Can You Upgrade the 2018 Apple Mac mini?! - RAM Upgrade Tutorial and Teardown
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Can you upgrade the RAM, CPU, and SSD in the 2018 Mac mini?
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After 4 years of waiting, Apple updated the Mac mini at long last. Is the new model better than the previous Mac mini? How is the internal design-and most importantly-is the cooling assembly good enough to handle the workload you're going to send it or are you going to need thermal paste? Liquid metal? Find all this and more in this Snazzy Labs exclusive Mac mini teardown and RAM replacement tutorial.
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yeahhhh, stay snazzy everyone.
could you do a tutorial on how to make a Hackintosh?
Snazzy Labs hi, have you find coil whine on new Mac mini ssd?
Hackintoshhhhh
I remember when macs where black and white and ordered CPUs from Acron :P
We all forgetting that Snazzy predicted the Pro Display...
So did every tech guy who looked in that mini's booklet.
It’s not the pro display The stand is iMac like and FREE😂
Chow Andrew yo that’s true😂
@@jpotter124 Or is that, the artwork of the upcoming Apple silicon iMac? The display also looks like a 16:10 aspect ratio display.
V. Sriram Sundar i think it could be, they love to hide Easter eggs in the instruction manuals and on the website, but I hope they make the display larger and hopefully without giant bezels
Me: I wish I had a snazzy labs video to watch Five minutes later this video comes out
Ask and ye shall receive!
Same here.
What a fucking suck up.
@@snazzy Thanks for using Hiberno-English!
1:52 Watching it after WWDC. It does look like an Apple XDR Pro Display 😜
I was going to say the same thing. Also ready to pay 1,000... for a monitor stand!
meliohe Ok fine. How about Minecraft Earth? Seriously it looks great
@@meliohe5080 geez, who pissed in your cereal?
@@swagchief98 It's already justified
Yeah but the foot looks quite different. More like a standard iMac foot
Can we take a moment on admiring how beautiful the internal components are? Those grill holes that forms a circle around the Wi-Fi antenna is art. Also that snail shell fan in the middle
Well done. I like the amount of detail you share in the video.
Thanks, Aaron!
Oh wow two of my favourite tech reviewers!!!
This is what happens when you are a Mac and PC guy. You tinker with what isn’t supposed to be tinkered with. Love it!
Who says its not supposed to be tinkered with?
Northfold Incorrect. Apple warranty says you can upgrade it and it will still be under warranty unless you break something major on it
Just cause apple said so means i shouldn't?
Very little about its construction seems to suggest they want people to do anything but fill landfills with them and buy a new one when you need more RAM or storage.
T2 chip makes sure the RAM is the only thing that you can do with it. Bye bye Linux.
Started watching this channel couple of weeks ago but just realised this is the same channel I used to love to watch AGES ago and then he went to Bolivia and was gone for a while. Amazing that you're still at it Quinn. Keep up the amazing work dude!!
Nice teardown video of the Mac Mini! Appreciate the time you took explaining AND demonstrating how you remove the different components to access them.
I figured Apple would make it extremely difficult to replace the RAM, given it would be less than half the price to upgrade to the max RAM by doing it yourself compared with upgrading at the Apple online checkout.
You'll definitely save money if you plan on upgrading beyond 16GB of RAM. So long as you're willing to open the computer up!
Snazzy Labs I heard it was about £400-600 saving on the top 🐏 (
I was expecting them to do cuz it's their nature Some fan boy might say it's to cool the ram even to its just 4gb modules only each
It might be difficult for some people, but you'd need to be pretty inept for this upgrade to be referred to as extremely difficult. Pain in the butt, sure, takes less than 60 seconds to change out ram in my 2012 mini, but this looks like it's merely time consuming to anybody that knows how to properly use a screwdriver, and not difficult.
