Means you need another mac. From past reviews of the mac studio, some swapping higher capacity to the mac studio and it refused to restore as well. Not sure if that has changed.

So it’s doable but it’s not simple or you can even easily get the nand chip or the module. With mac mini launching and would definitely sell more. Hopefully these memory module will be made more and cheaper. This will make repairability easier since the SSD has finite of writes and with memory swapping, it would wear out faster as well.

Ram is soldered as it's unified ram shared with gpu and cpu.

This seems like a good solution too. Buy a fast thunderbolt 3/4 ssd, combine it with internal storage to expand it.

it seems can even boot off the ssd when install macOS on it.. maybe I missed somehing?

Some apps have data that is stored on macOS system data right? Even you move the app to external ssd, the app data still store inside internal storage.

I run apps like Draw Things, even move the app to external, but the data still hides inside built in, same as ollama also. If can move those data to external, then would be good.

If you are running MacOS on external ssd, doesn't everything stores in external SSD?

Anyone got 3D printer can print this. Looks super cute! I will ask my friend to help print this in the future.

Mac Mini Mac Pro enclosure

M4 vs M4 Pro

M4 ssd is again slower a lot.

Successfully upgraded the nand chip from 256gb to 1TB.

Now just waiting when launch in Malaysia...

Base M4. Not bad at all I would say.




I am watching this guy live streaming testing games on m4 base mac mini as well now. Seen a lot of games are performing quite well even it's running parallels


Cute mac pro mini



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I upgraded m1 to m2. Don’t feel much difference but since can get edu price and selling price also not bad then upgrade. I think m2 to m4 also quite significant upgrade especially the 16GB because I wanna run LLM model. M2 8GB can only run 8b parameter model.

Wanna ask, to claim from tax refund for 2024, we must buy computer stuff in this year 2024? what if Jan 2025? cannot liao?

Man I hope this mac mini comes in time before 2025.

Hopefully will launch by Dec.

iPad mini launched 23 oct in US, sirim approved 31st Oct. Here start selling I think around 6th Nov. Yeah about 2 weeks. Hopefully it's faster now because we have Apple Store in Malaysia. iPhone was first wave as well.

Let's see around 1 week after launched if we will see mac mini sirim approved or not.

I thought edu they only allow 1 mac per year? Also 1 ipad per year

no? Not enforced? I have unidays verified anyway. But I tried putting 2 same item in 1 order. seems ok. only didnt go through payment. if safe to order 2 will order it when mac mini launched.

I’m sure you can trade in at Apple store TRX.

No wonder I check trade in list of switch and don’t have mac mini.

This is somewhat a bad news if anyone was thinking if mac mini will sell more and we can get higher demand for the storage module to get the price down, nop. There's 2 different design and non interchangeable.