted to upgrade my M1 Pro but I think the M4 Studio will be worth waiting for.
Tempted but I can't really justify it as my M2 Mac Mini is still trucking along nicely and meets all of my everyday needs.
This intro looked GREAT at 144p!
😅haha thanks !
Remember to install Adobe Flash Player
Muse intro was 🔥🔥
🤘🏼
Enjoying your video format 🎉
Thank you! Still plenty of work to be done still! 😁
Absolutely amazing video!! Out of every single Mac Mini review I have seen, this is by FAR the most condidered for everyone. I am a professional 360 Virtual Tour photographer dealing with large 18x9k 16bit TIFF files, so I have recently purchased the more powerful M4 Pro chip with 64GB RAM and 512GB SSD (as I have external Thunderbolt 4 Nvme and Synology).
I currently have a very powerful PC, so will be keen to see if it can keep up as I am very keen to switch to Mac 💪
Thank you so much!
Great move with the external NVME + Synology. I might play around a little more with the Synology caching to see if I can improve editing directly from the NAS over 10Gb...
I think the M4 Pro chip is pretty damn powerful - very close to the Mac Studio!
@ I only have the DS423+, so no 10Gb unfortunately. Time for more money to be spent I think. 😬😂
Great intro, subscribed! ❤
Thank you! Welcome :)
great video mate! subbed! keep it up
Thank you! 🙌🏼
I bought a base model M4 Mac Mini and added two external 1 TB USB4 SSDs I had lying around, as I was fed paying Apple's extortionate upgrade option prices. The Black Magic read / write speed tests for both these USB4 drives were faster than the internal SSD. I configured my user account to have its home folder on one of the external drives, so the Mac Mini still boots from the internal drive, but large apps and files are stored on the external drives. The performance of this set-up was excellent, once I installed some third-party apps, MonitorControl and SoundSource, to manage the external display's settings and audio volume, including using the brightness and volume keys on my keyboard. I will use the money saved to buy a Windows 11 arm 64 tablet PC with user upgradeable internal storage.
Great video again!
What’s the big deal with the power button? Couldn’t I just flip the unit with the Apple Logo facing downwards, some rubbery feet, boom! Or would this cause thermal issues?
Apple should make their logo to act like turn on button... :)
the power button should be positioned on the front and it should include the fingerprint reader...
8:33 makes no sense you show the specced out M4 Pro being slower than the base M4 model but say that it is a little bit faster. I'm so confused.
Perhaps the top spec model is throttling due to the extra cores? It only allows the base spec reach full potential? A heat sink trade-off in the new, smaller case?
I guess you have to consider that in order for Apple to do it's research and development and bring you things like the M4 & M4 Pro Mac Minis, the Apple Tax is what funds all this.
Invert it. Then the power button is on the top.
🙃 Good point!
If you turn the machine over, it works like an air purifier which collects dust
I am upgrading my home studio, and my main concern about the Mac Mini is the fan noise. I saw a review showing that the M4 Pro is noisier than the M4 base model. Did you notice that?
I look forward to your buyers guide. I appreciate your work. As for the top spec model being slower - Perhaps the top spec model is throttling due to the extra cores? The Pro heatsink may only allow the base spec reach full potential? A heat sink trade-off in the new, smaller case?
fire video
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Try lowering refresh rate to say 120hz and try 3 monitors again.
hi Pete, you said you access the mini remote? How do you do this? Screenshare? Or do you use any tool?
the screens need to have a stream compression support, cant remember what its called, but if you have screens with the right support you can connect more screens aswell
Ok which model do you recommend
M4 mac mini with 32 GB RAM or m4 pro mac mini with
24 GB RAM
For editing 4K footage and after effects or fusion on davinci)
What brand stand are your monitors on with the lights on it?
Nice video. A base model 16/512 configuration for $599 would convince me to buy.
Have you had any flakiness with external devices with the Mini? I have the M1 Max Studio and it randomly disengages with some external devices (NVMe; monitor). Great vid!
What cord/dock are you running from LG ultra gear to mac to get the full 240hz?
just a standard HDMI Cable!
I run mine on a 43” monitor connected with the HDMI port, it defaults to 60 Hz, if I reboot it, I can select 144Hz. Sometimes I reboot it or leave it at 60Hz.