I've taken Mac minis apart to replace hard drives and RAM this actually does seem a little bit easier until I realized oh there's no hard drive replacement there's no need to go any further so yeah this is not terribly hard but very inconvenient All Things Considered
Thanks for showing the teardown. I was planning to rip it apart myself and after watching your vid, I'm much more confident that I can with no issues.
I watch a lot of tear down videos, and you're camera shots/clips/editing are superb! Another sub for you!
Ryan Weber but it’s dark
Still have a G4 mini - was an amazing machine for it’s time!
The speaker is for saying "BONG!" on bootup
Casper S� That’s just what I was going to say. The speaker is for startup sound and alert/system sounds for anyone not hooking up their Mini to external speakers. I have a 1st Gen. PPC Mac Mini 2005 and a 1st gen. Intel-based Mac Mini from 2006, both which have a single mono speaker with awful sound but which was likely include partly so you had a means of hearing the boot up and system alert sounds.
but macs don't have an startup sound anymore, do they?
Sebolio there are still system sounds/alerts you’d need a speaker for even if the current Mac Mini no longer has a startup sound. Besides, I think many buyers of this system would expect at least some sort of built-in speaker even if it’s just a crappy one. All other Macs outside of the Mac Pro have one and PC desktop tower systems generally include external speakers, if one is not built-in. The Mac Mini being a BYODKM system (bring your own display, keyboard, and mouse), it makes sense to have even a crappy speaker built-in with users wanting/needing better sound can bring their own speakers too.
Charles Bunnell You Chan bring the Startup Sound back with a command.
Dude. This is the first video of yours that I've watched - you make tear down look SO easy! Amazingly simple .SUBSCRIBED.
I know I am never gonna buy a Mac but I still watched this video till the end. Your videos are so satisfying. Keep it up, bro!
If I may ask the following questions: - How much RAM can you add? 16, 32, 64 GB? - What RAM exactly? Max frequency? Model? Much appreciated.
It looked like a very professional tear down. Unplugging of components were shown very clearly. Thank you for your efforts. Could you please also run a read and write speed test of the new SSD in mac mini ?
it should be on par with the MacBooks, so pretty fast SSD. Just extremely pricey to upgrade.
Good grief, check out those views. Thanks for making such interesting videos Quinn - always informative but fun too 👍 Keep up the good work dude 👊
The Mac Mini was the only Mac I'd ever looked at to buy. I got to use one at my old work and I loved it, so I'm really happy about this.
That RAM cover is made like a faraday cage. The frequencies of the ram, the processor, USB, and wireless are all in the same (or an integer multiple of) frequency range. You’ll get induction noise...like when a cell phone about to ring would cause static in nearby speakers. The first metal grill you removed after prying off the base severs the same purpose...note how the antenna was placed on the outside surface of it...keeps it free of internal electrical noise. Without that ram cage Apple would have had to use ECC memory to keep it stable for even more $$$. The interference drops away quickly with a little distance but the mini is so small you can’t get them very far apart. The skull canyon nuc puts the WiFi module on the other face of a metal plate between it and the motherboard for the same reason.
Tony Giannetti interesting
We need more people like you.
Why does no other mini computer have that than? Like an Intel Nuc?
Sounds like bullshit lmao
What utter horseshit.
@snazzy labs you are the only Apple/mac KZheadr I can watch. You have a very good view of what computers should be and know that Apple could do more for there users. keep up the good work!
I can recommend Peter Paul Chato. He's a funny character that really likes MacOS but isn't a blind fanboy and expresses his critcisms (so of course he does hackintoshing). His video's aren't as slick as the ones Snazzy makes but they are unique in their own way and quite entertaining.
CheapBastard1988 Sadly some of us have to stay legal and buy Apple hardware whenever we want to run mac-only software
EverthingApplePro is pretty objective too, especially for an Apple-centered channel.
I love it when you do these kinds of mac building/disassembly videos, so cool!
Great video. Very good narration and excellent visuals. Thanks for making this video.
