Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the all new Mac Mini now this is
not the base Mac Mini this is what I'm actually going to switch to to use for
most of my editing so this is a pretty highly configured version of it there in
space gray and it really could be called the Mac Mini Pro and this is going to be
replacing my macbook pro from 2017 as far as editing is concerned while I'm
actually editing sitting at a desk otherwise I'll use the macbook so let's
slide this open oh and before we do that the specs on this are not on the back of
it let me show you no because this is configured this is just the serial
number information because this is configured custom it's not anywhere on
the box so let's slide this open here and the last time there was a Mac Mini
I'll show you in a moment it was not this sort of configurable specs or
anything like this so here's the Mac Mini itself we'll talk more about what
it's got in it in a moment and here is a little bit of information with it so
you've got Mac Mini and this shows a display we've never seen before so
hopefully this is an apple display coming out at some point and they
finally come out with their own displays again we also have our Apple stickers
we'll put this away now in here we've got our power cord and
that's really all you get with a Mac Mini it's pretty simple now this
particular model let's put this away let's open this and then we'll put that
away let's take this off
and this particular model has some pretty highly configurable options looks
like there's a piece of paper on the outside there we are right here it
covers the ports there we go so let me put this away and then we'll talk about
what it costs and what it has now this is the 3.2 gigahertz six core eighth
generation Intel Core i7 turbo boosts up to 4.6 gigahertz
it's got 32 gigabytes of RAM it also has a one terabyte solid-state drive in it
and because it was $100 and not well it's still expensive it's kind of 10
Gigabit Ethernet Ethernet adapter in the back so here are all the ports and this
is really more of a pro machine than anything now it does not have a really
good discrete GPU but I'm going to be tethering it through thunderbolt to an e
GPU have been using an e GPU for a year now and it seems to be pretty stable at
this point now let's take a look at the ports themselves so let's go over what's
on the back so we've got our power button our power adapter and this is
just the adapter there's no external adapter anywhere we've got our 10
gigabit port our new vent for cooling and this is completely redesigned we've
got four Thunderbolt three ports so full speed ports with dual controllers we
also have an HDMI port and two USB type a ports also this has faster USB C up to
10 gigabits per second and then also a headphone or audio out so this really
has everything you need for a computer and then you plug it into your monitor
of choice and now supposedly it has a configurable RAM also but I opted for 32
gigabytes as I'm never probably going to use 64 on this and then I'm going to
plug it in to an e GPU now to can compare this to the previous generation
that wasn't updated for years this one is the exact same dimension just a
different color and you'll see the ports are a little bit different on the back
so the ports are a little bit older the USB a we don't have an SD card slot like
we used to and will I do with optical audio and we
don't have Thunderbolt 2 we now have Thunderbolt 3 so they're a little bit
different there but we still have a ton of ports and I think these will be
what's most important as far as that goes and that's really it everything
else is identical as far as the size so this is great for people that rackmount
these and servers like they showed at the Apple event and I know a lot of
people that were really excited about this to use for rendering there's places
that have hundreds of these actually and they just rackmount them or twenty or
thirty if you're doing video encoding and things like that they're little
workhorses especially now that we've gotten these newer processors in them so
should be pretty good Oh in the price of this is a little ridiculous this is
$25.99 so it's very expensive you could build a PC yes for less of
course but then you'd have to run Windows and I'd rather run Mac OS since
I prefer to use Final Cut Pro now initially I ran a Geekbench and you can
see here's the configuration and came back with some pretty impressive results
5662 for single core and multi core was twenty three thousand nine hundred and
seventy-three now after I ran that I ran a Cinebench without the e GPU so the e
GPU is attached but I told it not to use it and you'll see we came in at forty
six point one seven frames per second CPU was 1001 now if we move over to the
actual a GPU I told it to use that you can see right here and it came in at
sixty seven point nine four frames per second now it's going to be a little bit
slower than if it was directly connected to the motherboard but otherwise it's
plenty fast and of course you could put a Radian Vega in this as well and it
would bump that up even more so I think it's pretty impressed with benchmarks
for a little Mac Mini although hopefully it'll work well with that a GPU now
before we go I wanted to compare just the size for you since a lot of you
don't see these Mac's but here's the size this is an iPhone 10 R next to it
so you're getting a size idea of what the size of this is it's pretty small
it's not a very big Mac at all so that's why it's called Mac Mini but let me know
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