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look it's another Mac Mini Apple's cheapest computer and this time it has

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M2 it looks pretty much the same on the outside it's a Mac Mini we got some

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specs this is the eight Gigabyte model 256 gig storage Encore CPU 10 core GPU

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that's not the pro one which is actually kind of cool that's a new product the

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previous Mac Mini did not have a pro you had to go to the Mac Studio but ours we

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expect it with 10 gig internet so it's not here yet this is a very form-fitting

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box actually I guess I should use the Apple thing

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look at that you wouldn't want to ship this without some extra foam because the

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box is not doing anything it seems like an unnecessary piece of plastic I'm not

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gonna lie like what are they protecting does this get scratched easily it

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doesn't seem like it all right what else is in the Box here propaganda cable I

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pity the person in the Apple Factory who has to like assemble these paper things

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this is awful and that's it no power

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brick wow that's a big apple sticker

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whoa let's just upgrade this thing right now look at how much more Apple we're

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gonna have oh oh that's brutal that's brutal I'm

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sorry that was not intentional it's just so sticky on the outside we have a

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beautiful Apple sticker and logo on the front oh yeah there's a little power LED

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there side nothing other side also nothing but on the back ooh power button

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our power jack one gig Ethernet you can also spec it with 10 if you want got two

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Thunderbolt four ports HDMI two USB a ports headphone jack and a little

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cooling vent if you upgrade to the pro model you get four Thunderbolt ports

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like the Max studio but other than that it's the same i o as last time I think

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it's HDMI 2.1 now so we're gonna have to try that later with the TV over there

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um the specs page was not super clear about that it doesn't say HDMI 2.1 but

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it does say you can do 4K I think 144 no

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4K 240 I thought it said and 8K 60 at

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the very least it's not like rubbery at all so it doesn't

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doesn't keep it in place you know like you could curl with this thing very

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Sleek I think the top is actually oh yeah yeah it's got It's got more

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friction on the top than the bottom it's really bad

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it's like it's even got bubbles underneath it I'm usually the kind of

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guy that leaves it to troll you but

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it's actually bugging me at this point so I'm gonna oh so much better in terms

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of the internal specs of course the CPU is an M2 instead of an M1 you can go up

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to 24 gigs of RAM instead of 16 you do get the nice prores encode and decode

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engine on the M2 the max storage is still two terabytes on the non-pro but

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if you go up to the M2 pro version you can go up to a 12 core CPU or 19 core

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GPU you get 200 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth instead of 100 you can

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do up to 32 gigs of RAM and up to eight terabytes of storage any of the models

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can be spec with 10 gig internet on the standard port or you can use a dongle

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with the Thunderbolt that works too other than that pretty much the same I

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the pro one which we haven't gotten yet is it has the same i o as the Mac Studio

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and that was like kind of one of their things it's got so much connectivity

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this one has two ports but the pro has four and that's that's the same one

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thing I would say about these it would be cool if Apple

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it would be cool it would be cool if Apple added like two

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type c ports to the front like not everyone wants to plug everything in the

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back especially if you're charging your mouse from the bottom of the Mouse ah

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something else I didn't mention this Mac Mini has Wi-Fi 6E which can do like

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above gigabit speed so despite the Ethernet port being gigabit you can do

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like 1.5 gig on the Wi-Fi so the Wi-Fi might actually be faster than Ethernet

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on this particular one maybe I should charge this

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no Andrew it looks stupid hi

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Apple it's stupid it's so stupid

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slight correction the studio does technically have more i o it has two

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Thunderbolts on the front and an SD card reader so there's a little bit more

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which is what they should do on this thing but then how would they sell the

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studio all right the first thing I want to see is this wi-fi 60 is it fast is it truly

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brutally fast we don't have any Wi-Fi 60 devices connected so theoretically this

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should be very fast wow truly astonishing not not that fast I

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mean the AP is like pretty far it's in the ceiling probably 20 feet away 700

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megabits pretty good for Wi-Fi okay so Wi-Fi 6E pretty sick I think if you had

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your AP closer you could do even better I personally have tested Wi-Fi 6E at

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like one and a half gigabit which is the double even what we had here so it's

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fast though I like that they're including it I hope the new iPhone has it too it's fine it's you know one and a

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half gigabytes a second both ways it's fine to go to the 512 gig that would be

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faster you're looking at you know an extra 200 so for the price it's not bad

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let's try pass Mark yeah so it's like 6.8 6.9 percent I mean there's a lot

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less samples but I mean for for one year seven percent it's not bad what score

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did we get 16 000 wow the thing to consider is that this M2 Chip is going

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to be in a bunch of different devices so a bunch of the samples for this could

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have been done in a like a MacBook Air that doesn't have additional Cooling and