I think the speaker was originally there so they could chime and sound error beeps at boot. The old PowerMac towers even had one, they sounded equally as bad, but better than nothing I guess! This is nice, shame about non-replaceable storage, but otherwise it's definitely better than the 2014 ones. Great teardown!
Yeah it’s like a cmos battery.. just there for board d level diagnostics.
That's why the ram cage is there. Because the rubber ram "clips" could just fall off... Yesh? Maybe? Anyway, great video as always. Thanks
RAM clips aren't rubber. RAM is held in with standard metal clips but covered in rubber which is there for the sole purpose of helping the heatshield/faraday cage/whatever-the-heck-it-is stay in place.
@@snazzy haha ahh ok, gotcha. :)
I looks like shielding, but I'm not sure why they'd feel the need to include it.
DDR4 Ram gets hot like anything else, It more than likely some type of heat Shielding, especially due to part of the heat sync being directly under the RAM
Probably aesthetics ? Cause the whole logic board and all the hardware is mainly black and silver ?
Absolutely cool and detailed review! Thank you so much!
I missed his videos when he left, glad you’re back!!
Good teardown. I give double like
To us tech enthusiasts, a video like this one is like a really good thriller movie 😎.
Emotional and thriller, I'd say! 😁
What kind of cringe is this
Douchebag.
yeeeee
I would say it's a Victoria Secret's show
Thank you so much for this video.!The cost of upgrading the RAM was insane. Glad I can replace it way cheaper.
PS you did make stunning shots of this machine... Holy smokes all the soft panning and proper pro light setup! Great work Mister
Louis Rossmann liked this video 3000 times.
Lol! That's the first name that came to my mind when the lad from the video started to disassemble the computer.
No
I have never seen Louis do a video on the Mac Mini.
My 2 cents: I think the being RAM SO-DIMMS is done to make more efficient usage of the available space. The overall internal design doesn't seem to be made _to obstruct_ repairs, it seems to be designed in complete _disregard_ of it. The results for the average Joe are the same, but the intention is different. The cage around the RAM is probably there to shield against certain EM waves.
I'm in almost complete agreement with you on that. However, the only thing that doesn't make sense is why they bothered to put a round access hole, especially because before it was used to facilitate the twist-off design, which is no longer relevant. Plus since its the bottom of the machine, making it a square footprint would make accessibility and assembly so much easier.
Yes. The high frequency (2666MHz) RAM creates interference EM noise that can interfere with the other computer components. I’m sure it can also receive interference, so hence the grounded Faraday Cage around the RAM cards.
But we are not caring this thing around it is gonna sit at desk
I still have the Mac Mini PPC I bought in 2005. It still runs great. I gave it to my young son as his first computer and to give him his first exposure to Macs.
Great video! The Mac mini looks pretty good on the inside.
8:42 I was wondering like how did you do that magic sticky finger connector removal, ok it's reversed.
My disappointment is that the Mac Mini’s didn’t come with the Intel “Skull Canyon” CPU’s that had Vega GPU’s. The would have been better than the on board GPU and that speaker.
I think you meant apus;p
I was hoping for this too!
@@TopolinoPipulino oh thanks for the info. I though they were caused they just seemed like what Intel did back in the day by gluing 2 single cores together and calling it a dual core :p
Actually, the Intel CPU AMD GPU combo is codenamed Kabylake G and is used in the "HADES Canyon" NUC.
The speaker is probably there for convenience, not as a permanent solution. When setting the thing up. Blind people use Mac as well.
You have the best Mac teardowns hands down
Outstanding video. Really informative and engaging.
That metal cage that sits above the RAM acts as a Faraday cage to prevent interference.
2:37 he’s a DJ!
You are indeed skilled. Thank you for uploading detailed video. Appreciate.....
Thanks Snazzy Labs this video really helps.
"Any Apple fans remember when the Mac Mini was first introduced"? ...Pepperidge Farm remembers LoL. I do remember Quin, it was certain a different time. :-) BTW, love the Omega!
