look it's another Mac Mini Apple's cheapest computer and this time it has
M2 it looks pretty much the same on the outside it's a Mac Mini we got some
specs this is the eight Gigabyte model 256 gig storage Encore CPU 10 core GPU
that's not the pro one which is actually kind of cool that's a new product the
previous Mac Mini did not have a pro you had to go to the Mac Studio but ours we
expect it with 10 gig internet so it's not here yet this is a very form-fitting
box actually I guess I should use the Apple thing
look at that you wouldn't want to ship this without some extra foam because the
box is not doing anything it seems like an unnecessary piece of plastic I'm not
gonna lie like what are they protecting does this get scratched easily it
doesn't seem like it all right what else is in the Box here propaganda cable I
pity the person in the Apple Factory who has to like assemble these paper things
this is awful and that's it no power
brick wow that's a big apple sticker
whoa let's just upgrade this thing right now look at how much more Apple we're
gonna have oh oh that's brutal that's brutal I'm
sorry that was not intentional it's just so sticky on the outside we have a
beautiful Apple sticker and logo on the front oh yeah there's a little power LED
there side nothing other side also nothing but on the back ooh power button
our power jack one gig Ethernet you can also spec it with 10 if you want got two
Thunderbolt four ports HDMI two USB a ports headphone jack and a little
cooling vent if you upgrade to the pro model you get four Thunderbolt ports
like the Max studio but other than that it's the same i o as last time I think
it's HDMI 2.1 now so we're gonna have to try that later with the TV over there
um the specs page was not super clear about that it doesn't say HDMI 2.1 but
it does say you can do 4K I think 144 no
4K 240 I thought it said and 8K 60 at
the very least it's not like rubbery at all so it doesn't
doesn't keep it in place you know like you could curl with this thing very
Sleek I think the top is actually oh yeah yeah it's got It's got more
friction on the top than the bottom it's really bad
it's like it's even got bubbles underneath it I'm usually the kind of
guy that leaves it to troll you but
it's actually bugging me at this point so I'm gonna oh so much better in terms
of the internal specs of course the CPU is an M2 instead of an M1 you can go up
to 24 gigs of RAM instead of 16 you do get the nice prores encode and decode
engine on the M2 the max storage is still two terabytes on the non-pro but
if you go up to the M2 pro version you can go up to a 12 core CPU or 19 core
GPU you get 200 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth instead of 100 you can
do up to 32 gigs of RAM and up to eight terabytes of storage any of the models
can be spec with 10 gig internet on the standard port or you can use a dongle
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
and that was like kind of one of their things it's got so much connectivity
this one has two ports but the pro has four and that's that's the same one
thing I would say about these it would be cool if Apple
it would be cool it would be cool if Apple added like two
type c ports to the front like not everyone wants to plug everything in the
back especially if you're charging your mouse from the bottom of the Mouse ah
something else I didn't mention this Mac Mini has Wi-Fi 6E which can do like
above gigabit speed so despite the Ethernet port being gigabit you can do
like 1.5 gig on the Wi-Fi so the Wi-Fi might actually be faster than Ethernet
on this particular one maybe I should charge this
no Andrew it looks stupid hi
Apple it's stupid it's so stupid
slight correction the studio does technically have more i o it has two
Thunderbolts on the front and an SD card reader so there's a little bit more
which is what they should do on this thing but then how would they sell the
studio all right the first thing I want to see is this wi-fi 60 is it fast is it truly
brutally fast we don't have any Wi-Fi 60 devices connected so theoretically this
should be very fast wow truly astonishing not not that fast I
mean the AP is like pretty far it's in the ceiling probably 20 feet away 700
megabits pretty good for Wi-Fi okay so Wi-Fi 6E pretty sick I think if you had
your AP closer you could do even better I personally have tested Wi-Fi 6E at
like one and a half gigabit which is the double even what we had here so it's
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
half gigabytes a second both ways it's fine to go to the 512 gig that would be
faster you're looking at you know an extra 200 so for the price it's not bad
let's try pass Mark yeah so it's like 6.8 6.9 percent I mean there's a lot
less samples but I mean for for one year seven percent it's not bad what score
did we get 16 000 wow the thing to consider is that this M2 Chip is going
to be in a bunch of different devices so a bunch of the samples for this could
have been done in a like a MacBook Air that doesn't have additional Cooling and
that could hurt what I'm curious about is if this thing thermal throttles they
may just testing endurance I think this is the one yeah
