![]() Although in its promotional materials, Apple leans a little more heavily into promoting the gaming chops of the M2 chips. Overall, I appreciate how you can get similar performance in either a desktop or laptop by choosing the same chip/RAM combo, making for easier comparison shopping but note that the desktops and larger laptops have some inherent thermal advantage with better cooling that can add a small performance boost. Apple's well-marked strata of chip versions generally tells you what to expect once you figure out the language, but it can still be tricky. The Mini and Air with M2 chips outperformed their predecessors with M1 chips, and similarly, the M2 Pro systems beat the M1 Pro systems. Generally, the Mac Studio desktop with the M1 Max chip from 2022 is the overall most powerful Mac we've tested – in situations where it has the most cores. In our benchmark tests, the different levels of M1 and M2 chip performance are also clear, in part because the CPU and GPU core counts and clock frequencies have risen generation-over-generation. I would definitely use it as an editing machine." Color correction didn't seem to be an issue. I could move easily around the timeline without any delay. I could preview the video at full resolution and only had some minor stuttering when I hit the graphics. In that case, he said, "That one felt almost flawless. Then he tried the same project on the M2 Pro version, which had 16GB of RAM. I asked one of my team's video editors to throw a decently chunky Premiere Pro project on both the M2 and M2 Pro versions of the Mac Mini.īlack Magic (Disk drive read and write test in MB/s) As expected, I had no problems, even running multiple sound-shaping plugins (although for a very basic task like this, a standard budget Windows machine could do the same). I recorded some video voice-over on the Mac Mini for this review, using Audacity and an external mic. That's an area where dedicated computers are in danger of becoming obsolete, as popular new platforms like TikTok are built around shooting and editing directly from your phone.īut as an occasional social media poster, and podcast guest and host, over the years, there's still no comparison between even advanced phone-based editing and using something like Final Cut or Premiere Pro on a desktop or laptop to produce your creator content, even if it'll eventually end up as a small vertical social video.Īnd especially for audio, the Mac Mini still feels like an excellent all-around solution. That could mean a small to midsize recording studio for music and voice-overs, or a home office setup for audio or video podcasts. And that system, even without an M2 update, is still more powerful in many cases than the new Mac Mini, which only goes up to an M2 Pro. ![]() ![]() Since then, the Mac Studio from early 2022 offered a bigger, more powerful take on the small-form-factor Apple desktop, with M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips. They included the MacBook Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the Mac Mini, each with the original M1 chip. That was in fall 2020, when the very first Apple Silicon products were released. The last time I tested a new Mac Mini was the last time there was a new Mac Mini. Especially if you have your own display and maybe your own keyboard/mouse setup, the Mac Mini gets you all the advantages of MacOS, and its speciality chops in design, audio production, and photo and video editing, for a lot less. As a long-time Mac reviewer, the relative affordability of the Mini line is still one of its most important selling points. ![]()
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