I was waiting for that. But I’m too poor to afford it with eGPU. I can build the same Hackintosh for almost half a price.
I do remember the unveiling of the Mac Mini and bought it shortly after. Have had much fun with those machines over the years. My 'main' desktop is still a Mini, the last updated version before this year. I look forward to checking out the newest Mini. It's no surprise that Apple makes it more and more difficult to repair our own machines, its the nature of the beast really. I've been working on their equipment (and everyone else's) since the 80s and at least appreciate no sharp metal edges! lol :)
These insights are so beautiful! Nicely designed!
I honestly really liked my second gen mac mini. Upgraded the CPU in it and packed it with as much ram as it could take. Sadly, it's no longer with us, especially after my mishap with liquid metal. (>.>) That original CPU that I pulled out is still in my desk drawer.
rip O.G. Mac mini. I loved mine. It was my first dedicated editing computer I upgraded to for my KZhead videos back in 2009!
Quinn I know that power cable bit at 8:44 is a reverse clip of you putting it in. I'm on to you 👀
I use and love the 2009 mac pro running el capitan, old OS I know but all I can get, I have another drive with a patched mojave, one thing I love is the upgrade ability. You press a switch in the back, open the panel and you have access to user servicable RAM, 4 drive slots, GPU, and the optical drive. With some digging you can open the cpu slots (dual cpu chips).
Yes. I can remember when they were introduced. I still have it and it still runs.
Looking forward to a video of yours about building a HackMini, possibly retaining the same form factor... possible? 🤔
Stefano Bragaglia no. At least not with decedent power
There are sfx builds but honestly an Intel Nuc does most of this already. With the short versions you get the form factor yet you get upgradable m2 ssd and easy to upgrade ram. And I think it has Thunderbolt.
*Apple puts Apple Cores in their Computers*
_Bob McCoy “Think Different”
honestly probably would be better than intel sleeping
A-series Apple Cortex chipsets?
Then apple will prevent hackintosh by using proprietary CPUs...
Your video was very helpful in a decision that RAM can be upgraded in these Mac Mini's.. thank you
Thank you very much for posting this video. Very informative!!
I learned from this video that I should buy the RAM upfront and enjoy my new mini out of the box. lol... Thanks for another great video.
Sad but true :(
Our I can buy a good computer.
A kit of 32GB DDR4 SoDimm that is faster than the memory Apple offers (3200 MHz vs 2666 MHz), costs about $320. The upgrade that Apple offers is $600 for 32GB. For 64GB, you are able to find kits for about $800 - again, half the cost of their upgrade. I'm not really sure why anyone would want 64GB in a Mac Mini, but if you wanted anything more than 16GB Ram, I would definitely open it up and upgrade it myself. Plus, you can sell the 8GB set that comes with it as "Official Mac Mini RAM", and people on Ebay will eat it up.
Really not that big of a job to replace it, as long as you have the tools.
Just upgraded my 2018 Mac Mini (i7 chip) to 32Gb, very happy. BUT a watchout when buying memory upgrade kits from Crucial Memory. Their website lists two sets of kits for the 2018 Mac Mini: one set of upgrades promise 2667 SODIMM (ie speed) the other 3200 SODIMM (and we all know faster is better!). The faster cards have a big red ** NEW ** label on them, and are 25% more expensive. So I bought one. I installed it and it works, but the Mac tells me my speed is 2667. I call Crucial sales support, who tell me that it is technically "compatible" with the Mac Mini but that not all motherboards support the higher speed. And they suggested I should know if my motherboard will support this card, despite it being listed as suitable for the 2018 Mac Mini as "Guaranteed" to work. They said they can't check every motherboard of every product. So I have a higher spec RAM kit that my 2018 Mac Mini can't take advantage of, and I've paid 25% more for the privelege. Thanks Crucial. So beware: Crucial listings for your computer do not mean that the product performance specs will be achieved on your computer.
Thanks for caring to pass on the info.
