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it's not often that you can look at an Apple product and say wow that's a good

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deal 13 000.

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true their products are well made and long lasting but the higher prices found

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across the lineup can make them inaccessible

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and yet this new Mac Mini is six hundred

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dollars 500 if you're a student that's 100 less than it used to be this seems

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like a shockingly good deal but what's the catch well to find out we gave it to

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a typical Mac User to see if at this price point there are any noticeable

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trade-offs we did find one thing out though but it probably won't matter to

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you it does to me

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what's surprising about this new Mac Mini is that it's not just a price drop

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it's a full update too Wi-Fi Bluetooth

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Thunderbolt And even the headphone jack are all better and that's not all as you

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also get the M2 processor with the full 10 core GPU

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that's a notable though not groundbreaking performance Improvement

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especially for the price you can take things further and upgrade the Mac Mini

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to the M2 Pro chip though that does cost considerably more and is geared towards

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professionals the base mini is better suited for average people one of whom I

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will now meet

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all right hi hey come on in thank you

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yeah thanks so would you consider yourself an average person average in

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what sense the average computer user maybe yeah oh

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yeah I play video games do Zoom calls for class and I do my homework like yeah

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this is Alexis wiggett last year she moved to Vancouver to study acting her

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use case for a computer is pretty normal using it for school and light

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entertainment and given that she currently uses an iPhone iPad and

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MacBook Pro we thought she'd be the perfect fit to test the new Mac so what

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computer do you currently use um I'm using this one right here

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for those specific things like how does it perform it's not slow it's not

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incredibly fast yeah if I play it for like 20 minutes my computer sounds like

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it's dying really yeah I can't ever

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really have it on the highest setting yeah but overall like it's still usable

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I still do it I was thinking a little bit of disappointment in the computer

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well okay here's the thing um

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yes yeah okay yeah yeah that's a good

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word for it it's disappointment okay so we brought along a new Mac Mini for you

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to test it's about five years younger than your computer yes okay so here's

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the one thing I'm not gonna tell you how much the computer costs don't look any

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of it up any of the specs or any of that just use the computer okay that's fun by

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having her not know the price of the setup we can hopefully get an unbiased

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opinion about how everything performs and whether or not she feels it's an

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improvement over her own MacBook it's a 2018 MacBook Pro which was two thousand

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dollars at release she got it as a gift from her family who are Avid Mac users

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themselves so this should be a good fit

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since the Mac Mini famously doesn't come with any peripherals you and Alexis are

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gonna need some to keep things affordable we elected to

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use a 100 1080p Acer monitor as well as

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a Logitech keyboard and mouse Each of which cost forty dollars and use

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Bluetooth so that you can keep those precious USB ports free if you need a

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webcam and have an iPhone the Belkin magsafe monitor mount is a

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cost-effective solution and while the Mac Mini does have a built-in speaker I

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do recommend buying a separate set if you want to listen to anything beyond system notifications

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all together this comes out to 780 dollars and while it's not the most

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clean setup on the desk remember that terrible iMac I bought from the

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refurbished store last year that was 890

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and I wouldn't recommend that to anyone which is way better okay we're ready for

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you yeah so we set up I gotta get a profile

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set up for you we'll log in here we got

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the new Resident Evil game installs wait really yeah what she did say you want to

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play so give give it a go no I never thought I'd actually like

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okay you never thought you'd actually play the thing is I'm like a coward so

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oh I know me too me too so what do you think of the graphics

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it feels like I'm not wearing my contacts now oh okay let's just try and

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fix these Graphics let me see what I can do it doesn't look like we have enough

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storage though I mean I think it's memory and I think

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we're fine how can we upgrade it

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uh this is a bit of a controversy yeah

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um yeah with this Mac Mini there is a little bit

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of an elephant in the room memory and

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storage it has 8 and 256 gigabytes

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respectively and that's getting to be a little low especially considering that

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with apple silicon the RAM is Unified

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meaning it's shared between the GPU and CPU

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also with the M2 Apple has changed the

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storage speeds in base configurations which are now up to 50 slower than the

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base M1 so you're losing something but is it too

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much well going by our experience with the machine I'd say no compared to a

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fully upgraded M2 MacBook Air with 24 gigabytes of RAM there's no noticeable

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difference in everyday tasks which include web browsing emails word

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processing and listening to music pushing the Mac Mini harder it handles

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light photo editing in Lightroom and speeds through 4K prores footage in

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Final Cut and yes it can handle gaming like War Thunder they're also sponsoring