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that could hurt what I'm curious about is if this thing thermal throttles they

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may just testing endurance I think this is the one yeah

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this one okay cool I believe this is made by the same guy

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yeah it's made by the same guy that makes TG Pro which is a really great app

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for monitoring your Mac you can see all the different statistics we do have a

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license don't worry if we bought many he also gave us some but I don't want to

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type in the server credentials so I'm just going to use the trial don't get mad at me I love you this is obviously

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not a super realistic test because it is just cranking the CPU at 100 but it will

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be interesting to see if it does throttle we're only at 60 degrees I

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suspect that this will not throttle easily it's still at the minimum 1700

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RPM speed doesn't really seem like it's getting any hotter which is great so

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you're at least getting the full fat performance out of this M2 Chip I mean

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it's an efficient chip we knew that but great cool I want to know if it has a

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speaker I'm sorry buddy oh it does have

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a speaker maybe it's just bad when it's facing at you foreign

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so let's let's try to be a little more realistic about how this would be set up

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if this was on my desk so it's over there there would be a wall behind me

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probably in the real world but we're just going to ignore that part sounds

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pretty tingy so far

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let's max out

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it's like serviceable I think if all you were

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trying to do is not play music you just

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need to do like a video call anything that's not music it would be

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okay what about like what about like Linus talking

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ShortCircuit Yeah well yeah but you don't want to watch short circles

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is a computer it's pretty tingy now what I'm curious

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about is is my iPhone better or worse well MacBooks okay Apple laptops

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MacBooks way better for sure

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I'm pretty sure the iPhone sounds better it's not great

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um do Apple monitors have speakers in them because I mean this obviously

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doesn't have a monitor you're going to need to buy a monitor that's part of why

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it's so cheap but if all the Apple monitors have speakers and they're like

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decent then I guess it's less of a less of a concern either way integrated

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speakers worse than an iPhone not by much but a little bit worse I would say

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headphones airpods you can use airpods airpods are great should we take it

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apart now oh okay look at this computer how do we do this does anybody know

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bellavonts

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what cool that was really easy to get off

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actually oh there's little like rubber thingies that sit on the screws okay

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that seems pretty serviceable so far there's a little

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screw holding the Wi-Fi connector on it's very common for people to take

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their devices apart and just rip the Wi-Fi antenna out so it's very good that

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they put that there okay I got it off and I didn't break it

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hey this is so I mean in terms of serviceability this

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the little presumably BIOS batteries right there

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this has got to be the power supply over here wow it's so smart okay look at this

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see how it's at an angle this part is that an angle it's so you can get a

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screwdriver in there a normal screwdriver and you don't need like a

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really short custom like stubby one that would fit straight it's at an angle

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I mean I don't know what genius it's just reasonably smart I refuse to

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acknowledge that this is such a there's like nothing in here why don't they make

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this thing smaller it's it's like half it's half empty I don't

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know how to take off man they are vibing with those dumpsters

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that was pretty brutal I'm sorry

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cool pretty sure this part just like kind of Vibes off

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hey there we go okay wow so there's the chassis with the

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power supply nice little integrated unit I don't know how to take that part out

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um oh there's a screw right there it's probably not that hard but I don't need to do that I think the power spy can

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just chill in there and then this is the actual board oh there's the speaker

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that's why it sounds like garbage it's inside it would fire almost entirely up

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into the metal but there is little vents here so that's

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the only place you're getting the audio from that would explain why it's kind of

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crap that's probably storage right there do I dare take the heatsink off

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well I'm not I'm not worried about it

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there's a lot of little things on the back of this board you could very easily knock off this whole thing this fascia

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piece is connected here so taking it off

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means the whole back thing is just vibing now

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okay well that's not that bad hey heatsink

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little tiny processor it's kind of interesting that it's like half of an

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IHS it's like cut and then they have the memory solder to it it's very cute

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um I'm gonna reuse the stock thermal paste so that

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not really like altered characteristics hey it's back together look at that it's

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a Mac Mini now to talk pricing this

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particular one with eight gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigs of storage is 5.99

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which is Apple's cheapest computer it's almost half the price of an iPhone 14

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pro if you want to upgrade the storage or the CPU or anything else that starts

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to add up very quickly like I said before it's 200 to go to the

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512 version so that's 7.99 and if you go to the pro which has a 10 core CPU 16

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core GPU 16 gigs of RAM and a 5 12 gig

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SSD 12.99 but you do also get two extra

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Thunderbolt ports on the back if you're in the market for a small computer from

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Apple and you don't want to spend a lot of money this is a great option if you

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like this video like it get subscribed if you want to see other Apple content

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maybe check out the M2 laptops that Alex just did

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um they're also pretty cool