This vid is excellent in every way and thanks for making it so informative. I’ve had to disassemble my MAC Mini2018 to replace what I hope should be just the power supply, thanks to an ant infestation where I live! Gotta love the tropical north! Now I’ve taken it apart with your excellent guided tutorial, just need to find a replacement power supply. Great job on this vid and thanks for taking the mystery out of these amazing little computers.
I still have this thing, put 32 gig ram in it from the beginning and its still doing its job very good, im using it now....
I think the main problem as with this and MacBooks is the soldered storage, sure it makes it more secure but SSD chips have a lifespan and will eventually fail. As you can't change the chips even if you have mad soldering skills (due to the t2 chip) the mac mini like MacBooks is now a limited life disposable item. I'm not sure if Apple even uses overprovisioning.
brian whittle Also, you have to securely destroy the entire motherboard according to your used storage opsec procedures. Don't want the recycling guys or the genius bar reading your online banking security codes when you hand in the machine for a broken USB socket issue. With a removable SSD you can swap it out when handing the machine in for service or recycling.
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 The annoying thing is the Mac mini clearly has room for an m.2 ssd instead of the soldered storage. It's just a cash grab by apple like using propriety SSD's in the iMac.
That is their strategy to keep the customers buying new products every 1-2 years !!
brian whittle m2 SSDs are slow as molasses compared to the T2 drives.
By the time the chips in these things die the machine will be practically useless in terms of the rest of its specs any way, plus you can always boot from an external drive. It's pretty trivial with Macs, especially ones with Thunderbolt.
I love my 2012 mac mini but after upgrading ram and running it 24/7 for 6 years as a media server and my personal desktop, i think its time to upgrade. for me its been a flawless machine.
Same here, but I hate the fact that storage is soldered.
The Shadow Man thats not really an issue for me. I kept all my media on an external anyway to keep the computer storage light. Best way to go I think
Same here! This is the upgrade I've been waiting for. I'll be going with the 6 core i7, leave the RAM at base, because I can upgrade it when I feel it necessary, and I'll bump it to 512GB SSD and keep going with my array of externals that are in use already.
Carlos Ramirez is that 2012 mini still good enough for everyday use such as KZhead? Emails? Some light video editing?(not 4K)
@@taylor6855 it is. i watch all my tv shows and movies on it unless im in the living room and i run most of my business dealings off of it as well. I even have over 500 hours of rimworld gameplay using the mac mini solely.
Kudos to you on this video, very in depth, hell, you make a better customer support than all of apple! thanks for this big time!!
This video was amazing! Thank you! Earned a new sub
All well and good but ... that soldered on ssd ... nnnnope ...
*Please build a hackmini that is cheaper and has better performance.*
Coming the first week of December!
It's impossible. The mac mini is a bargain, and all the computer 99% of families will ever need.
@@snazzy Looking forward to that!!!!!!!!!
Malc180s 99% of families do nothing but Facebook lol. You can do that on a 2012 netbook.
@@gfjfjufidi2880 My 2014 netbook has a touchscreen other than some expensive laptops. It can also read and delete error codes in the ECU of my car.
Simply amazing videos man. Really love these videos
I appreciate the way you do things! Just subscribed!
Apple was legitimately like "Oh yeah guys! You can technically upgrade the RAM again!" but of course...the SSD is soldered on. Way to go apple - way to go.
Came to hear this. So, basically the last well-priced, upgradable product (SSD) is now unusable as well unless you shove all your money up their a$$es! My old mac mini is the Apple device I still own/use. Had everything (PowerMac G5, MacBook Pro, several iPhones, Mac Mini, iPad) and Apple lost me. Every product has become mediocre to bad (except iPad Pro - so far) and ridiculously overpriced (especially, if you don't use the insulting low-spec base models). I feel betrayed by Tim Cook! It's so clear he only cares for one thing. And it's not the u$er. Can you gue$$?
yeah I was about to say that, its great that the ram is upgradeable I guess, but its a bit pointless if the SSD is soldered on,
I can't watch the stage show. Corp-celebration makes me feel like puking. Woooh a fucking box... wow.
