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bold claims ladies and gentlemen this

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is it the apple mac mini with their new

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apple silicon m1 processor

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that's right my friends apple says

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CPU performance up to three times greater

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GPU performance up to six times greater

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and neural processor

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machine learning performance up to 15

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times greater that's right

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all of that and more can be yours

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for just what is it 699

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699 u.s is that right well from the outside

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it's a mac mini all right wow yeah really not much to make it stand out

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from the previous mac minis that we've been using here at the office as ingest

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stations for a better part of a year now i guess

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black stand got a little cover over the i o and this

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is of course where the disappointment starts now it's nothing to do with the

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performance of the apple silicon m1 but for me one of the big highlights

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of the latest generation mac minis has been the ability to equip them with

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10 gigabit networking that's something that we use specifically for our use case where we

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wanted macOS footage ingestations that we can offload

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footage from to our network storage unfortunately for

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whatever reason and i'm sure this is something that's going to be explored in

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depth over the coming weeks apple was not able to or didn't want to

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equipped the new m1 mac with a 10 gigabit option even so

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you're stuck with one gig networking you've got two Thunderbolt ports

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although exactly what is different about

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them we don't know but we do know they have no support for external gpus at

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least at this time HDMI a couple of usb 3 ports which

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normally i would gripe about but you've got Thunderbolt which is also a type c

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slash usb4 the nomenclature's getting really

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confusing there so you can break these out into a dongle

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or whatever the case may be a cooling vent as well as a headphone

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jack now apple to my knowledge has only really

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quoted performance per watt at least on the product page

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assuming a 10 watt TDP for the m1 chip but what we

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also know is that it could potentially be configured with a greater TDP

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and that's something we'd be more likely to see on a device that doesn't have to

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rely on a battery for power a lot for all i know they might just go

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with the same approach on all of them just to keep things from getting confusing

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of course there's a power button and before we even fire it up

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i kind of want to open it up you got that ifixit kit

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yeah just like apple apple likes ifixit kits too you guys see that

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ah the delicious irony of apple featuring ifixit in their promotional

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video launching the m1 processor i personally really enjoyed

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that wait before we do that maybe i should at least finish unboxing the thing so we got a

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power cable nice environmentally conscious packaging though all of this

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appears to be paper quite literally all

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of it that's fantastic this video is brought to you by private internet access

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pia is a vpn that allows you to access services and

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websites as though you were in a different country it encrypts all of

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your internet traffic and uses a safe protected ip and allows you to connect

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up to five devices at once with clients for Windows

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macOS that's right Android iOS and

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Linux buy a one year plan for 39.95 and get

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three months for free at the link in the video description

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appears to be some kind of cover for the

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wireless antenna ah that makes sense because the entire rest

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of this device is encased in metal your wi-fi won't

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work very well like that now will it are you excited to see the insides andy

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yeah please tell me this is just taped on sorry give me a sec here

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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

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clips and then it looks like they've given you enough slack

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almost yeah there you go to just put it aside

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and get access to the inside wow there is there is a whole heck of a

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not a lot in here wow got a little speaker right there

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got a little cmos battery right there so this is the power supply right over here

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cooling fan if apple was a pc manufacturer they would

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probably say oh wow look at all the space we've got in here we could put

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like a you know two and a half inch drive bay for expansion for all i know this thing

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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

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your own bespoke silicon you don't have to build in any legacy

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or unnecessary features that you're not planning to use

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in your devices so why would you have a SATA controller

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look at this the coolers like half of the internals

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if nothing else ladies and gentlemen can you respect the cable management i mean

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yeah it only has four cables or whatever but boy are they

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where are they managed now Anthony needs to do thermal testing

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in our full review of this thing which means that i unfortunately cannot

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pop the heatsink off of the soc as much as i would love

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to look at it but with everyone out there who got units

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early already covering this thing i'm sure you'll be able to find a picture of

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it if you really want to

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okay i guess i just voided the warranty probably

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well what did you think was gonna happen jono you gave me an ifixit kit and a mac

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mini you think the warranty was gonna be intact by the time i was done

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all right well that's it that's the

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whole darn main board as we talked about in our coverage of

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apple's launch event for their m1 max which i was not a fan of by the way

