nice..... but iMac is still more worth it to buy than mini.

This post has been edited by westlife: Apr 21 2021, 09:16 AM

The iMac M1 with 8core CPU and 8 Core GPU with 16GB of RAM + Magic Keyboard with Touch ID costs RM6819 student price.

Mac Mini M1 with 8 Core CPU and 8 Core GPU with 16GB or RAM costs RM3599 + Magic Keyboard with Touch ID say estimate RM500 also around RM4100.
That leaves us RM2719 to buy a pretty decent monitor which can plug in multiple sources instead of tied to iMac only.

It depends on your needs. I think Mini is more flexible but 4.5K XDR display is very very nice

The display is awesome. Rm2719 may not be able to buy a monitor at the same grade.

Yes correct, but you lose some flexibility. Depends on each own needs. Some people might wan to go for better or better display but with iMac they are tied to 24".
really depends on the use case. but the new colours are damn nice...

but dun forget the facetime camera, mic and speakers are all studio standard, which mac mini does not even have built-in mic and the speakers seriously...

agreed that mac mini is a good option for one who just wants to step into apple ecosystem or already have existing keyboard, mouse and display.

i just bought an 2018 Intel mac mini to replace my macbook pro 2017 for daily usage also. becos i have been using my macbook pro 2017 like a desktop which it is on 24x7 and the battery kepts on bloated even after replacement becos it is plugged in to AC power all the time.

Yaya i also replaced my Windows Laptop with Mini M1 for light editing and daily use.
Initially wanted to wait for M1X chips on iMac. But now was glad I didn't wait. hehe

yeah. wanted to buy M1 mac mini for daily usage but too bad i still rely on windows quite a bit. so i ended bought a similar price refurbished i3 mac mini 2018. haha. for daily usage. no choice. dun want to spend so much on a brand new intel mac mini also. no point, intel chip is as good as trash. except that it can run bootcamp windows natively.

Ya I also cannot live without windows. Currently still using my old laptop. Parallels with Windows 10 Arm version is working quite well already with the latest update.
Now hopefully major windows apps can support ARM ASAP.

yes, once there are more arm-based windows app around, i will move to M1 Macs. haha.

Run a hypervisor host and remote into it!

parallel now support M1 so u can setup Windows VM

Does it support Windows 10 x86/x64 VM?

This post has been edited by ionStorm: May 3 2021, 04:26 PM

Totally different experience.

Not the same. It is an arm-based Technical previews and not the full license version. And it can only run arm-based windows applications which are very limited now too.
It cannot run x386 applications.

yeah...yeah...always forget m1 is arm.best is rdp into windows which is available

Unfortunately no, Parallels on M1 only support Win 10 ARM. Win 10 ARM can emulate x86 and x86-64 but Parallels on M1 doesn’t 32 bit so no x86.

Storage can upgrade or add on any additional NVMe? Thinking of getting one.

Internal cannot even though there's so much space inside. I use external thunderbolt 3 enclosure with NVME SSD. Posted about it here.
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry99759788
Mine macam slow a bit. I see on YouTube Samsung SSD 970 Evo Plus external much faster but Adata is cheap.

This post has been edited by soonwai: May 3 2021, 08:27 PM

Dun think that's going to happen anytime soon, so few ARM PCs, but Win 10 ARM x86-64 emulation is not bad. I use it on my M1 for 1) Mikrotik Winbox router configuration app and 2) Steam Windows only games.

Thanks, I use Samsung 980 Pro series nvme