The motherboard is dead? Good bye, data!
Well, yes, of course it is. Non-soldered SSDs are way slower. Even x4 nvme drives - which are pretty expensive - are nowhere near as fast as Apple’s T2 mediated SSDs. If you want to add slow SSD space, just put it on the USB3.1 gen 2/thunderbolt 3 ports.
Wanna know a joke... ...upgrading a mac
I really affraid that in the future more products will be like Apple. I mean, look, we have less and less products that we can upgrade, that we own. Even soft. Its goes to clouds, and we dont own it. We SUBSCRIBE to that soft. Creepy "1984" world.
Wanna hear another joke? Ok read the next line out loud JOKE Haha I’m so funny! 😏
Mac products are generally a joke
go search mac pro 2009~2012 and you’ll know it’s not a joke
@le Hoarderz Al-Shekelsteins who buys a surface? They're some of the worst windows laptops ironically. Dell XPS is easy to upgrade ram, wifi card, change battery, upgrade NvME drive, etc. Or build a PC and it's completely upgradeable. No windows fans talk up the surface but reviewers. Don't pull that shit here, no one claims that.
The attention to detail to the inside of the computer is a pleasant view. Look at the color coordinated parts.
That was a good video, informative, not overly wordy, nice shots of all the significant parts and things needed to open and upgrade RAM and maybe one or two other parts in the Mac Mini. Well Done. As an aside, it is worrying that the T2 chip appears to be used to detect "genuine apple parts" which may imply that replacing any part (RAM Excepted, I hope) using third party supplied parts may end up with the Mac Mini refusing to boot until a "genuine Apple part" is used.
1:28 - Just gonna take a LITTLE GUESS here before I watch the rest of the video: Practically not at all? Edit: Bingo! Fucking soldered-on SSD, that's ridiculous in a desktop machine. They easily could've fit an M.2 drive in there. I can't believe they even offer a 128GB option either, it seems that 256GB is the new "minimum" for PCs. However, absolutely excellent video man! Great camera work, editing, and narration. It was enjoyable to watch.
No kidding. I can't believe a m2 ssd or even msata would be impossible to fit. And getting an external drive defeats the whole point of this compact device. Meanwhile I got a 8300 Elite and a cheap 256 Intel SSD for a hackintosh.
Quinn, this is a really good video. Your skills are great. These shots are never easy to get but, you were able to get them. I hope you do more tear down videos of other Apple products.
Thanks! Not every shot is a win. Few are overexposed with wacky color but I tried my best. It’s really tricky to get good settings with such start contrast on background and mobo!
Well, we do the best we can do when shooting videos sir. I am glad, to see you're staying busy making these videos. Hope your trip was awesome!
A sophisticated introduction! I give my subscription without hesitation!
what a great quality video. good work Quinn!
The whole point of the Mac Mini was that it was affordable, but not anymore. Another marketing money grab by Apple led by Tim Cook.
He's an Auburn alum, what do you expect? RTR
I'm not sure if you noticed, but Apple is trying to move the Mac Mini into being another professional platform for people who need more compactness than what can be found on the Mac Pro.
@Swift Boiz You can get something like a Gigabyte Brix and pop a M.2 NVMe SSD in.
The first Intel Mac mini base model was $599 in 2006. That's $774.25 with inflation. So the current base model is only $25 more. I'm never happy when Apple pulls a money grab stunt (like the ridiculous price of SSD upgrades for this mini, or the insanity of soldering the SSD when a standard for NVMe sockets exists) but the base price of this mini ain't it.
It was launched when the average computer user still used desktops. Nowadays that market has gone to smartphones and cheap laptops. The real users of the Mac mini are now mainly the pro market. I bet at least 50% go straight to racks.
The T2 chip is designed to make you completely locked in and dependant on Apple.
Not like you could really replace anything in there without some expensive equipment anyway.
