New M2 Base Mac Mini ($599) vs. M1 Mac Mini | Performance and Real-World Tests | Should You Upgrade?
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2023
- Been wondering how much faster the new M2 Mac Mini is vs the prior M1 Mac Mini? In this video, we'll take a deep dive with benchmarks and real world testing to determine whether or not this is a worthy upgrade or not.
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Great review thanks for sharing your findings.
Good tests sir.
Thank you for sharing this information.
The M2 Base Mac Mini with less than 1 TB of SSD, apparently performs close to the M1, but if you choose the 1TB version, you also get double the transfer speed from 3.000 mb/s to 6.000 mb/s, which is not stated on Apple's site. The reason for the increase of transfer speed is due to the fact that the 1TB version has 2 ssd chips compared to 1 on the below 1 TB.
I don’t think ANYONE who has the m1 base mac mini is upgrading to the m2 base mac mini.
I luv m1 mini
I almost considered it until the slower SSD issue was noted.
@@DeegoL9 Why? what were you hoping to gain in an upgrade?
I did consider it as deployed my base M1 mini as a server now. Have M1 Max MacBook but running it as a desktop in clamshell all the time not great for battery. Using Intel 2018 at my desk at the moment.
Very happy with my m1
Could you compare the m1 mac mini 512 8gb vs the m2 pro base model? Does the 512 ssd drive from the new one compare in read/write speeds to the older model? Thanks!
I do have one suggestion in your video you was talking about render times in video editing. okay great it renders a minute faster, but in video editing that's not the only important factor in video editing the biggest factor is timeline scrubbing how well does it scrub through the video when it is on the timeline that's the more important question 1st and then render is important.
This vid will help a lot of people.
I just upgraded from a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 to this Mac Mini M2 16gig variant and it feels great although I would not have the ability to add or remove storage/memory or GPU but despite all odds the mac mini feels a lot snappier than my behemoth cheese grater Mac Pro with a failing PSU.
Waiting for the Mac mini M2 Pro SOC test now! 😉
Haha sorry!! Gotta wait a little 😉 also got HomePod review coming up but i’ll push the M2 Pro video up the pipeline for you. Stay tuned! 😈
Is a bit unfair compare the integrated GPU vs a dedicated (some have the same size than the mini) btw the best thing at least for me is the M2 have a HDMI 4K 120HZ FINALLY... the performance is not a massive difference except in encoders and GPU.
I don’t think that the M2 base 256gb is a problem. Apple has not tried to do cost cutting in the traditional way. For any base model, a slight compromise is expected. That’s what makes it cheap. For 256gb storage, if apple used 2 X 128gb disks, they’d have to maintain stock of 128gb chips only for the base model which would drive up its price. Instead, using 1 X 256gb disk is cheaper because even for the 512gb model, they have to maintain the stock of the same disk. The quantity of the 256gb disks that apple buys must also be cheaper because of this, thus making the base model even cheaper. I prefer a $599 256gb model with 1 flash storage disk, to a $699 256gb model with 2 flash disks with faster storage.
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My M1 Mac Mini was driving me crazy. It was dropping the magic mouse and the network connection was always funky. Sold it and bought an M2 Mac Mini 16gb/512. Guess what happened? All the problems are gone. It's been a month. Worth it.
im looking to buy a mac mini, probably will go for the m1 since the performance delta isnt huge, the price is.
Is this mec only for gaming
what do you think MAC MINI M1 with 16 GB or Ram and 1 TB or M2 with 8 GB or Ram and 256 GB! Ps both are second hand almost the same price. thnx
I in a way upgraded. I had sold my base M1 Mac Mini when I was short on rent some months ago. I picked up the base M2 Mac Mini on education pricing for $499. Hell of a great deal in my opinion.
Is it significantly faster than base M1 Mac Mini? Thanks.
@@youtubeitisisntit7333 About 18% faster CPU and 35% faster GPU, but much slower SSD.
@@braillynn4903but do you really feel the slower ssd in real usage? I’m somewhat skeptical 😬
@georgealex19 I do, feels like downloads take longer than on my M1 Mac Mini. I'd say they take 30% longer.
To be honest it's not very good upgrade. Especially cause of the really lackluster SSD speeds. Definitely going to wait at least one or two generations before updating.
Do Mac mini support n work properly with 120 HZ refresh rate monitor
I am running 4K 160hz perfectly fine on Mac mini M1 (I am using thunderbolt to achieve this)
Well let's be honest, a slight performance improvement but an improvement nevertheless and at $100 lower price than M1... That's a pretty good deal in my book 👍
If I have well understood, you compare a Mac mini M1 with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD versus the based Mac mini M2 8GB 256GB?... Clearly, the Mac mini M2 outperforms the big M1!!
just a tip - real world test aint benchmarks - i would asmume its daliye use and feel inside programs/game/ ect , where benchmarks are static tests and Can be manilipiated by the bench designer and really dont give a clue on real wold preformance inside said program as you never know how that progam is implmenting mac os or metal or conversion from metal.
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I dont have a mac mini but I want one i will upgrade the ram to 16 gb, I do some multitasking school work, Edting and light grafic design. But I cant upgrade both the storage and the ram should I just go with the M1 then?
