[2024] Mac Mini with M4 / M4 Pro
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 Apr 15 2025, 08:40 PM
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First time Mac owner here. Was torn between the normal m4, 32GB ram, 1TB storage and the m4 pro, 24GB ram, 1TB models.
Went with the latter and but now 2nd guessing if I should have gone for m4/32GB instead of m4pro/24GB. |
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Apr 15 2025, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE(shyan90's @ Apr 15 2025, 09:32 PM) If budget allows, get m4pro + 24gb would be enough. Pair with 512GB ssd is more than enough. Instead go for 1tb storage, go buy 40gbps ssd enclosure + 2TB ssd. (Much more cheaper go with 1TB apple ssd.) I am a 1TB 'drive c' kinda guy so went with 1TB SSD with 24GB ram and m4 pro. OK la, stretched my budget a bit Mac can run the application on external drive but that application cant use Apple Intelligent only.   |
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Apr 29 2025, 12:18 AM
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Returned my mac mini m4 pro with 24gb ram + 1tb storage and went for the m4 pro with 48gb ram + 512gb storage instead. Figured I can always add storage via the thunderbolt 5 ports (tested with my 1tb nvme in a tb4 enclosure, it was pretty fast) but can never upgrade the ram myself.
Am using the computer headless, NoMachine + TailScale working superbly This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Apr 29 2025, 12:19 AM |
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Apr 29 2025, 09:34 AM
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QUOTE(farkingdom @ Apr 29 2025, 08:52 AM) Woah and here I am just with a base Mac Mini M4 hahaha How do you like your Mac mini?Needed to up my budget to get 1 powerful Mac to retire my 3 computers at home (dell optiplex 3060, 5060 and 7060). All in one device to be my new personal computer, media server, and vm hypervisor. This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Apr 29 2025, 09:35 AM |
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Apr 29 2025, 11:38 AM
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QUOTE(shyan90's @ Apr 29 2025, 11:21 AM) With the price you spend...why dont just get Mac Studio... More than 11k for unit with 48gb ram. Traded in my iPhone 13 Pro Max for 18xx and the mac mini came under 7k.This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Apr 29 2025, 11:42 AM |
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Apr 29 2025, 12:13 PM
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QUOTE(shyan90's @ Apr 29 2025, 12:06 PM) cause base spec mac studio is 36gb ram..how many vm u running btw? My 3 old PCs had 48GB of total ram so i aimed for that. |
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Apr 29 2025, 07:17 PM
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QUOTE(kmrdeva @ Apr 29 2025, 11:38 AM) More than 11k for unit with 48gb ram. Traded in my iPhone 13 Pro Max for 18xx and the mac mini came under 7k. Correction. The Mac mini was 5.9k after trading in my old iphone. |
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Apr 29 2025, 08:22 PM
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QUOTE(farkingdom @ Apr 29 2025, 07:46 PM) Yeah it’s a mini power house worth the bang of the buck. I did consider the M4 Pro due to larger RAM and storage, but my usage probably wouldn’t reach that level, so I just save some money and got the base model instead. I think my use case can also be met with the M4, but was too tempted by the higher memory bandwidth (more than double?) of the M4 Pro.Was hoping to upgrade the internal SSD in the future once the warranty expires. Hopefully by then the SSD market for Mac mini is more matured. |
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