Will the base model M2 Mac Mini with 8GB work with all the new features of Apple Intelligence?
Roughly how long is a very very long time?
Great vids! You mentioned the Dell U4025QW Thunderbolt hub monitor and that you had issues achieving full resolution and refresh rates when trying multiple monitors with the Dell. But were you able to achieve full 5K at 120 Hz on the Dell alone? I’d like to know more about the compatibility and which connections (and settings if any) will optimize display quality with the mini M4 Pro.
Yes as a single screen, no issues at all!
@@PeteMathesongood to know. Thanks for your input!
Bought the Mac mini base model and tested some large CAD assemblies with fusion 360 and was very surprised how well it could manage that.
Bottom line the value for that base model is amazing, but don't buy the upgrades.
I have the base model on a Samsung 49” 5k and a portable 1080p monitor I’ll try hooking up a 3rd. My main issue is it can end up looking like a cable monster without a hub.
Yeah and there aren't a huge number of ports on the back after you start hooking up multiple screens + adapters etc !
I did buy the same spec’d out M4 Pro that you had but it’s going to be my MacBook M1 Max replacement since that machine just sits on my desk and doesn’t get moved. I have an M2 MacBook Pro 14 inch for that. My M1 will find other uses though. Am I mad that Apple is selling storage for a stupid upgrade, yes, I think they need to lower the price and bring it inline with what they did with the 16GB base memory. It’s atrocious they’re selling Macs with 256GB still and charge $200 to go to $512 or $400 for 1TB. At least someone has an option potentially to fix this.
Yeah it’s infuriating! Nice upgrade - and same kinda thoughts here with replacing my MacBook Pro with the Mini 👍🏼
Yes, we need more "why I bought/ sold product XYZ" videos - what would I do if I didn't know what computer Pete (or any other influencer) bought yesterday? Ehhhhmmm - dunno..
I have the M4 mini Pro and tried Cyberpunk 77 on Crossover and it ran at 25 FPS or 45 FPS with tweaking. It ran much faster on my Windows machine with the RTX3080. I think Crossover places too much overhead on the game. Apparently there will be a native Mac version of Cyberpunk 77 in 2025.
To be fair, the game seemed playable if you ignore the FPS display.
Whats the tiny thumb drive stuck in that mac like a tick?
M4 base only supports 2 screens unless you spec'd up to the M4 Pro.
Not everyone needs SD reader so it makes sense to eliminate it. I'd rather have CF and many others would rather have CF express or Cfast
I don’t get it what is this video about? Since it was released every UA-camr has repeated phrases about the best-valued basic model. You could just wright it in twitter
hay! I'm a stock trader, and doing heavy web browsing tab soo base model sufficient for me ??
Yeah, this is kinda why I moved away from Macintosh. Although the OS and the experience in general is great, the fact that the upgrades are unreasonably priced AND that there are no user replacable components is not very responsible. I guess Apple just meant money by wanting to appear as a "green" company xD
place it upside-down to access the power button.
update to sequoia 15.2 to get 240hz works great, need to do it in beta as of now
I had to do a few shutdown/restart cycles when my Caldigit and Qnap were having some issues on the first few days. Having to lift the back corner for restarts wasn’t an issue but it kinda felt like “this isn’t a Mac”. It’s a straight out bad design!
my Hackintosh i just built, 12 seconds, and it is not even dialed in, or overclocked. I9 10900K old school!
I’m getting the base MM M4 with 32g and 512ssd. Intro AI / LLM work. 10gb Ethernet, at EOL it’ll have a purpose.
Don’t need a dock to get USB A connection. An USB-C to USB-A will work perfectely…Also I don’t ever ever ever switch my iMac off….
Part of the 5% 💪
Woop woop! 🙌🏼
I've used the power button on my 2015 27" iMac probably ten times since I got it... about once per year. And who cares where the power button is on a mouse? Or even the charge port? Who wants to use a mouse plugged in?!! The magic mouse needs to be charged about 4x a YEAR with heavy use.
Maybe the Mac Mini will run 3 Apple Studio Displays.