this one okay cool I believe this is made by the same guy
yeah it's made by the same guy that makes TG Pro which is a really great app
for monitoring your Mac you can see all the different statistics we do have a
license don't worry if we bought many he also gave us some but I don't want to
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
not a super realistic test because it is just cranking the CPU at 100 but it will
be interesting to see if it does throttle we're only at 60 degrees I
suspect that this will not throttle easily it's still at the minimum 1700
RPM speed doesn't really seem like it's getting any hotter which is great so
you're at least getting the full fat performance out of this M2 Chip I mean
it's an efficient chip we knew that but great cool I want to know if it has a
speaker I'm sorry buddy oh it does have
a speaker maybe it's just bad when it's facing at you foreign
so let's let's try to be a little more realistic about how this would be set up
if this was on my desk so it's over there there would be a wall behind me
probably in the real world but we're just going to ignore that part sounds
pretty tingy so far
let's max out
it's like serviceable I think if all you were
trying to do is not play music you just
need to do like a video call anything that's not music it would be
okay what about like what about like Linus talking
ShortCircuit Yeah well yeah but you don't want to watch short circles
is a computer it's pretty tingy now what I'm curious
about is is my iPhone better or worse well MacBooks okay Apple laptops
MacBooks way better for sure
I'm pretty sure the iPhone sounds better it's not great
um do Apple monitors have speakers in them because I mean this obviously
doesn't have a monitor you're going to need to buy a monitor that's part of why
it's so cheap but if all the Apple monitors have speakers and they're like
decent then I guess it's less of a less of a concern either way integrated
speakers worse than an iPhone not by much but a little bit worse I would say
headphones airpods you can use airpods airpods are great should we take it
apart now oh okay look at this computer how do we do this does anybody know
bellavonts
what cool that was really easy to get off
actually oh there's little like rubber thingies that sit on the screws okay
that seems pretty serviceable so far there's a little
screw holding the Wi-Fi connector on it's very common for people to take
their devices apart and just rip the Wi-Fi antenna out so it's very good that
they put that there okay I got it off and I didn't break it
hey this is so I mean in terms of serviceability this
the little presumably BIOS batteries right there
this has got to be the power supply over here wow it's so smart okay look at this
see how it's at an angle this part is that an angle it's so you can get a
screwdriver in there a normal screwdriver and you don't need like a
really short custom like stubby one that would fit straight it's at an angle
I mean I don't know what genius it's just reasonably smart I refuse to
acknowledge that this is such a there's like nothing in here why don't they make
this thing smaller it's it's like half it's half empty I don't
know how to take off man they are vibing with those dumpsters
that was pretty brutal I'm sorry
cool pretty sure this part just like kind of Vibes off
hey there we go okay wow so there's the chassis with the
power supply nice little integrated unit I don't know how to take that part out
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
just chill in there and then this is the actual board oh there's the speaker
that's why it sounds like garbage it's inside it would fire almost entirely up
into the metal but there is little vents here so that's
the only place you're getting the audio from that would explain why it's kind of
crap that's probably storage right there do I dare take the heatsink off
well I'm not I'm not worried about it
there's a lot of little things on the back of this board you could very easily knock off this whole thing this fascia
piece is connected here so taking it off
means the whole back thing is just vibing now
okay well that's not that bad hey heatsink
little tiny processor it's kind of interesting that it's like half of an
IHS it's like cut and then they have the memory solder to it it's very cute
um I'm gonna reuse the stock thermal paste so that
not really like altered characteristics hey it's back together look at that it's
a Mac Mini now to talk pricing this
particular one with eight gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigs of storage is 5.99
which is Apple's cheapest computer it's almost half the price of an iPhone 14
pro if you want to upgrade the storage or the CPU or anything else that starts
to add up very quickly like I said before it's 200 to go to the
512 version so that's 7.99 and if you go to the pro which has a 10 core CPU 16
core GPU 16 gigs of RAM and a 5 12 gig
SSD 12.99 but you do also get two extra
Thunderbolt ports on the back if you're in the market for a small computer from
Apple and you don't want to spend a lot of money this is a great option if you
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