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refuses to slow down when I'm intentionally try trying to push the

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computer playing 8K footage on that timeline but it's when doing all these

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things at the same time that you push the limits of memory and the Machine

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stutters so if you're a big multi-tasker or work

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with large files the upgrade to 16 gigabytes of memory is an easy albeit

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costly and annoying recommendation Apple

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has always been stingy when it comes to memory and storage especially when

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compared to PCS but consider this at our

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local Best Buy the cheapest desktop PC available has the same memory and

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storage as the Mac Mini for the same price sure the PC is more likely to go

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on sale but a refurbished M1 Mac Mini is now 470 dollars so spec wise it shows

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just how competitive the Mac Mini has become I'm confident this will work for

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most people let's see how it worked for Alexis

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okay so you've had the computer for a couple of days what do you think I mean

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yeah it's a nice computer I'll give it that yeah yeah yeah no I I didn't have

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any problems with it what were some of the first things you installed in the Mac Mini it was Minecraft ah

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it was Minecraft there's no shame in playing Minecraft I just want to make

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this clear there's a macOS version of it right I

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I'm too old for Minecraft you can play Java version you can't play better Rock

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how did Minecraft then run on the Mac

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Mini compared to the yeah it was fine it

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ran probably a bit faster yeah a bit more smoother so it seems

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like you're a bit of a gamer which Macs

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aren't really good for are they I don't know

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um I wanted to download things like Ark

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survival evolved that's just simply

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couldn't get it to work wasn't able to find one that was able to work with uh I

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think it's Ventura was the is the new one yet yeah yeah nothing I could get to

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correspond with that oh so this Mac Mini

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added a bunch of complexity to the way you want to use your computer yeah

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exactly I don't know sometimes I feel like I'm putting off trying to even

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bother downloading a game if I'm playing a game I want to relax I don't want to

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like have a headache trying to set this up you know I was not expecting you to

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be such a gamer and it seems like that's the one big weakness of macOS but why

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not just get a gaming console the thing is I I didn't really grow up with a

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console like why would I just not stick with the controls that I'm used to okay

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so back to this Mac how much do you

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think it sells for oh how much do I think Apple sells it

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yeah like if you go if you were to go on the website what would be the price listed underneath a picture of the Mac

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Mini approximately three grand maybe three grand yeah wow it's you think it's

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that powerful no oh okay but it's Apple okay okay fair enough oh

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but it's okay how much would you pay for it

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um 1500 maybe okay okay so the actual

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retail price is 600 us or 800 Canadian

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really

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wow okay well that's that's surprising I

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will be completely honest really is this like this is like a new computer though

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brand new just came out last month so does that sort of changed the calculus

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for you much more doable I'm still gonna buy it

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though

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it looks bad I don't I just don't think it offers a lot of the things that

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I mean I personally want I can't speak

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for other people but it's really worth looking into uh what you want exactly in

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the future as well as currently when you're about to invest in a computer

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because I think if I were to go back in time I would have really done my

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research and pushed for a PC rather than a Mac and stuff said but yeah it's

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simply not the right or wrong choice for everyone I

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guess I'm not going to win you over a don't try

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Alexis's experience made me realize something

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the switch to Apple silicon has not only made what's great about the Mac even

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better it's also exacerbated the negatives

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true you can get impressive performance in Apple's cheapest machines but now

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that they run an ARM you can't rely on boot camp for apps and games not

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available on the Mac and developers now need to put more effort into Port their

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PC games to Apples chips and apis the

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results can be amazing but with fewer than three percent of steam users on Mac

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OS I'm not holding my breath so where

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does that leave this thing well outside of games neither Alexis nor I really

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felt held back by the hardware and even though she said she wouldn't buy one

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it's a great experience as far as Max go

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from there though we clearly differ she

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feels inconvenienced by staying on macOS whereas moving to Windows would

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inconvenience me what the

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ultimately I think the real question is if macOS works for you as far as the

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average person goes this should be able to fly through anything you throw at it

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it just can't do everything at once and

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if it can do everything you need it to do it's a great option uh just think

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about the RAM upgrade if you want the machine to last that's really how they

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get you with that RAM upgrade thanks for lowering the price of this

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Mac Address if you love that the Mac Mini is now only six hundred dollars

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give this video a like and if you want to know how expensive you can make a Mac

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Mini well you might as well subscribe I'm curious in the comments if any of

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you are running any Apple silicon Max with eight gigabytes of RAM have you

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pushed it to the limits and if so how