I would say for normal ssd speeds just find m1 16gb ram and any storage and then get free cloud storage.
The M1 8gb is still a beast, only in massive heavy uses maaaaybe you need the 16gb but for normal work, is in the 99% cases unnecesary.
@@FEGTTTSDH I mostly work on MS office, browsing and watching netflix etc. In this case shall I get M1 mac mini or M2 mac mini. In India, price difference is not much.
Hi, I work mostly on MS Office, email, watching movies online etc. In this case will you recommend m1 or m2 mac mini? Here in India price difference is not much between the two. Which one shall I prefer?
i can share my experience with m1 mac mini. I had originally bought the 8gb model but then returned it for 16gb model. now at that time excel, ms teams etc were not natively supported so that may be a factor with 8gb slowing down when a lot of apps (browser windows, outlook, MS teams, Excel) were open. with 16gb (256gb) everything was fine.
But now in 2023 all these apps have native apple silicon (M1, M2) support. So 8gb may be enough. but if you want to play safer, consider 16gb (or 24gb) although their pricing is crazy for ram upgrades.
I think, most likely base model is more than enough for most of the time.
@@youtubeitisisntit7333 Thank you for detailed answer. Today just checked my activity monitor in macbook mid 2013. It is using around 3.50 GB of 4 GB with two tabs open on safari, MS Word and texedit. Even when almost 7-8 apps were open it was using around 3.8 GB something. So, I think 8 GB will be enough.
@@sunildingankar8657 it will be more than enough. If I were you I would go for base model. It is really nice machine. Much faster than my MacBook Pro 13 inch with 16gb and 512gb. M2 (or even M1) is the way to go.
buy the M2 if theres no big price difference
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Not everyone who buys an Apple product buys it to video or image edit, if we wanted to do that we would get the MacBook Pro. Some of us use these smaller systems as an ACTUAL daily device to just surf the web, watch videos, buy online and maybe once in a while game. I wish every “Review” of these products wasn’t just focused on the video editors and their rendering time
Its an unfair comparison M1 16gb ram 1tb ssd vs M2 8gb ram 256 ssd, try same configuration and you will see the real difference.
Bro, Can you advise me? I am confused between the Mac mini M2 8 RAM and the Mac mini M1 16 RAM. I need it for ios application programming, which one will be the best option for me
"Note: Mac mini M1 16 RAM is cheeper than MAC mini M2 8 RAM in my country" ..
Please i need a clear recommendation Thanks in advance🙏🏻
I have the exact same question. I do think that the M1 16gb vs M2 8gb the M1 comes out on top, because of double the RAM.
Why in the world would you test a M1 1TB vs M2 256GB? It makes no sense. The prices would be drastically different. The M1 1TB, which only appears to come with 16GB of Memory, is $1150. The base M2 is $599, before any discounts. Your review is useless.
I every thing is good .I don't see any problem between this M1 and M2.
It's not worth an upgrade from M1. But if you're coming from an Intel chip the M2 is definitely the better option even with the slower SSD. I wouldn't buy the base model for working tho. The 16GB RAM upgrade is a must and it's still pretty cheap for such a powerful machine
I wouldn't say its cheap. Its not cheap by any means. 200$ upgrade for only 8 gigs of extra ram is not cheap in any scenario, especially since that translates into real world, for instance Europe, to almost 300$ upgrade for just 8 GB of ram. Even if you compare it to a similar priced PC, the only benefit you will see is the small factor, power usage and the fact that is a MAC.
@@helloukw its cheap. that 8gb upgrade is not identical to 8gb intel. Think of the base 8gb ram as the 12gb ram that you're used to and 16gb ram as 24gb ram that you're used to. Put that all in as a package, this is insanely cheap.
@@ZeerakImranlease reply
M2 mac mini 16/256
M2 mac mini 16/512
M2 mac mini 24/256+1tb external ssd
Which should i bui for extrem level Performance
Speaking as a photographer, who doesn't shoot in JPG, but in the more realistic and larger RAW files, your test of downloading a couple hundred jpgs is just not realistic. It would have meant more if you had to process and save a 2GB file with multiple layers to an SSD drive. That, to me, would have been valuable information.
You said "if you transfer large projects onto your SSD from an SD card or something you can expect you can expect the base model M2 Mac Mini to perform signifcantly slower than an M1 Mac Mini with an upgraged SSD". Not quite correct. No matter how fast the SSD in your computer is, it can only move data as fast as the SLOWEST part of the chain. Reading an SD card would be about 100MB/s while an external USB-C SSD would be 400-900MB/s depending on the drive and enclosure. Transferring files to/from an Mac Mini internal SSD with a theoretical benchmark speed of >1500MB/s won't be any faster unless your external drive is a Thunderbolt enclosure, and even those enclosures typically cap at 2500MB/s.
IMO, people waste so much money chasing theorectical benchmark speeds that are meaningless in real world applications.
nice
I need one
They’re GREAT computers for the price! Especially if you’re a student ($499)
Apple is the queen of diminishing returns.
GPU it’s worth it. CPU- nah
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