There’s an elephant in the room at every M1 Mac review, and it’s the fact that these are 1st generation devices.
Fastest Apple Silicon Mac (as of this writing).Apple Silicon is the future of Mac computers, and the M1 Mac mini already delivers enough graphics and CPU performance for the majority of photographers. I started this review by calling the M1 Mac mini “the best Mac for most photographers,” and hopefully you’re starting to see why. Video editing benefits in a big way, and a few tasks in both Photoshop and Lightroom are GPU-accelerated, but it makes very little difference in the majority of tasks that make up the typical photography workflow. But as we’ve said before-and we’ll probably have to say it again-GPU performance isn’t a huge deal for photo editing. The one major weakness of all the M1 Macs is the GPU performance. The OWC blog goes into this in detail, explaining the benefits of Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 and why “2 actually does equal 4” in this case, so check that out if you want to dive deeper.
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In real-world terms, that means that each port gets the full 40Gbps bandwidth to itself instead of sharing it with another port. On the Intel Macs, there’s one TB bus for every 2 ports on the M1 Macs, there’s one TB bus for every port. What most people don’t mention (thankfully, some do) is that you’re actually getting the same number of Thunderbolt buses.
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Both were being run by the same M1 Mac mini.įinally, a lot of people pointed out that the M1 Mac mini and M1 MacBook Pro feature only two Thunderbolt ports instead of four. That’s how I was able to compare the blooming performance of the Dell UP3221Q and the Pro Display XDR side-by-side without using two computers. Between the USB-4 ports and the HDMI 2.0 port, you can run two displays simultaneously: 6K 10-bit at up to 60Hz through the USB-4 port, and 4K 10-bit at up to 30Hz through the HDMI. In terms of ports, the M1 Mac mini features two USB-A ports, two USB-4 ports (essentially Thunderbolt 4), an HDMI 2.0 port, a gigabit Ethernet port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Small and discrete, I’ve always loved the Mac mini for how easily it can slot away in some corner of a desk, looking for all the world like a fancy paperweight.
It’s a well-built aluminum box, and that’s about all you can say about it. Unlike our laptop reviews, we won’t spend much time on design and built quality.
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I would not advise skimping on RAM, especially since there’s no way to upgrade it later.
If I were customizing my own Mac mini for photo editing, I’d probably skimp on Apple’s SSD upgrades and buy the 1TB version ($1,300) or 512GB version ($1,100) instead.
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