Yes I bought a big piece of thermal pad and cut it to fit the heat sink .

your thermal pad must touch the case for heat to dissipation (put bottom and top). my ugreen enclosure only 47 Celcium running 24x7

yes, both hdmi and display port can carry digital sound channels

It turned out that the issue was due to incorrect nvme placement during installation. Silly me. It should be fixed in the middle of the screw slot and it does not touch the plate.

First, I stacked two thermal pads between the ssd and the MC40 case, temp drops to 40-43. This made me realized that the thermal pad was not in contact with the case all this while. After rewatch a few installation videos, I noticed that the ssd needs to be secured between the slotted screws. I reinstall again but this time using a single thermal pad, and the temp now ranges between 39-41 under normal load.

yes. nice thick cable

Thanks for your reply. Was planning of managing my cable and stuff... don't really like to plug the sound jack at the front. If hdmi can pass the audio signal, may be i can plug the audio jack to the monitor instead.

Already start selling. Price is reasonable too! Not in a rush to get yet. Wait review see if it's reliable since the PCB is not as thick as apple's.



This post has been edited by yvliew: Dec 31 2024, 04:24 PM

still got people use sound jack? i hate cabling. nowadays all bluetooth

Wait another 2-3 month only can get true result. The PCB is thick as apple original 1. Problem is original 1 maybe 15mm it has 10 layer, aftermarket same 15mm but only 4 layer...

not only that, performance as well. Doubt it is as fast as apple. Used to change SSD to another for MacBook pro. regret after changed as performance slow compare to original ssd

Performance seems fine on this video. But not as fast as Apple's 2TB internal because I think they are only using 2 nand chip. But can achieve 3000MB/s which is already faster than apple own internal 256GB ssd.

Performance same. But durability remain question they have done some read write test and temperature remain 55+- should be safe i think.

This post has been edited by shyan90's: Dec 31 2024, 08:53 PM

It's finally 1/1 but seems like Mac Mini M4 base specs no longer in stock!

hot selling cake....

Just to share, Machines do not have education price for M4 Mac Mini yet... so if we have to get it from Apple site or TRX for the edu pricing!

what u mean? apple.com won't run out of stock.

I think what he meant is ready stock in TRX

Yes, no more ready stock in apple TRX.

Also not available in Switch and Machine outlets except a few with limited units such as KLCC. However, reseller do not have EDU pricing for Mac Mini M4 yet

Why not just order online since it will just take few days to deliver? Just bought an Ipad Pro yesterday to replace my 7 years old unit, ordered online too becoz of the education pricing. Delivery expected within a week.

frankly speaking mac mini always no stock since early model. physical store don't keep many unit on this. Online is better option