What is going on, everybody?
It is Mike, welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV.
Exciting day because we are unboxing the new Mac Mini with
the M1 chip.
This is the 8-core CPU GPU.
This has got 16 gigs of unified memory as well as one terabyte
of on-board fast storage
Superexcited.
Let's get to the unboxing and we'll talk about this as
we do
so.
Just to level set, the system on a chip that's in the M1,
the Mac Mini, the Mac Pro, the MacBook Air.
It's the same one.
It's the same chipset that's in all three of them.
It does allow you to go ahead and integrate, you know,
the CPU, the GPU, the system memory, the RAM,
the T2 security controller, and put those things simply put
right next to each other so there's very little distance
that they need to go ahead and try to jump over, separate IO
to go and communicate with one another.
And information is very simply a communication between
these different components.
Instead of being copied over from, say, the CPU and the
GPU to the RAM, that is the benefit there.
So when you have this very tightly knit,
highly coupled system, things work more efficiently.
You're able to go ahead and hit higher performance values for
longer periods of time without impacting the performance
of the machine.
And that's the benefit they're.
OK, this is the very simple let's see what's in the
box first
we have
wow, that is a really, really Big Apple sticker.
Holy cow, that's huge.
Gigantic.
I like how they show this being hooked up to a six thousand
dollar XDR Mörner That's just quite comical.
All right.
Outside of this huge sticker inside of the MacBook Mini or
the Mac Mini, we have the typical power cable.
We saw that.
Let's.
And let's unwrap this bad boy.
Well, that's such a great sound,
new product unboxing sound.
So here you see, this is completely flat, where there
used to be two thumb holes or two scrolls to stick your hands
in and turn this, this is completely sealed.
You can not open this anymore.
The front looks the same.
Let's take a look at the back
and let's go and remove the back.
All right, so here in the back, we have passport,
we have the one gig Ethernet, we have to thunderbolt course.
Kind of a big disappointment to me because my MacBook Pro that
I have today, 2019, if I'm not mistaken, MacBook Pro has
four Thunderbolt ports.
We have one HDMI, two point one port and two USB ports that
are on here.
These are five gigs for you, ISBA.
These are ten gigs of using USB, AC or 40 gigs if
using you are sorry Thunderbolt for now.
Next, let's go ahead and connect it to my computer and
power powering up.
Now what I can tell you from the initial testing I'm done.
I am very surprised and pleasantly surprised,
to say the least.
I am able to import export videos using I
use existing projects.
I had a 250 gig project in Final Cut and I was able to go
ahead and export it in three minutes and ten seconds
compared to eight minutes using just my MacBook Pro.
Now when I add my GPU, which this is a black
magic pro, which is the fifty 56 hours of sorry, mega fifty
six that takes the export times down from eight minutes down
to six minutes.
Still, I'm at 200 percent increase in efficiency,
which is really no small thing to sneeze at when you think
about how much the MacBook Pro costs.
You know, I bought this in twenty nineteen.
Like I said, it was about four grand for the I9 with the Veiga
twenty internal GPU.
I spent another twelve hundred on the GPU so that's fifty two
hundred right there.
This machine cost me a thousand dollars.
So it's one fifth the price for double the performance in
certain use cases.
Now I'm certainly not saying that it's going to you know,
ever use case is going to function that way, like I won't
get that type of increase on every use case that I
come across, but I might use cases.
I could tell you that it is significant.
Now, I have a ton of other testing planned for
this machine, but I really want to know from you what test
cases or what use cases do you want me to go ahead and run?
I have a battery of things that I want to go and run, but now
there's certainly use cases that might be unique to you,
the individual.
And I love to know what those are in the comments below.
Now I am Mike.
This is Tech 24/7 TV.
I'm glad that you came by today.
I'll see you in the next video.