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M1 Mac mini - Not Powerful Enough

M1 Mac mini - Not Powerful Enough

For five years, MaX used a 12-inch MacBook "Core m7" 1.3 12" (Early 2016) [https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-m7-1.3-12-early-2016-specs.html] and offload nearly everything to Intel NUCs, cloud servers, local servers, etc. That ended when MaX's preordered top-of-the-range M1 Mac mini arrived with 16 GiB

Apple 2021 eGPU Module

Apple 2021 eGPU Module

> 2020 Apple Mac mini M1 does not currently support any external graphics Check out my previous article on Apple Silicon M1 + eGPU [https://blog.maxsaxe.design/2020/11/24/apple-silicon-m1-egpu] > 2020 Apple Mac mini M1 does not currently support any external graphics Check out my previous article on Apple Silicon

2020 Apple Mac mini M1 @ 8K UHD

2020 Apple Mac mini M1 @ 8K UHD

USB 4 will include VESA DisplayPort 2.0 capable of driving 8K and 16K; this capability has not been ratified by VESA or USB. The Mac mini M1's GPU and TB/USB 4 controller could be firmware-updatable to support DisplayPort 2.0.

2020 Apple Mac mini M1 @ 2 x 6K

2020 Apple Mac mini M1 @ 2 x 6K

Can you ditch the use of the HDMI 2.0 port on the 2020 Mac mini M1 to use both Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports to drive two 6K monitors? Both Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports can drive displays. The M1 GPU should be capable of driving two 6K displays; it may be able to support two 8K displays.

2020 Apple Mac mini M1 + eGPU

2020 Apple Mac mini M1 + eGPU

Three GPUs (one iGPU, two eGPU) for a monster-graphics output 2021 Mac mini M1. 6 x 6K displays 6 x 6016 x 3384 = 122,148,864 pixels

2021 Apple Mac Cube

2021 Apple Mac Cube

I received my top-of-the-range 2021 Apple Mac mini M1 with 16 GB DDR4 RAM and 2 TB NVMe flash 23rd January 2021. 2021 Apple Mac Cube 1. 16-core CPU 2. 16-core GPU 3. 32-core Neural Engine 4. 64 GB DDR4 RAM 5. 8 TB NVMe flash

2019 Apple Mac mini

2019 Apple Mac mini

The next Apple Mac mini should be released at the Mac event in October 2019 alongside the 2019 Apple Mac Pro. Two models: 1. Mac mini (integrated graphics) 2. Mac mini Max/Plus (integrated and dedicated graphics) Mac mini 1. Intel Core i7 six-core processor at 3.2 GHz 2.