Hi everyone, first video of 2021 welcome back to the channel it's the M1 Mac Mini
Let's get ahead and open it. Wait are you saying a knife isn't necessary.
So this is so this is the M1 Apple Mac mini I know I'm late to the party most people started getting
theirs about a month ago by the time I pre-ordered it was backordered at that time I was finishing up
my iPhone 12 coverage and then Christmas happened so I got my hands on it as quick as I could
but it doesn't really matter sure it's here now this is the base model in all aspects but rather
than 8 gigabytes of ram I have 16 gigabytes of ram Storage isn't really an issue for me
because it's going to be plugged in all the time so I'm just going to plug my SSD into it
all the time I mean I edit my videos off an SSD so that's not really an issue for me
but yeah the reason I spec'ed it out the way I did is because to be honest I call this a transition
Computer I don't really imagine myself using this long term for several years we all know
this year Apple is going to announce redesigned MacBook Pros and iMac and it's something to keep
me going until those come out and it's actually kind of a test to see if maybe I could be an iMac
user all my life I've used MacBook Pros and I've actually used a MacBook Air and a 12 inch MacBook
but I've always wanted to be an iMac user however I always really wanted portability
however since the world has changed for the first time I can see myself as a desktop user.
This is so nice I just love opening up Apple products I'm not going to even apologise for it
it's always just fun so here we are.
This is the Mac mini looks good looks like a really large Apple TV so this is it here in all
of it's glory this is nice this is going to sit on my desk really well it's nice not too heavy it's
sort of a portable Mac if I had a little Computer Monitor I could put into a suitcase I could just
travel with this and that but I'm pretty sure at that point you could get yourself a MacBook right
this is the Mac Mini lets see what else is inside the box we just have our information pantalets
welcome to your Mac mini yes I will connect your cheapest Mac to a 6000 Euro Apple Display
that's exactly how I intend to use this oh look they just give you one super sized Apple sticker
I'm going to stick this on a Car don't stick it on your Car it's tacky we got the power cord here
these are like the same ones they use on the Apple TV and their also the same ones I think
that Microsoft used on their Xbox One so this is the Mac mini in all of it's glory I love Silver by
the way I bought a Space Grey MacBook over 2 years ago I have the 2018 MacBook Pro I'm upgrading from
to this and I hated the space grey it got dirty quite often compared to silver I've had silver
Macs for all time before space grey so I'm really happy to go back to Silver I love to see Gold I
have a gold iPhone I'd love a gold Mac to go with a gold iPad I actually like gold quite a bit maybe
it just isn't professional enough for some people so this is just your warranty label yes come off
does anyone else like do the challenge of trying to not destroy
this or am I just nuts - I'm just nuts So lets go ahead and this tear off
So in terms of ports we got power, ethernet we got USB 4 which are basically the same as Thunder Bolt
3 it's just a proper USB 4 standard that's open we got a HDMI which I love to see and I got 2
USB A and a headphone jack so even though we only have 2 USB C's we also have USB A so as long as I
throw in my consistent peripherals in USB A I can still use USB C ports because I've actually
transitioned most of my devices to USBC because most situations you just buy a new wire off Amazon
for 5 or 6 euros it's not expensive to make a device USB C and you only have so many devices
that have the same sort of wire as I said before I'm upgrading from a 2018 MacBook Pro 15 inch it
was a really expensive computer it was super expensive it had 32 gigabytes of ram 6 core it
was high end at the time and It's by the far until the now the fastest Mac I ever had but I was never
like 100 percent happy and not just because of the butterfly keyboard the butterfly keyboard didn't
mind me that much long term now it's annoying there's an issue with the R key that every now and
then it keeps double pressing there's something about the experience of it that I didn't love
as context before my 2018 MacBook Pro I had a 2012 MacBook Pro the first Retina one and I basically
kept that for 6 years I mean that was how good a Computer it was it got slow towards the end
compared to new Computers but it was just such a good machine overall like it felt it was worth
keeping where as with the MacBook Pro I have I only had it just for over 2 years now and I've
just moved on to the Mac mini I'll be moving from this to whatever Apple releases down the line
in fact why I am here just talking about lets go to my room and set this up properly. Come on.
This is my current setup and what I used to have obviously was the MacBook Pro under the
desk connected with a USB C cable it had power it did video output 1 cable it was really great
so why I'm basically thinking for now is that I put the Mac mini under here where the MacBook
Pro used to be I'll connect it again via USB C for the video and obviously the power code
USB C unfortunately will not power the Mac mini but lets go ahead and plug everything this is
the USB C cable this obviously goes into the USB C port like so and I'll put in the power cable.
