Speed : It’s not just that it’s faster, with fewer dreaded hourglass bottlenecks, it’s also amazingly quiet. But I loved the convenience and having another port open for me. I already have over 10 of them on my desk.
I could have saved $200 and not bought the new drive. (The bill for a 13-inch MacBook Pro with 512 HD and 16 GB RAM: $1,700.) So I just needed to buy a monitor, which cost $150 for a cheap Acer 22-inch model. However, in my case, I already owned the Magic Trackpad. So chalk up anywhere from $200 or higher to the final bill.) (And speaking of price, don’t forget you’ll also need to add a keyboard, mouse/or trackpad and monitor. I picked up a 2 TB drive from B&H Photo for $200, inserted it into the AGPTEK unit, and saved myself $500. To add 2 TB of space to your Mini, Apple charges as much as $700 extra. And it makes it a way more economical way to add more hard drive storage space than by buying it from Apple. These are the faster, more reliable drives that don’t have spinning disks. This AGPTEK unit also lets you insert, into the unit, an internal solid state hard drive. This dock gave me 4 more traditional USB inputs and a memory card reader for both SD and microSD cards, which, for a photographer who shoots on cards, is vital. The purchase was made that much better with the $69 accessory dock from a company called AGPTEK that works great with Minis. The Mini has room for 4 USB inputs, plus HDMI for a monitor, ethernet for connecting directly to the Internet router and a headphone jack.Īdd $200 for 16 GB RAM instead of 8 GB: Total: $1,099 before tax.Īnd finally, $69 for a dock and $200 for a 2 terabyte hard drive. I have hard drives, an audio mixer, webcam and memory card readers that need to be plugged in. And one of them is used by the power cable. Nor did I want to buy the desktop iMac, which is more affordable, (around $1,800 for me, with the extras) with the old technology.Ī 13-inch MacBook with the M1 chip? Yeah, it was either that or the Mini, but I couldn’t get over that Apple only has two measly ports on the 13-inch MacBook for accessories. To replace the same 16-inch USAT model with what I need would cost $2,500 or so. But there are some issues to be aware of.īut let’s begin with why I choose the Mini in the first place. For this review, I’ve been living with the Mini for a little over 2 weeks, which seems way more appropriate.īottom line : Love it.
Secondly, we were usually given a day or two to get a product, test it, and write up our impressions.
I went out and bought the Mini on my own. First, Apple didn’t loan me a product to review. Readers, this is my first post-USATODAY review, and it has two huge differences. I went cheap with the Mini, but cost wasn’t why.
And all basically have the same performance specs. The M1 options are just 3 models, so far: a MacBook Air ($999), MacBook Pro 13-inch (starts at $1,299) or the little Mac Mini desktop computer, which starts at $699.
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