hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
this is the brand new 2020 mac mini with
apple's new
m1 chip in it this is apple's own
dedicated chip the same as they have in
the
the macbook air and also the new macbook
pro 13-inch
and so this starts at 6.99 that will get
you there m1 with the 8 core cpu 8 core
gpu and a 16 core
neural engine with 8 gigs of ram and 256
gigabytes of storage you can
max it out which this is the top of the
line for sixteen hundred and ninety nine
dollars that gives you the same chip
but also gives you sixteen gigs of ram
and two terabytes of storage
now let's go ahead and open it up but
before we do that here's one quick thing
this is the last generation mac mini in
the box is slightly smaller
i didn't see anyone else point that out
so it's a little bit different here
it's a little bit smaller and let's go
ahead and open up the new one
so i've got my unboxing knife here
now let me go ahead and open this up
here
there we go
we'll take the wrapper off and let's
open the box
so slide it open like this
and the last generation actually slid
out so it's a different box too
there we go and here's the mac mini now
last time the mac mini came in space
gray also now i think it's only silver
at this point
so let's set the mac mini aside let's
see what's inside the box so we have
some paperwork here
and it's a mac mini little paperwork
this will run
a 6k pro display xdr it goes over the
ports and it has a giant silver apple
sticker in it so this is a huge apple
sticker similar to that of the mac
pro that has the black apple silver or
black apple sticker in it rather so
let's go ahead and
set that aside and then we just have a
cable
it's not braided or anything it's got
some dust on it too but it's just a
normal cable
and it goes to a plug it doesn't have a
ground on it or anything
so let's go ahead and set this aside and
take a closer look at the mac mini
and last year we had the same thing
let's take this piece off the back here
that covers the ports keeps them
protected
and on the bottom we don't have anything
out of the ordinary so it says mac mini
then there's nothing around the outside
on the front we have a little spot where
there could be a little light to
indicate that it's on
and then on the back we have a few
different things we have our power
connection here so there's no external
power supply
we have our ethernet adapter and there's
no 10 gig ethernet this time
we have our vent for our cooling port
here we have two thunderbolt 3
usb 4 ports 1 hdmi
2 usb a and then also a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack so this is a little bit
different than last time
and to show you what i mean here is last
generations
space gray version so you can see here
together the frame itself is very
similar
but you can see we're lacking
thunderbolt ports a 10 gig
option and that's about it so it's very
similar other than
two missing thunderbolt ports and 10
gigabit ethernet
so the older one feels much heavier to
me as well
so as far as the hardware there's not
much more to talk about it plugs into
the wall
will plug into a display and so i'll set
this up
and we'll take a look at what it can do
as far as benchmarks now let's go ahead
and plug in the mac mini to power
then we'll plug it into thunderbolt 3
for the pro display xdr
6k and then we'll turn it on
now that it's booted up you can see the
specs it's the 16 gigabyte version of
the mac mini
and it's got 2 terabytes of storage and
now i've installed some benchmarking
apps
and as you can see with the display i
have it scaled so you can see it a
little bit better
but let's go ahead and go into geekbench
5 so we can run
a geekbench test so here is the device
you can see 16 gigs of ram
we'll run a cpu test first and we'll
wait for this to finish
now the first geekbench scores have
completed we scored 1754 for single core
7730 for multicore if we take a look at
single core
this puts us above pretty much every mac
apple makes for single core so
you'll see the top one listed here is a
27 inch mid 2028 core
imac that is not even close now for
multi-core you can see
the score puts us right in between a 16
inch macbook pro and an imac
27 inch from 2020 so that's pretty
impressive for a mac mini
so let's go ahead and take a look at a
couple other scores here
let's go to the compute score you'll see
opencl and apple m1 will run the compute
benchmark
now the compute benchmark is finished
it's 19678.
if we go to a comparison well it's not
showing us anything here but
if you compare that to other devices
that's quite high
so it's not the highest we've seen but
it's very high for
something like a mac mini for example
now let's go ahead and
close geekbench let me make sure we're
closed out of that
and let's go into cinebench so we'll
open cinebench
this is the first time it's been opened
on this mac mini
cinebench r30 or r23 rather we'll go
ahead and hit accept
and then we'll run the cpu multi-core
test
we'll click start wait for it to begin
there we go and it will take 10 minutes
to complete
now cinebench has finished for
multi-core it scored 7723
that puts it in between 212 core
xeon cpus from mac pros basically so
it's faster than a core i7 but slower
than an i9 or a ryzen 7. so it's still
pretty fast
let's take a look at the single core cpu
now i let cinebench run for about 12
minutes
and in the single core it places above
a core i7 and below another core i7
the 2.81 gigahertz it says that the new
cpu is three gigahertz
and it did not give me a score but the
interesting thing to know
is that the mac mini is not warm even at
all all you feel is the cool aluminum
now previously when using a mac mini it
would be hot all the time when you
weren't doing anything so this is pretty
impressive
now if we go into blackmagic disk speed
test
let's take a look at how fast it is and
so we'll set this to
one gigabyte and we'll click start
and you can see we're hitting 3773
megabytes per second read or write speed
and 2700 megabytes per second
read speed so that's pretty incredible
almost 4 000 megabytes per second for
right
and almost 3 000 for read usually it's
the other way around but
that's incredible how high that is so
that's pretty impressive
and let's go ahead and close that out
we'll exit that
and i've had a lot of people ask me
about will microsoft word run for
example
and word runs just fine you'll see how
fast it was i didn't have to do anything
special it just ran
and then if we open maybe one of these
default templates we'll wait for it to
open
and there you go we're in read only i
don't generally use word
but it runs nice and fast there's no
issues whatsoever
you can go to the app store and install
whatever app you'd like excel for
example
we'll hit get install we'll wait for it
