The 2020 Intel mini is still available and that’s what crucial and others are selling memory. Apart from this I just use Indesign - very rarely though - to help manage our school journal. (The only reason I use chrome is because my school has extensions in chrome we must use). I teach from home and use Zoom and Chrome heavily. Pick any ten apps you want to start and race the entry level Air with any Mac of your choosing - iMac Pro, Mac Pro, or an 8 core MacBook Pro - there are only few specialized tasks where the Air is slower. Hello I was wondering if I really should get the 16gb of ram for the M1 Mac Mini. Real world benchmarks are showing them completing work dramatically faster than 12 core Mac Pro with 32 GB of RAM. I would not mistake an 8 GB RAM Air, Pro or Mini for anything but a beast of a workstation for most tasks. Everything is soldered to the logic board for Apple Silicon Minis. The SSD chips have separate placement on the logic board from the Processor board. There is no slot or place to add memory on the M1 based Air, Pro or Mini. RAM Memory on the Apple Silicon M1 Processor is integral to system package “chip” that’s mounted as one unit to the logic board. My personal guess is, that we will laugh in the next generation (Mx) about the RAM-limitations the first generation had.īut if you have some more insights (which I don't have) I would be more than happy, if you could share them with me.No RAM upgrade - you would need to reflow new processor board or be skilled enough to rework the one you have. Starting at the point that they still use Thunderbolt 3 in MacMini I'm not sharing your idea of 'there’s the almost-as-fast SSD' because I don't see so much improvement in the layout besides the M1. I was able to construct extreme situations where memory was a limiting factor, but for day to day usage it is not a big deal. I also couldn't find anything about the speed of the internal SSD. Using my 8GB M1 Mac Mini for some production work yesterday has shown that the little machine can take a beating and 8GB vs 16GB is not as important for my graphic arts workload. The only thing I could find are the unusual big caches in the M1 Design but we are talking about 12 MB of shared L2 cache and some instruction and data chaches with 192KB and 128KB. Unified memory is not a brand new technology and before I opened this thread I tried to find anything on how big this unified memory is at the M1 and how this memory architecture affects memory hungry apps like any video or photo software but I couldn't find anything about. Interesting how strong your believe is in Apple's marketing bla bla.

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