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IStat Menus tells me I have comfortably 50% RAM or more in reserve on a daily basis, and that’s while running pretty much every app I use, from Final Cut Pro to Photoshop, Word, Slack, Teams and Discord (plus several others).
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I chose the 16GB version of the M1 Mac mini because I wanted a machine with plenty of headroom. Sure, 8GB vs 16GB is now a very different topic of conversant in M1 Land, but there’s still an awful lot to be said for buying as much RAM as you can afford. It genuinely fascinates me, but I’m also realistic, and can’t quite prise myself away from the old way of thinking just yet. I’ve already provided my thoughts on the M1 RAM debate. What’s more, if you run a business, it’ll offer a measurable return on your investment incredibly quickly. If your workload includes some form of heavy duty, processor-intensive task, this computer will impress you. I have lots more testing to do with the mini, but the word ‘effortless’ really is the most appropriate when describing the way it performs on a day-to-day basis. Regardless, my previous test between the 16” MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air tells its own story in that regard. I’m also yet to properly test the rendering or export times between the two computers, but the M1 Mac mini doesn’t feel sluggish with either task. Very occasionally, I’ll experience a couple of dropped frames while editing, but it’s not enough to slow me down or frustrate. But along comes a computer that’s over £2,000 cheaper – and it feels identical during a 4K video edit. This is a task for which I specced up my 16” MacBook Pro, and it has served me handsomely in that regard. There’s just barely any waiting for anything to happen, and even non-native, Rosetta 2 apps simply breeze through any task you throw at them.īut, for me, where the M1 Mac mini really shines, is video editing. In day-to-day use, the mini is arguably ‘snappier’, as many have pointed out when describing these M1 machines. I can barely distinguish the performance of the M1 Mac mini from that of the 16” MacBook Pro. Here’s why, if your finger is hovering over the ‘checkout’ button on an M1 Mac mini, you should go ahead and spend that money. Only, the M1 Mac mini is a better computer than the 16” MacBook Pro (and I’ve only had it two weeks). Why on earth would you ditch the aforementioned laptop for something like that? An 8-core processor with a publicly-hidden clock speed, integrated graphics and ‘just’ 16GB of RAM. The M1 Mac mini, by comparison, is anything but. It packs 32GB RAM, an 8-core processor, the best graphics card you could buy at the time, and 1TB of internal storage (I know you can go higher). My 16” MacBook Pro cost over £3,500 and was specced up to the hilt. Now, if we head back a few years, this sounds absolutely daft. I recently revealed that I was switching from a 16” MacBook Pro to an M1 Mac mini.