The pads are made from synthetic leather, which is relatively soft to enhance comfort. They stick pretty close to the head, a critical feature for any headphone shopper. They're comfortable, have a solid construction, long battery life, and the W1 chip makes them compatible with Apple's Mac mini.Ī glimpse at its overall design depicts a pair that keeps you comfortable despite the number of hours you use the headphones.
#2017 mac mini specs pro#
And I expect their studies skewed strongly to the Mac Studio - so strong that it was not worth offering the M1 Pro on the Mac mini - especially when they can barely meet demand for the M1 Pro MacBook Pro.Despite debuting in 2017, Beats Studio3 headphones remain the brand's flagship over-the-ear headphones. So Apple likely did a study on how many people would buy a $1499 M1 Pro Mac mini compared to how many would buy a Mac Studio because for $500 more they had double the RAM, double the RAM bandwidth, double the TB4 ports and 50% more GPU cores.
#2017 mac mini specs plus#
You also get twice as many TB4 ports plus an additional two USB4 ports (so 6v2). And if you are at $1899, why would you not buy a base Studio since for $100 more you get 50% more GPUs and double the memory bandwidth? Even if you have zero need for the GPUs, if you needed 32GB, you would almost certainly benefit from the 400GB/s memory bandwidth on the M1 Max compared to the 200GB/s of the M1 Pro. Now, if all you want is multi-core CPU performance, then drop $1499 and you're good to go.īut what if you need more memory than 16GB, as well? Then you're at $1899 for 32GB.
#2017 mac mini specs upgrade#
Let's start with an M1 Mac mini with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD at $1099.Īn M1 Pro BTO upgrade would be a minimum of $200, and that would likely be for the binned version. Not in terms of specs, but one has to take into consideration the price and how that influences potential customer buying behavior. Which is to say, I don't know how I'd decide between a Mac Studio and an Mx Pro mini - I'd just love to have the choice, because that's a pretty big hole. Even if you add $100 for the two new GPU cores ($50 at $25/core, but Apple likes to round up to the nearest hundred), you're still $800 away. That's a big gap, and that's the gap where an Mx Pro mini would go.Īn M2 mini with 24 GB would bump the price by $200 using Apple's default scale of $25/GB, but $1500 is still a long way from $2400. It's hard not to notice that $2400 is almost twice $1300. (Bumping RAM in this case would take $400, since there's no 48GB option.) Again, that's base model with one $200 bump apiece on GPU and SSD. The Mac Studio I'd buy, if I had to buy a Mac Studio, is a BTO at $2400. That's base model with the low-hanging fruit gathered - one $200 bump apiece on RAM and SSD. The M1 mini I'd buy, if I had to buy an M1 mini today, is a BTO at $1300. If you bump the specs on the mini but not the Studio, you make the gap look smaller than it really is. I think a bigger concern for some people perhaps is not whether or not it has M2 vs.
Mac mini <- This is also an option, but I don't actually need this, and the cost is getting quite high. If Apple actually does release an M2 Mac mini with 24 GB RAM option, I see the people who actually "need" M1 Pro in a similar package being a very small niche, and a niche that I just don't see Apple supporting. With the hat-trick of 24 GB RAM, better GPU, and ProRes acceleration, this fits the bill for the vast majority of this mid-tier category. While I had predicted some of these improvements, I hadn't predicted the 24 GB option for various reasons. M2 includes several improvements over M1 that fits that middle ground, namely: LPDDR5 memory support with vastly improved memory bandwidth, 24 GB RAM support (for much less cost than the upgrade to 32 GB with M1 Pro), vastly improved GPU performance, and hardware 8K ProRes encode and decode acceleration. While there is a significant gap between the M1 Mac mini and the M1 Max Mac Studio, M2 fills that gap very, very nicely. Click to expand.I understand where you're coming from, but to be honest I no longer see much point in the M1 Pro Mac mini.
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