It probably will - but I also don't fancy spending that much on 3x Apple Studio displays 😬 lol
Since the NAS has spinning hard drives….do you even get 1gb/s from it ?….seems like a huge bottleneck no ?..wouldn’t you need NVME drives to even come close to saturating 10gb Ethernet ?
It has a 2TB nvme cache. I think I just need to play with the config a little 👍🏼
A 6-bay NAS with modern HDDs in RAID-5 can get close to 1GB/s transfer speeds, so getting close to the 10Gbps network bandwidth which will always be lower than the theoretical maximum. Plus, as @PeteMatheson said, SSD caching can use the full network bandwidth.
You don't have to guess what monitor resolutions are supported, Apple puts it right on their product page. It's not secret.
Yes but seeing support for 8k displays doesn’t necessarily apply when trying to connect to 57” 240hz displays and I get a lot of questions on all my monitor videos with unusual resolutions :)
Wrong. It's vague and applies only to Apple's own displays. How do you translate 8K support to 8Kx2K or 5Kx2K, both of which can have severe scaling issues on the base Mac Mini and even the Pro and Max models.
It’s awesome
Apple already announce 2 triple A games coming this spring, so yeah they are coming and you will need all the juice you can get.
POWER BUTTON issued Solved I placed my M4 Mac Mini Basic up side down Bake side facing right because all the major cabling comes from the right side, But then I/m trying to run a Windows Laptop & the Mac Mini on the same Monitor using the samewireless Key Board & Mouse thru a switcher for both computers.
Crossover isn’t that complicated. You install Crossover, install Steam then launch your games lol
Even if it was 2x as cheap, efficient and powerful i wouldn't buy it because i don't need mac os only device.
Better than M2 Max studio??? Hmmm idk 🤷♂️
That into tho
🔥 haha, thanks!
i'm leaving the mac world for WINDOWS, yes get that. I have a massive apple eco system but for my main computer i'm going PC. It's not the hardware, its the limitations of software for my use cases now.
what are you using for your own photo back ups also please? I couldn't get the name
Counter Strike 2(!) is barely older than 1 year. xD
Ohhhhhhh, haha fair! I lost touch with CS naming when they started changing to CS Go etc
@@PeteMatheson No problem, I thought so. But I wanted to tell you nevertheless. :-) Thanks for the video!
I'm only a minute in and going to at least like the video for using a Muse song.
drives are replaceable . you just void warranty. company making drives for them.
Apples base price have always been nonsense and anti consumer.. the base model now has a decent amount of ram but the HD? You always have to upgrade to make it useful either paying the apple tax or buying a third party HD. Apple makes ewaste at this point. They aren’t environmentally friendly. I’ve been an apple advocate since 1992 and having non upgradable machines from them is infuriating..
My predictions:
1. There will only be an M4 Max Mac Studio... the Ultra will only be in the Pro tower.
2. There will also be an M4 Quad or some non-SOC standard for those who REALLY want a fast computer.
I reckon they'll just stick with the Mac Studio going forward - they're kinda the same thing now?
Nah the Studio will get the Max and the Ultra and the Pro will get the Ultra and the “Extreme” (2 Ultras). That way they have a desktop Mac for every chip
no joke if this thing ran my fps games like valorant, the finals, csgo etc. I would sell my pc and just get this and be happy. But thats still some years away sadly
Complaining about upgrade prices is like telling the Porsche dealer you don’t want factory upgrade options. Macs are expensive, they have been since the VERY first mac that Jobs for sold $666.66
This is precisely what happens when ppl who don't know much about computers review them.... Just because you have a platform doesn't mean you're qualified to talk about these things... The benchmarks you're bringing up on this video are GPU-bound... You will not see any major differences in these units. Even an M1 Max from years ago will yield better results for these benchmarks than the M4 Pro chip.
@@mario_luis_dev Someone on another UA-cam review pointed out that exporting to 4:2:2 prores is like zero effort you need to export it to an h.265 to give it some encoding and compression work to do?
It's interested that your editor in New Zeland remotely access to do his editing. How is the lag when doing remote access?
That's what we're working on still. I've heard of other channels doing it successfully.
The only issue we're working on now is the input lag - early days though!
Currently he just sync's everything locally via Google drive.