to install and then i'll open it
live so you can see what the actual
result is as far as opening it the first
time
let's go to launchpad we'll open
microsoft excel
i already have word open this is the
first time i'm opening it
so you can see it's asking if i have a
subscription i'll just skip to read only
mode
and continue and we're in you'll see how
fast it is it opens up nice and quick
maybe if we want a new document there's
a new one so you'll see it's nice and
fast
now i have not used very complicated
templates for example
anything with tons of information on it
but you get the idea how fast everything
performs it seems to be performing just
fine and we're running a 6k
display so let me close out of that let
me close out of word
and quite a few of you want to know if
this will run android studio now i have
not opened this either we'll go ahead
and open it up
all i did was drag the app over after
downloading it you'll see do you are you
sure you want to open it i'll click
open and let's see if it runs
it says do not import settings where you
can import them i'll click ok
and you'll see it's opening android
studio
and we'll wait for it to run
and we'll hit next standard install
next and finish we'll wait for this to
finish and see if it works properly
it's completed installation i'll hit
finish and we can create a new project
and you'll see it's loading let's load a
template here for google maps activity
we'll click finish and see what it does
so you'll see it's loading and now i
have not used this before but this gives
you an idea of
what it's like to use it does not seem
like it's super fast
but it is usable i suppose so we'll wait
for it
there we go it's loading the project
and there we go so we can scroll through
the project here it still says loading
in the upper left
we can go to
assistant we'll go back and forth so
this gives you an idea of
if it's use usable it says indexing down
here at the bottom
we'll wait for it to finish indexing to
see if it's fast after that
like i said i don't know what's normal
for this as i haven't used this before
but this gives you a general idea of
what it's like to use
so there's some code here's the
structure
and here's the build variables or
variants rather
it says nothing to show if we add a
configuration it brings open templates
we can do an android app and we'll hit
ok so this gives you a general idea of
what it's like to use
i can scroll through here fairly quickly
and now that everything's loaded
i think it'll be okay let me go ahead
and close this
and so we'll go ahead and hit exit
now i'll open two more apps quite a few
people want to know can you edit video
on this
and the answer is yes but let's see how
fast in a moment and we'll open
pixelmator pro which was updated for the
m1 today
and maybe i'll open an image
so you'll see we're in pixelmator pro it
was just updated today actually
you'll see we can select different
things around the image with it
it's super fast and it's using machine
machine learning to help
improve this as well but how it performs
over time i'm not sure but it seems to
be performing at the same speed as my
mac pro so it seems to be okay there
let's go ahead and quit this
now let's go into final cut pro and see
how fast we can export a 4k video
and so this is my macbook air review
from
earlier this year in march so you'll see
at the end here if i move the cursor to
the end
you can see it's 11 minutes and 32
seconds long
it's 4k so if i go to file and then
share
this is probably from a panasonic gh5
footage
we'll go to share a master file it
is missing a few of the things from the
plugins as those have not been
updated yet but let's go to settings
we'll do
video and audio and then we'll render it
to h.264
that will make a five gigabyte file now
to measure how fast this is
i'll use my iphone 12 promax as the
stopwatch so i'll put it here
so i'll go ahead and hit start on the
stopwatch and save at the same time
get that to stand there and let's see
how fast this actually exports
or exports here you'll see sharing right
here
and it completed in about 6 minutes and
52 or 53 seconds
that's absolutely mind-blowing for what
this mac
is it's an 11 minute and 32 second video
that completed in about half the time
which my mac pro won't even do that so
that's pretty impressive
not with all of those titles and
everything and so someone asked me if
you could use
visual studio so i've installed visual
studio for mac
you'll see it's opening up this is the
first time i opened it
i'll go ahead and click i'll do this
later and you have
which keyboard shortcuts do you prefer
i'll just click continue since i don't
normally use this we'll click
new we'll wait for it here
and you can create whatever you'd like
here of course
let's go ahead and just click
next and we'll just
type test and wait for it to create
and we'll see what happens so i don't
know how fast this is normally
but you can get an idea of what it's
looking like now it's saying
the get command requires a command line
tool we'll hit agree
it's finding the software downloading it
and you'll see we're in visual studio so
you can use it of course here's the
command line
the console and it looks like it works
just fine so you definitely have the
option to use visual studio
and android studio and everything else
seems to work fine i've only found
one application that i couldn't use with
this and they tend to be audio
applications
such as those from rogue amoeba or if
you use piezo which is something i use
normally
that doesn't seem to work with this but
everything else seems to work i don't
know that i'd use it for games other
than what's in the app store anyway
but that could run fine as well but this
is more of a
work type computer so it runs everything
really well and it's surprising how fast
everything runs in final cut pro now
another thing is
these macs don't even get warm when
you're using them it's pretty incredible
there is air coming out of the back with
the vent but it's super
cool and it feels like basically cold
aluminum which is really impressive it's
not even warm when you're using it so
whether you're installing all of this
information or different programs or
using final cut it doesn't even seem to
get warm
or spin up the fans very much at all so
or the fan that's in here so
it'll be interesting to try and use it
it's super fast at exporting video so
i'll try and edit video with it
and i'll see how it goes over the next
day or so hopefully that answers all the
questions you have about it if you'd
like to get your hands on the wallpaper
in this video of course i'll link that
in the description now if you have
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aaron i'll see you next time
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