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of a year now i guess black stand got a little cover over the i o and this is of course where the disappointment starts now it's nothing to do with the performance of the apple silicon m1 but for me one of the big highlights of the latest generation mac minis has been the ability to equip them with 10 gigabit networking that's something that we use specifically for our use case where we wanted macOS footage ingestations that we can offload footage from to our network storage unfortunately for whatever reason and i'm sure this is something that's going to be explored in depth over the coming weeks apple was not able to or didn't want to equipped the new m1 mac with a 10 gigabit option even so you're stuck with one gig networking you've got two Thunderbolt ports although exactly what is different about them we don't know but we do know they have no support for external gpus at least at this time HDMI a couple of usb 3 ports which normally i would gripe about but you've got Thunderbolt which is also a type c slash usb4 the nomenclature's getting really confusing there so you can break these out into a dongle or whatever the case may be a cooling vent as well as a headphone jack now apple to my knowledge has only really quoted performance per watt at least on the product page assuming a 10 watt TDP for the m1 chip but what we also know is that it could potentially be configured with a greater TDP and that's something we'd be more likely to see on a device that doesn't have to rely on a battery for power a lot for all i know they might just go with the same approach on all of them just to keep things from getting confusing of course there's a power button and before we even fire it up i kind of want to open it up you got that ifixit kit yeah just like apple apple likes ifixit kits too you guys see that ah the delicious irony of apple featuring ifixit in their promotional video launching the m1 processor i personally really enjoyed that wait before we do that maybe i should at least finish unboxing the thing so we got a power cable nice environmentally conscious packaging though all of this appears to be paper quite literally all of it that's fantastic this video is brought to you by private internet access pia is a vpn that allows you to access services and websites as though you were in a different country it encrypts all of your internet traffic and uses a safe protected ip and allows you to connect up to five devices at once with clients for Windows macOS that's right Android iOS and Linux buy a one year plan for 39.95 and get three months for free at the link in the video description appears to be some kind of cover for the wireless antenna ah that makes sense because the entire rest of this device is encased in metal your wi-fi won't work very well like that now will it are you excited to see the insides andy yeah please tell me this is just taped on sorry give me a sec here oh cool it just pops out sorry i couldn't really get you a good look at that see it just goes into these little clips and then it looks like they've given you enough slack almost yeah there you go to just put it aside and get access to the inside wow there is there is a whole heck of a not a lot in here wow got a little speaker right there got a little cmos battery right there so this is the power supply right over here cooling fan if apple was a pc manufacturer they would probably say oh wow look at all the space we've got in here we could put like a you know two and a half inch drive bay for expansion for all i know this thing doesn't even have a seda controller on it though i don't see why it would i mean that's the thing when you make your own bespoke silicon you don't have to build in any legacy or unnecessary features that you're not planning to use in your devices so why would you have a SATA controller look at this the coolers like half of the internals if nothing else ladies and gentlemen can you respect the cable management i mean yeah it only has four cables or whatever but boy are they where are they managed now Anthony needs to do thermal testing in our full review of this thing which means that i unfortunately cannot pop the heatsink off of the soc as much as i would love to look at it but with everyone out there who got units early already covering this thing i'm sure you'll be able to find a picture of it if you really want to okay i guess i just voided the warranty probably well what did you think was gonna happen jono you gave me an ifixit kit and a mac mini you think the warranty was gonna be intact by the time i was done all right well that's it that's the whole darn main board as we talked about in our coverage of apple's launch event for their m1 max which i was not a fan of by the way anytime a company comes out and presents unlabeled graphs or vague comparisons against their competitors i find it a suspect and b just unnecessary if you're confident in your product just come out and give us the real goods i mean either way i've got it in my hands now so soon enough we're going to be able to run our own comparisons but as we discussed in that video there is not a whole lot to this no m.2 expansion slot or even proprietary expansion slot uh no sodium slot that was something that we were a big fan of on the previous mac mini sorry i don't have a great angle for you of the back of the board there but you'll have to trust me there's no sodium slot that's another really funny thing i saw people kind of criticizing me for complaining about that they were like um lightest macbooks haven't had upgradeable memory in years right which is which is true but apple also launched a mac mini and the previous mac mini looked to us like it was a step in the right direction in terms of user upgradability it just had easily accessible sodium slots this one does not there's no expansion whatsoever and you're stuck with either eight gigs or 16 gigs of memory built right into the m1 soc of course one of the advantages of the m1 is the fact that the dram is built right into the soc so the bad part of that is no future expansion no upgradeability nothing like that but the good part of it is that everything from the CPU GPU neural processor everything has direct access to that memory which as we've seen exploring AMD's what did they what's their stupid branding for that again smart access memory as we discussed when we tested smart access memory which allows an AMD Radeon CPU to have full access to a Radeon 6000 series gpus memory there can be significant performance gains we saw anywhere from low to mid single digit performance gains in games using that feature so depending on how this is laid out apple could have even more available bandwidth on its hands because if you look at something like a GPU it's connected using pci express 16x and even a gen 4 link is nothing compared to the type of memory interface you can build by putting a core right next to dram and linking them up directly of course we didn't see any performance improvement in productivity applications using smart access memory so as always it's going to come down to developer support as well as the specific architecture to determine what kind of performance improvement you're going to see now one of the things i've seen speculated about the m1 is that because it shares a lot of its heritage with apple's a series of mobile first socs and well that is to say i mean a macbook air is technically a mobile device but i think you guys know what i mean like iphones and ipads is that that could be part of the reason why io seems at least on first glance fairly limited because something like being able to have four Thunderbolt ports on an ipad is obviously a pretty low priority so it might have been a lot of work to bolt on and there might have been internal bottlenecks that you would have hit if you tried to actually daisy chain you know what is it six times 24 devices off the bloody thing of course my expectation was that this is a very first generation attempt at this and we're going to see big improvements down the line and i did predict that apple will abandon these first generation m1 series products relatively quickly which isn't to say though that i think that they're going to abandon it you know immediately like something like i mean what's an example of a product that got abandoned completely immediately remember that lenovo fab thing with like google project tango augmented reality okay that's a product that got really abandoned i think that this is just going to be apple's kind of abandoned so if you look at something like the software support of the ipad first gen versus the ipad 2 it's like not even close that's kind of my expectation here but i would love i would absolutely love to be proven wrong as for the performance as for the app compatibility i mean the embargo just lifted like a couple of hours before i filmed this thing we actually apple did a great job of delivering our system on time so at least credit to them for that so i'm going to be leaving that to Anthony to test on his own one of the big features here is of course is that you're not going to be able to run just ARM compatible versions of programs on this so photoshop is something that is notably missing a native app for the new m1 version max but also x86 compatible apps so you can run photoshop using rosetta 2 and also ipad and iphone apps so theoretically this could be like the device that kind of runs it all just it remains to be seen with what kind of performance and with what kind of compatibility it was kind of inevitable if you think about it though i mean it's not like apple's the first to say okay you know screw it screw x86 we're going ARM i mean amazon's doing it like it's already happening graviton chips man if i'm Intel and AMD i'm sort of wondering what my what my jam is going to be if x86 loses its dominance at this point have fun Anthony this one is going to be an adventure i think speaking of adventures make sure you're subscribed to ShortCircuit so you don't miss any of our first hands-on impressions and adventures with new devices like this one man it has been a busy tech tober all the way into like tech november"}