And then into the Mac mini we go we got a light and the monitor has just turned on
so somethings happening. I forgot the Mac mini has a power button. The Mac mini has a speaker
built in also I'm definitely looking to get a new monitor as you can see there is some
edge bleeding I've had this for about over 2 years now. ANOTHER LANGUAGE SPOKEN. Hmmm.
Lets just see lets see if this wireless mouse works it doesn't even have a charge, NOOO I
got this old wired mouse this is actually a really nice keyboard but it's just a pity that I need
like multiple devices at once I have multiple computers so I have to turn it off
from the MacBook first oh wait don't you have to connect them by a wire first because that's how it
pairs. To use English as the main language press the return the key we have a keyboard we have a
mouse as you can see I'm sure Apple would not like their marketing to see this setup with just this
janky keyboard and mouse combo I've cobbled together. I do not want to migration assistant
I'm actually going to do another video about me putting programs and files onto my Mac from
my old MacBook and we're going to do a Marie Condo I'm going to talk you through my thought
process about the new Apps I want to install on my Mac and what I'm going to leave behind as I
start a new workflow with this Computer because obviously with the Apple Silicon
and the new Big Sur software I want to explore what my options are in every faucet not just my
video editing programs even just productivity apps and everything else so do stay tuned for
that video so subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell to stay tuned for that
but for now we're just going to press not now this is so smooth though like that's the first
thing I'm noticing just the setup process the animations were just so fluid. So quiet like
it's so silent that's the first thing. It feels really nice it's metal it's smooth but the corners
are quite sharp and precise that's something I'm noticing about the design of the Mac mini.
And now we just wait for iCloud to setup. I've been watching a lot of Schitts Creek
so I feel like every time I talk I talk like Moira Rose. What am I going to do for Lunch? Light,
Dark or Auto you know what I'm going to go for Light because I'm done with Dark colours for a
little bit but I am inevitably going to back to dark mode later on but we'll go with light
mode for now but as I said before I'm done with space grey, I'm done with things that are dark
we'll just go with this as you can see we're back on the Mac screen we are all setup
and I think we are ready to go I just want to test a few things I'm super excited to use this.
So this is the Computer oh wow this is fast oh wow two tabs opened up Apple was like we're
going to give you two safari tabs to show you how fast this is oh yeah oh yeah mmhmm
all open up this is smooth. Chuckles* I can rent Wonder Woman 1984 it's a little late for that I
already saw the film but that's cool. Lets see we have here in about this Mac Apple Mac mini M1 2020
M1 16 gigabytes of memory we got the display we have the storage. I think we're pretty much
good to go. Oh, I got my first request to install Rosetta this is the app to run Intel programs
because Monitor Control hasn't been updated yet. Unfortunately Monitor Control does not work.
Hi everyone I just wanted to pop on to give a quick update as you can see here I am using the
Mac mini editing the video you're watching right now it's really fast it's much cooler than I
would have expected like it just feels kinda Luke warmish at it's most intense tasks in
terms of performance I was editing a video for a client and it actually did struggle with more
of the 3D graphics based stuff it really seems when it's working with H264 or H265 it's fine
but when you're using for example 3D text in Final Cut Pro I'm still noticing that it has like
it hasn't been an instant performance boost you still need to render stuff like that out.
So this is the current Mac mini I'm currently using although I will probably have it setup
different by my review. This is my USB C hub in the first USB C port I got this in the 2nd
USB C port I actually changed the monitor to HDMI because there was colour calibration issues with
USB C it'll show you completely the wrong colours everything will look washed out I went online it
seems specific with the LG monitors I don't know why but on USB C and Apple M1 chip they do not
seem to be working well together. I read people having issues on Mac mini, MacBook Air, MacBook
Pro so do beware but thankfully I did connect with HDMI and it's working great and then in one of the
two USB A ports I think it's over here I just put in my Logitech unifying receiver which I am using
the Logitech Keyboard and Logitech Mouse which is very trusty as you can see I used up most of the
ports left I have one USB A left which is perfect for a thumb drive or another hard drive because
sometimes I can be working with two different hard drives externally. I'm going to leave it off here
for now and finish setting up the Mac do stay tuned for my next video which will be me showing
you what I install on the Mac and different files I transferred over from my old Laptop and stuff I
Didn't transfer over I think that's going to be more interesting I'm going to Marie Condo my Mac
setup and of course the Mac mini review which I'll of course review so do subscribe to the channel
and hit the notification bell to stay tuned for those videos and if you liked the video do give it
a thumbs up and if you plan on getting a Mac mini M1 or if you have any questions about it or my
setup or anything else I've shown in the video do drop a comment below but other than that I
hope you guys are staying safe and well welcome to 2021 and I'll see you all in my next video. Bye.