Epsilon It's meant to hold your data at ransom as well. Your data is encrypted whether you like it or not.
Some Things In Life Not true, the encryption and secure boot can be disabled, infect if you want to install Linux, you have to.
mikeward1701 I don't think the next gen T2 chips are designed to allow you to do much of anything in the name of "Security". On the old chips it was possible. These new chips will be different. Just wait and see.
The security really is good. They excrypt your data so it's significantly better than just having Facebook, Microsoft and Google spy on you 24/7.
Very informative video. Keep it up buddy!
Wow you know your stuff. A true pleasure watching👍
If I may, that metal Cage around the RAM is likely a heat sheild. The RAM sits directly on top of the CPU, so that metal helps to absorb and dissipate some of the radiant heat away from the RAM.
This seems the most likely explanation I've guessed so far. I'd hazard a guess you're probably right.
Snazzy Labs Still looks more like an EMI shield to me. Remember those RAM signals are probably the fastest off-chip signals in the entire machine, frequency is so high there are official limits on how far from the CPU pins the sockets can be, measured along the wires, just to keep the travel delays at light speed low enough.
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 thats... not how RAM works... XD
@Jordan Eilbert; no. The cage does not touch the RAM chips so they cannot dissipate RAM waste heat to the cage.
@@rif42 It is a heat "shield". Not a heat spreader.
A beautiful looking circuit board but when the SSD dies it cannot be replaced. could that be classed as planned obsolescence ?.
@Sally Smith Totally depends on the SSD and on the usage. SSDs won't break from shock, but from too much written cycles.
Apple is ALL about the planned obsolescence. Even back in the 90's when they soldered everything in the iMacs ....... Of course if you had a friend who knows how to use a soldering iron on boards, then upgrading it was't an issue. Luckily my friend had me to do upgrades instead of shelling out 400$ or more for more ram or hard drive space (or a new graphics card)
Yep that's CrApple for you.
By the time the SSD dies on this (unless its a defective part) the rest of the machine will be completely useless anyway. SSD's last MUCH longer than spinning drives. You can also boot from external drives if you want to. Hell, you can boot from an SD card if you wanted to with a Mac. It'll be slow as dicks but it's trivial to do it.
@@TalesOfWar An external isn't going to be pretty. Its just dumb decision from a consumer pointn of view.
love the videos, are you going to do a thermal paste upgrade on the mini? would you recommend buying this or a used 2017 iMac?
When the first Mac Mini came out it blew my mind out of my skull. It really was such a cool small computer. I have the 2018 one because I work on apps and need to push to devices and I like it but it’s just lost something. I’m very glad that with some work I can upgrade the RAM at least
Im actually still using the last 2014 version
How’s it holding up?
2009 here... early 2009
Do you think that that the Mac mini is worth it?? Would final cut run smoothly (or at all)?
Add an external GPU and sure.
Worked on those mini units for Capital Computers. People really loved their Mac Minis big time back then.
what an AWESOME video!!! Making it look easy, and also making it look hard at the same time.
But can you upgrade the ram without fearing that the t2 chip would block your computer?
@Sally Smith Name one example if shady merchants that do this? There are none. By shady merchants you mean repair shops and refurbishers.
My life would have been better if I never read that comment. Every sentence could be disregard as false. Processor companies have intellectual property that they will defend. Swapping a logic board is not done to be malicious. Let's say you have 2 laptops one has a cracked screen, dead battery or other issues. Let's say you have another perfectly good machine with just a bad MB you take the perfectly good board replace the bad one now instead of having to useless machines you have one perfectly good one. Also the "shadyness" described is a power management issue that is typically caused by low battery voltage hence why the issue went away when the MacBook is plugged in. If only there was a way to fix that without it being malicious and making it a counterfeit? If only there was something you could do besides throwing away a MacBook Pro that. Is perfectly fine except for the battery, one of the lowest cost parts in the machine. Or paying apple an exorbitant fee to install a battery. Also to this date their is no reason you should not be able to replace touch ID, or Camera sensors in a iPhone. the facial recognition and Touch images are stored in a chip on the logic board not in those components. Also regarding Intel in the 386 and 486 days the companies Cyrix and AMD both had liscences to produce X86 instruction based processors. They had a legal liscence to those designs and Marketed their processors and Compatible or Equivalent. Intel has an equally abismal track record of consumer friendliness when they fought hard to maintain full control of the market.
