once its available in AAR physical store however you can purchase with edu discount and with installment options

You meant everyone can get edu discount regardless of their qualification?

if you have a valid unidays account, you can show your QR code (https://www.myunidays.com/MY/ms-MY/id) to them to get an edu discount

From what I know you just need .edu email from local uni/school to register

Jeng jeng jeng!! It's coming soon boysssss. Ready your wallet!

This is the M4 Pro model. Hoping to see other models approved tomorrow. This is normal as M2 Mac mini also got 2 dates for other models, 1 day after another.

2 iMac already approved by sirim. Tomorrow wait them tabao breakfast first. makan dulu.. maybe by afternoon will update. Lol



example of last year Mac mini



This post has been edited by yvliew: Nov 14 2024, 06:54 PM

Wow. Nice!
May I know which route will get you the device quicker? The Apple store online OR tru the resellers? I'm from Penang so these are my only options.

This post has been edited by muman7: Nov 14 2024, 09:02 PM

Good news

end of this month hopefully

next week most likely, 7 days

still relax minum makan.. its friday perhaps. no time to put any real work. so far still just 1 M4 Pro model approved. Maybe need to wait til Monday then. As usual the way civil servant work. relax first. work comes last.

They added 2 Macbook Pro models instead,

This post has been edited by yvliew: Nov 15 2024, 06:17 PM

Already approved la. It's on SIRIM. A3239 (M4 Pro Mini).

We do have 2 models though. M4 and M4 Pro. Both are different Model number.

Dont so gan jeong...haha..my wild guess next week Mon/Tuesday Approve, agak Friday on sales. Before dec can get already.

i doubt so. SG now delay delivery till 9- 16 dec. So MY unit, should be same time or later
You can order online but delivery highly push back due to high demand. Quite impossible for them to priority order from MY

This post has been edited by ericlaiys: Nov 16 2024, 07:04 AM

Trx also dont accept trade in for mac mini and iMac. according to them, these devices can only trade in from online. initially thought want to trade in and get gift card but after checked their system mentioning cannot.
well at least now i know the process and do it when online available

This Mac Mini M4 probably even the cheapest Windows based arm system at the moment (if you install windows on it of course)

I've seen the Thinkpad and Asus offerings running the snapdragon X Elite/Plus, and they are all above RM6000-RM10000. I've not even seen desktop base windows arm systems yet in the market.

My question is do you know any windows offerings that can match the cost/value of the Mac Mini M4 at this moment?

This post has been edited by jonthebaptist: Nov 16 2024, 03:49 PM

It’s hard to match this M4 Mac mini cost to performance value. For 2.5k you get the fastest single core cpu in the market. Edu is 2k. You can’t built any pc with such performance.

I don’t believe X Elite is targeting desktops. It’s specifically designed for mobile devices. And since it’s not significantly cheaper either, I think it’s more practical to build a desktop PC with better software support. I believe X Elite faces competition from Apple, AMD, and Intel. AMD’s new mobile chip efficiency is already quite impressive, and I don’t see any reason why people would choose ARM over X86 if battery life is comparable.

The M4 chip in the Mac Mini M4 was also designed for mobile (iPhone/iPad) which later came to the Mac and MacBooks.

It's only a matter of time until you see ARM bases desktop PCs too (probably running snapdragon).

Anyways you're right cost to performance is amazing here, it leads me to believe Apple is trying to corner the desktop market from the old Wintel Era (windows/Intel).

Apple has a distinct advantage over other companies. They designed their own chip and operating system, which means their silicon is optimized for their devices. The Windows PC market is incredibly vast for desktops, and it’s unlikely that Qualcomm would create a chip to support AMD or Nvidia GPUs. So far, I don’t see any reason why they would enter the desktop market. Their pricing strategy is also quite discouraging for potential adopters of ARM devices.

Just like iphone...HW SW all bao ka liao....Nothing beats them unless the build quality.