Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “M2 Mac Mini – A Student’s Perspective”.
Foreign students, now more than ever, have thousands of options for great computers that are light, quiet, fast and portable, but most of them are laptops. That’S where the Mac Mini comes in Apple’s latest addition to the Mac Mini lineup might be the best desktop computer for students. It’S incredibly powerful and light, but is it worth buying over Apple’s, M2 laptops or even last year’s M1 we’ll find out today? This is a Mac Mini M2, a student’s perspective. Let’S address the elephant in the room. This computer is ridiculously light at 2.6 pounds. You won’t have to worry about moving from apartment to apartment throughout your time at school.
Obviously, in day-to-day life, you’ll probably want to pair this with an iPad laptop or even a portable display. So you can take notes in class, but I’d still give the Mac Mini an a for portability compared to other desktops. So I’m sure most of these students are wondering how in the world am I going to use a Mac Mini as a portable setup, and it’s actually not that hard. So a ton of schools nowadays, particularly College colleges, have these pretty much external monitors or TVs that you can plug into and do group sessions, but also use your Mac Mini on the big display right. So let’s say you go to a school where you don’t really have an external monitor, setup or a TV that you can plug into well. I guarantee you’d have some kind of PC in your library or somewhere sitting in the school, where you can literally just unplug the PC um. This particular one has an HDMI port, so all I did was bring my HDMI cable and plug it in the size of performance ratio on this machine is really exciting.
Considering the 500 price point, when you use Apple’s student discount a 10 core GPU, a 16 core neural engine and an a core CPU to power, the Mac Mini M2 with Apple’s software Hardware, chipset Synergy, even intensive tasks like 3D, rendering 4K video, editing and coding will Perform very well: the base M2 models comes with 8 gigs of RAM, which is sufficient for most casual use. It can be configured up to 24 gigs of memory for users who require more demanding workloads in terms of space. The base model M2 comes with 256 gigs of SSD storage, which can also be configured up to two terabytes.
The Mac Mini M2 has two Thunderbolt 4 ports with support for DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, 4 USB 4 and USB 3.1 gen 2.. It also has two USB a ports. An HDMI port, a gigabit Ethernet port and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, I would say as far as performance in my experience with video editing, has been very great on here. With the exception of high resolution footage, it does tend to slightly lag sometimes – and I think, that’s probably because of the slower 256 gig base model SSD and also due to the memory. So when I’m multitasking, I do hear the fans kick in and I do see a little bit of lag.
So I would suggest if you plan on doing things as intensive as video, editing or even more intensive. Please make sure you upgrade both of those things and by the way I love using the nothing buds um just because they actually work very well and they’re, very portable or the Apple earphones. With my setup, when I am traveling with the Mac Mini and obviously for students, the real question is: should you pay for this over the 1200 empty MacBook Air that has a display battery and Camera? The two computers have the same chipset, so you’ll see similar performance in them, but the Mac Mini will always be slightly better. Just because of that price point, MacBook convenient does come at a slightly performance cost not to mention that Mac Mini Surplus reports.
Like you know, the USBC to also a full-size USB is awesome for students who don’t want to have to use adapters all the freaking time. I’D say if you already have a desktop and peripherals and you need as much performance as you can get. It’S pretty easy for me to recommend the Mac Mini over the MacBook Air at 500 with the student discount. This is definitely my favorite entry-level professional computer for students. If you’re going to school to study something computationally intensive, it’s going to be hard finding a dollar to Performance ratio better than this, especially in Apple’s ecosystem. It’S small and portable making it ideal for travel or if you have limited desk space it can hook up to any monitor.
So you can easily switch between work and play without buying a separate computer. If you wanted to make it a more traditional at-home, Mac desktop pair with a Mac, monitor magic keyboard and Magic Mouse, even though this year’s Mac Mini is only slightly faster than the N1, I still recommend it for feature proofing and picking this computer for any student. Again, you can’t beat that 500 price point, especially when you use Apple student discount. My name is Victor camongo with another everything technology: video thanks for watching bye, foreign .