New $499 M2 Mac Mini, M2 Pro & M2 Max MacBook Pros | Everything You NEED To Know!

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1. So glad I waited for a Mac mini

   • I have a 2011 era Mac Mini and now I’m upgrading. Costco sells the M1 version for $649. The M2 version should sell for $549.

   • I’m so excited for this new M2! I’m glad I waited as well

   • @JDanielTV picked mine up today for $499. (Used my Student Discount). Love mine so far.

2. Looking forward to the new Mini. I have no idea how to leave a dolphin.

3. The NEW Apple M2 series Mac mini’s are great. Wish pundits would get over GQ looks. Wanting to change the look of Mac mini which is in the consumer square box in the grid. Never need to change the clean basic look of this model KISS. Of course if you like you could always add fins to it.

   Then Apple gave the MacBook Pro professional square box in the grid an even better tool to do their job with the new M2 Max, and M2 Pro chips.

4. The price reduction on the base Mac mini is an unexpected pleasant surprise. The m1 mini was already a very good value. The new price makes it unbeatable. But the upgrades on memory and storage unfortunately did not go down and are quite steep compare to the Windows PC world.

   • @CyberSpidey The form factor is what keeps it low priced. Don’t think of it as a desktop.

   • @Pigumon when I suppose you aren’t familiar with the recent “mini PC” trend and how even those manage to keep RAM slots and upgradable storage while easily fitting into your palm. Hell, even SBCs except raspberry Pi come with accessible m.2 and PCIE slots while being credit card sized. I’m not so much concerned about the cost, I’m bothered by Apple’s deliberate choice to force buyers into paying excess for memory and storage. They don’t use a modular wifi card like other manufacturers (which is industry standard). It’s really a shame because I’d love to use ARM Macs because of power efficiency but there’s no way I’d pay a premium for essentially an inferior product that can’t be serviced at all.

   • @CyberSpidey it seems you aren’t familiar with the smaller more powerful M series system on a chip trend. They’re smaller than mini PCs, FAR more powerful, and take far LESS energy to power. You could literally fit these chips in a smartphone. You can’t get that with removable/upgradable parts.

     Now I’m sure you could technically make the chips pinned rather than soldered, but that would cause a ton customer service headaches with broken or bent pins, so Apple just foregoes that. Good choice on their part. No one’s being forced to buy these, yet they sell well every time.

     I’m not knocking user serviceable mini PCs, but they just don’t come close.

   • @Pigumon I’m sorry but you have no idea what you’re talking about.

5. Apple is showing Nvidia how to actually improve a products value and performance simultaneously for average users

   • Well said.

6. Built in more storage costs twice as much then if you just buy external storage. It’s like buying 2 Mac Mini’s if you get Apple’s extra storage.

7. Now if Apple would only bring triple A Title games to their platform instead of the kitty games in Apple Arcade. These Macs would be great. But now with no Windows support you can’t even do that anymore with no Boot Camp available.

8. I got the mini m2 pro and i dont plan on upgrading it until it breaks, I think it will always be fast enough for casual usage

9. Love these updates because it just further crashes the Used Intel Mac market even more. It now makes zero sense spending more than the M2 Mac Mini price for ANY Used Intel Mac including the iMac Pro.

10. Still rocking a mid 2017 Macbook Pro, not sure wether to pick up the M2 Pro if I get the chance this year or wait for the M3 Pro that is probably going to have a 3nm chip which is going to be a more substantial upgrade. The battery on my current macbook is pretty much dead with a 100% charge lasting only around 3-4h, (approaching 1000 cycles), getting the battery replaced costs about $250 which is almost 1/10 of the cost of the base 14” M2 Pro (in my country). The processor is also showing its age with regular internet browsing sometimes freezing.

    • If you want something theoretically better, you can wait for life.
      If you want better now, buy now.

11. As always, great video. What I have noticed that everybody has been missing is that when you look at the Apple website, the M2 Max only has one Ancoda and decoder where is the old M1 Max has two encoders and decoders. Am I missing something here because surely that won’t be as good for video editing and someone?

    • Good catch, commented so I could follow if someone else responded.

    • @SamDinzeyit’s listed as two now, if it wasn’t before.

12. I’ve got an older intel MacBook Pro 15” and have been waiting on the M2 but now that they’re here, I’m not too impressed and debating if I should just get a 2022 M1 Pro or Max at a discount (due to new M2 release). What do you suggest? If one could find a M1 that is specked similar to it’s newer M2 counterpart but $500 cheaper, which would you go with?

    • What are your tasks and needs and what type of workflow and workspace do you have?

      Do you travel consistently or mainly home office? Lots of monitors or minimal one screen setup?

      All business or lots of video renders or graphics heavy work? Do you play games?

      You can easily get away with a base model if you just do office work. You can also get more than you need if you don’t like updating constantly. Or you can get a cheaper model but update your hardware more often.

      Personally I’m on a 2012 MacBook Pro. I think this M2 pro finally hits the sweet spot in price and features. Four Thunderbolt ports and support for three monitors, as well as twice the rendering speed and graphic design software speed compared to m1. Plus I think an Ultra could be overkill and I don’t need more than 24GB Ram on average.

13. I hope the ssd won’t be the same as in the air (single memory unit) that have halved the read/write speeds (from 2800 to 1400). In that case the base configuration will be still better on the mac mini m1 (aside gaming and prores).

14. I would argue the media engine is definitely a reason to upgrade from the m1 mac mini!

15. We got an NVME drive from Crucial which was much cheaper than upgrading the M1 iMacs internal storage and honestly with playing games that are installed on it, I don’t noticed a speed drop at all.

16. Can someone explain on Apple’s website where it says : “See how M2 Pro and M2 Max stack up compared to Intel‑based MacBook Pro.”

    Why does the 16” numbers look slower than the 14”? It’s 15.9x & 11.6x on 14”. Then selecting the 16” tab it drops to 9.4x & 7.0x…. What’s the story here?