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The original was posted on /r/sffpc by /u/BK_317 on 2024-10-29 22:35:37+00:00.
Yeah yeah yeah,i know how expensive apple products are and not everyone likes the apple ecosystem but this product really caught my attention (as it should! same for this sff community too!)
Apple ever since the release of the earlier mac mini and mac studio a couple years ago have been producing some stellar pcs for their ecosystem at such small sizes! This new mac mini looks to be about 1.2L in total volume(just did some paper math,oh and don't forget that there is no external brick here) and for the amount of power the cpu packs this is quite astonishing.
The single core perfomance of the highest variant having m4 pro benches upto an i9 14900K(yes,really) that's insane,no? I remember seeing in the apple subreddit on people being confused on why put these ultra efficient and powerful chips to waste by cramming them in a 1 inch thick ipad and now we have this.
The closest so called "mini" offerings i have seen so far of this size are those from minisforum,beelink etc and are definitely weaker than the lowest variant of this mac mini(not in gaming though) and not to mention the pricing for the first seems kinda fair to me with the base variant at $599.
It's such a shame that the os is the only thing which is holding these chips back,ever since m1s launch all their soc's perfomance combined with their utra efficiency have always amazed me with m4 being no exception.
I do wonder if amd's plan with the new halo ryzen apus is to go after these mini pcs by apple...hmmm but anyway what do you guys think? are you interested in buying these?
