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when i first laid eyes on the 2018 mac mini the first words out of my mouth

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were does apple make it bigger and i actually wasn't the only one

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so i got myself all pumped up to be like yo so it's not so many anymore is it you

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know what we should just call it the mac

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but but as it turns out they actually didn't make it bigger it's just been so

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long since apple has updated the mac mini that either you think of this

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or this or this

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which is the original mac mini not this

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i guess we've just been spoiled by the Intel nook and all the third-party

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derivatives but so you know what i'm actually gonna stick with it this

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product shouldn't be called the mac mini

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it should be called the mac but

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that might not be a bad thing

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so we stumbled upon the first reason that this is a mac

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not a mac mini during the ordering process

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unlike previous mac mini models the 2018

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mac is not cheap it starts at 7.99 for

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the quad core experience with a piddly 8 gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage

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now obviously i'm no pleb so i poked around on the ordering page some more

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and ended up ponying up for the second reason that this is a mac the desktop

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class 6 core processor option

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yes my friends starting at 1099 us you

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can get the same performance as your diy pc building chump roommate in a device

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this big the unboxing experience certainly was

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pretty legendary but things were looking up from there and isn't it beautiful the

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thing weighs only about three pounds and is completely clean aside from the

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glossy apple logo on the top oh well

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around back we've got this air vent that apple says doubles air flow over the

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last gen and above the io which impressively is nearly identical to the

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imac pro and includes four Thunderbolt 3

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ports which have all kinds of uses display usb external docks whatever

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we've got HDMI usb a and a headphone

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jack hey is that where they've been keeping them

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anyway what we've also got is the main event for me right here a 10 gigabit

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networking port and this is not only available on the mac but even reasonably

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priced at about 100 bucks for the upgrade so now we can finally edit ak

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footage over the network without needing an imac pro or an expensive Thunderbolt

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to 10 gigabit networking adapter so why don't we do it

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ah macOS my old friend

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macos not my favorite in no small part though due to my lack of familiarity

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with it but to its credit it's actually remarkably smooth on this machine with

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its mere eight gigs of RAM with that said the experience isn't all it could

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be with a more reasonable amount of system memory and i've got some good

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news with about half an hour and a handy dandy guide off of ifixit anyone with a

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screwdriver should be able to perform a memory upgrade on the 2018 mac remember

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that's what i'm calling it by themselves

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so i called in a friend to help me out he knows all about disassembling apple

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products it's actually easier than you might think to get inside this thing you just

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need the right tools here are the steps the bottom lid just pops right off the

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antenna plate is just a few screws make sure though that you mark where the

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larger ones go for reassembly later you unscrew the wi-fi connector and

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carefully pry it up then unscrew the fan pry its connector

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up and remove it these two cables need to be carefully removed

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then you can take out the two large tr-10 screws that keep the motherboard

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fastened to the chassis give the rear i o plate a gentle push and it'll pop up

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and then out there's a cage around the RAM to reduce emi but four t6 screws

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later and we have regular old sodium

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slots just repeat this process in reverse once the RAM is in and you're

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done but i have some bad news too remember

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how i mentioned that you should buy as much storage as you will need when you order

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yeah about that so the uh let's call them rumors about

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apple blocking third-party operating systems from the mac mini and other t2

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chip enabled devices turns out to be false but only from a

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literal standpoint thanks to the t2 chip Linux isn't

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blocked from booting only from installing

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so if you fire it up into recovery mode and disable secure boot

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you can still boot Linux if you're into that even with the t2 chip but without

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access to the internal storage so we're booted back up here let's go

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into about this map boom there it is 32 gigs of ddr4 memory so at least the

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RAM upgrade worked and this was just with random memory

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that we had lying around in our warehouse so all that's left now then is to see

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how the 2018 mac stacks up with the competition in terms of its performance

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we're going to test it alongside the macbook pro 2018 the macbook air 2018 a

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hades canyon nook and a similarly priced

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desktop pc also while we aren't focusing on games

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today we're going to throw a few in there just to round out our testing as

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one might expect well relying on integrated graphics does the mac no

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favors even at 720p medium details it

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absolutely chugs in shadow of the tomb raider meaning that you're basically sol

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for all but esports titles and even then

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it's not a great experience until you plug in an external GPU via

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Thunderbolt 3. just bear in mind though that only AMD graphics cards are

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officially supported in macOS

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anyway that's not why you're buying a mac and when it comes to productivity

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thankfully the mac here occupies a niche much closer to the 2018 macbook pro than

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the 2018 macbook air thanks to its hefty

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CPU horsepower but while it does beat out our hades

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canyon nook in CPU performance it sadly doesn't come close in GPU and loses out

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entirely to our similarly priced stock

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desktop except actually for one case where macOS's aggressive boost factors

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in though this lack of performance compared to a

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full-size desktop would be a much bigger problem in our eyes if it wasn't for the

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max diminutive form factor speaking of which by the way it does

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have a reasonable looking ventilation hole but it got really hot like

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really hot while it was working hard like over 90 degrees hot

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which comes a little too close to literally smoking the competition for

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our liking i mean stock chips start to throttle around 85 degrees or so and

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yeah the mac manages to keep it going above base clock with surprisingly

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minimal noise so that's good but remember it's got that t2 chip that

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we're all familiar with by now so if some component of your system dies a

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heat death or the board flexes or something especially as dust accumulates

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inside over the years remember apple might not upgrade this thing for four

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years so even if you buy on every release cycle

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at least the good news is that it sips power compared to our desktop i'm just

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saying i would recommend setting up time machine just to be safe

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which honestly is a pretty good way to sum up the whole experience one giant

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asterisk yeah it's a small mac

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but you're going to have to deal with no dedicated GPU when similarly priced kits

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have them yes it's fast but it's thermal

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solution while improved is not designed for sustained loads yes it's upgradable

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and cleanable but only if you have the right tools and that upgradeable thing

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it only applies to RAM not the internal storage that is held

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ransom by the t2 chip like it really seems like apple designed this new

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generation of mac with something like final cut or adobe premiere in mind

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where the igp can accelerate some of the transcoding work and then the CPU cores

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themselves can handle the much burstier timeline editing work that's even more

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apparent with the inclusion of 10 gig Ethernet for connecting to a high speed

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nas though we're not saying that's the only thing it could be used for because on

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that subject you could actually use this thing as a high speed nas thanks to that

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10 gig Ethernet though for the price and considering

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that you'd need a separate Thunderbolt enclosure for true mass storage well

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it's not a great value in spite of the compromises though

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per apple tradition there's nothing in this form factor that quite matches the

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capability and the connectivity of the

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2018 mac and the price while

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higher isn't entirely outlandish either

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so if you need its unique blend of form and function

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or if you just plain need a mac and don't feel like paying more to have a

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screen pre-attached to it seriously actually this occurred to us only while

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we were finalizing the script for this video this is the only thing that runs macOS

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and doesn't include a screen that has been refreshed by apple in the last five

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years anyway it's a pretty neat little machine

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just make sure you keep regular backups of all of your files

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