Yes the T2 basically guards the integrated CPU & GPU (Which it has a limited number of approved parts that it will allow not too dissimilar to Mac OS but each T2 is encoded for each device it goes into!) and any external connected device which it will scan for threats and drivers!
The RAM is not T2 protected just make sure when you buy RAM it says it works in MAC or at the very least uses the same connection type!
Tim Cook : That is a good idea, people should buy ram from apple not third party
they could have easily put an m.2 where that flash storage is... and 800 for 128gb on the base model is a complete joke.
They don't want you upgrading, because everyone will buy the base model and go buy a cheap 1TB for $139 or a cheap 2TB for $329. Mac charges $300 more to go from 128 to 256..
I really don't understand how you people have never heard of the T2 chip before. Jesus christ.
Bruh there's t2 for that and that proprietary storage is through pcie lane that means it's as fast as m.2
@@somhrsh But nowhere near as serviceable as an M.2 slot. Also, if your computer dies, M.2 means data can be recovered. It's actually amazing that a company can hate their user's data so much.
@@aidanjt They want you to use the cloud.. The one that was hacked and took them months to tell the public.
Wow! Well done my friend! I am not sure if this is the right computer for my music studio moving forward but it seems a reasonable upgrade to my 2012 mini. I bought it in 2012 without knowing I would be producing a lot of electronic music since then. I use Logic pro 10.4 and High Sierra and I have the smaller processor (I did not understand the processor concept then) so now I am having issues even with a 16 GB ram upgrade. Should I wait for a Mac pro or would this mini be enough for the next 6 years? I would of course get the faster processor and 32gb ram.
Excellent presentation, thank you.
Ima just download more RAM, tyvm. /s
It's so weird they made the RAM upgrade hard even though they advertised the SO-DIMMs in the keynote.
That's good 'ol Apple!
JetVeam I think they also made a certain comment that folks that were a certain extent of computer savvy would be able to do this themselves, the level is just higher then we all expected. Doable for sure, but most users won’t want to. The $200 upgrade isn’t so bad considering the ram itself is around $150 and the amount of work it would be to replace, not to mention buying the screw drivers if you don’t have it. Probably most worth it for folks looking to go 32 gigs and higher.
You don't even need a special tool to pry board out. It's nowhere hard. Think about how to make thermals work better first, because thermals have to work 100% of the time. And think about RAM upgrade last because it's only 10 minutes once or twice in this computer lifetime.
@@sergeyrozenblat7849 This. Long term structural integrity and performance is much more important than a casual modification.
Excellent quality video, as usual :)
Thank you so much. Thank u sooo much. This is so good also very interesting.nice video
I think the speaker is for errors, it may beep a certain times for different errors which involve hardware
Nope, Macs don't do that. Macs either display a useless icon on the screen or shut off.
Actually this is accurate, it's useful to have system sounds (like alert beeps, file drop sounds, etc.) output separately from monitor-grade speakers, eg. when doing audio production & recording, metering, etc.
Exactly!
In the old Mac mini it was used for the startup sound.
Nice Apple Pro XDR Display Predict :3
Excellent video. In fact your video has changed my mind about purchasing the new Mac mini, I now want one! Apple should understand that we want modularity and decent pricing. Sure they have their demographic who will pay more. But, it's good to see that they at least make the minimal effort by continuing to allow people with a tighter budget to at the least, be able to upgrade the ram. Its too bad that the SSD is not also modular!
The overall build quality is just fantastic.