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anytime a company comes out and presents unlabeled graphs or vague

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comparisons against their competitors i find it a suspect and b just

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unnecessary if you're confident in your product just

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come out and give us the real goods i mean either way i've got it in my

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hands now so soon enough we're going to be able to run our own comparisons but

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as we discussed in that video there is not

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a whole lot to this no m.2

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expansion slot or even proprietary expansion slot

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uh no sodium slot that was something that we were a big fan of

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on the previous mac mini sorry i don't have a great angle for you of the back

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of the board there but you'll have to trust me there's no sodium slot that's

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another really funny thing i saw people kind of criticizing me

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for complaining about that they were like um lightest

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macbooks haven't had upgradeable memory in years

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right which is which is true but apple

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also launched a mac mini and the previous mac mini looked to us

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like it was a step in the right direction in terms of user upgradability

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it just had easily accessible sodium slots this one does not there's no expansion whatsoever

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and you're stuck with either eight gigs or 16 gigs of memory built right

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into the m1 soc of course one of the advantages of the m1

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is the fact that the dram is built right

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into the soc so the bad part of that is

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no future expansion no upgradeability nothing like that but the good part of

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it is that everything from the CPU GPU neural

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processor everything has direct access to that

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memory which as we've seen exploring AMD's

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what did they what's their stupid branding for that again smart access

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memory as we discussed when we tested smart access memory which allows an AMD Radeon

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CPU to have full access to a Radeon 6000 series

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gpus memory there can be significant

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performance gains we saw anywhere from low to mid single digit

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performance gains in games using that feature so

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depending on how this is laid out apple could have

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even more available bandwidth on its hands because if you look at something

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like a GPU it's connected using pci express 16x and

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even a gen 4 link is nothing compared to the type of memory

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interface you can build by putting a core right next to dram and linking them up

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directly of course we didn't see any performance improvement in

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productivity applications using smart access memory so as always

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it's going to come down to developer support as well as the specific

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architecture to determine what kind of performance improvement you're going to

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see now one of the things i've seen speculated about the m1 is that because

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it shares a lot of its heritage with apple's a series of

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mobile first socs and well that is to say i mean a

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macbook air is technically a mobile device but i think you guys know what i

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mean like iphones and ipads is that that could be

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part of the reason why io seems at least on first glance fairly

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limited because something like being able to have four Thunderbolt

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ports on an ipad is obviously a pretty low priority so it might have

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been a lot of work to bolt on and there might have been internal bottlenecks

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that you would have hit if you tried to actually daisy chain you know what is it six times 24 devices

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off the bloody thing of course my expectation was that this

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is a very first generation attempt at this and

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we're going to see big improvements down the line and i did predict that apple will

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abandon these first generation m1 series products

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relatively quickly which isn't to say though that i think that

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they're going to abandon it you know immediately like something like

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i mean what's an example of a product that got abandoned completely immediately

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remember that lenovo fab thing with like

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google project tango augmented reality

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okay that's a product that got really abandoned i think that this is just going to be

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apple's kind of abandoned so if you look at something like the software support

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of the ipad first gen versus the ipad 2 it's like not even

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close that's kind of my expectation here but i would love i would absolutely love

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to be proven wrong as for the performance as for the app compatibility

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i mean the embargo just lifted like a couple of hours before

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i filmed this thing we actually apple did a great job of delivering our system

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on time so at least credit to them for that so i'm going to be leaving that to

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Anthony to test on his own one of the big features here is of course is that

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you're not going to be able to run just ARM compatible versions of programs

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on this so photoshop is something that is notably missing a native app for the

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new m1 version max but also x86 compatible apps so you

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can run photoshop using rosetta 2 and

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also ipad and iphone

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apps so theoretically this could be like

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the device that kind of runs it all just

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it remains to be seen with what kind of performance and with what kind of

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compatibility it was kind of inevitable if you think about it though i mean it's

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not like apple's the first to say okay you know screw it screw x86 we're going ARM

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i mean amazon's doing it like

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it's already happening graviton chips man if i'm Intel and AMD

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i'm sort of wondering what my what my jam is going to be

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if x86 loses its dominance at this point have fun Anthony this one is going to be

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an adventure i think speaking of adventures

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