Have proper knowledge about this Mac Mini M4 and you can make right decision. So it’s been almost 7 months since Maciny M4 was launched. However, you won’t get much in the box. Only this little thing isn’t available on the Mac and you get a power cable that plugs in here. The device is available for around $684.00 but whenever there is a sale, you can get it for between $592.80 and $627.00. I am talking about the base variant which comes with 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. In it you get Apple’s latest M4 chip which comes with 10 core CPU and 10 core GPU. On the back, you’ll find three Thunderbolt Type C ports that support USB4. Plus, you get a full-sized HDMI port. There is an ethernet port and here you can connect its power cable. On the front too you will find two Type C ports which are generation 3. It supports data transfer speeds up to 10Gbps. The rear ports support data transfer speeds of up to 40bps. And on the front itself, you get a 3.5mm audio jack through which you can connect your earphones or mic etc. Along with that, you get a small LED light here that lights up when your Mac is on and below this device, you get the power button which looks a bit awkward because you put your device on the table in this position and you can press this power button every time you press the power button. On the back side, you have to press it. Now, this Mac M4 is used for desktop setup. That is, you can build a complete Mac OS based PC with it. Laptops are perfect for portability, i.e. moving from one place to another.
But it’s also no less portable. You can put it in any corner of your bag and carry it. But you also need a monitor and keyboard to use it. So it is useful for those people who commute from office to home and home to office and have a monitor at both places. For example I have a monitor in my office and I also have a monitor in my home. Also, these days 15-16 inch portable monitors are also coming in the market which you can carry with you. Now many will say what is the need to make so much noise? Maciny M4 is very easy to use. For this, you need to push its power plug here and plug it in like this. Next, you need to connect an HDMI cable here. If you have a Type C monitor, you can connect it to this Underbolt port. The Samsung monitor I have supports the HDMI port.
So I connect it to HDMI. Also, it has only Type C port inside. Apple should have provided Type A port inside as well. Apple has provided five Type C ports inside. On a Mac system, you can do the same things that you used to do on Windows. So this Macinty M4 is best for editors as they are getting very good performance at very low price. Especially if you need to edit videos for YouTube, you can easily edit 4K timeline with it. If you edit in Final Cut Pro, you can edit high quality 4K video in multiple layers simultaneously. Many of you know that Final Cut Pro is software from Apple. So the software that Apple makes for use on its machines is very well optimized. Even on my old MacBook Air M1, the 4K timeline can be easily edited in Final Cut Pro. But this is not the case with the Mac Mini M4 as it has a fan device inside that manages its heat. However, when you do video editing or gaming on it, it gets hot. I have tested it. One day I tried gaming on it and it went from 40 to 41° and that’s because it’s made of metal. So the heat is distributed to his body. But it doesn’t mean that its performance is reduced when it gets hot. Its performance was always the same. You can also use Mac M4 for programming and coding. If you have to work in Premiere Pro, if you have to do coding, if you have to do animation work, then you can do these things. But if you use heavy software like Blender etc for animation, I think the base variant with 16 GB RAM will cost a bit less. You can go for its higher variant or you can go for pro variant. To understand the rest let me tell you that this Mac Mini M4 will give you twice the performance of Mac M1. I have a Windows PC with an i5 processor and 16GB RAM with a dedicated 6GB graphics card. But I’m surprised that this little Mac Mini M4 is giving that Windows PC a tough competition when it comes to video editing. Also Apple has brand value. You also know that Apple devices last a long time. And the good thing is that you get 16GB of RAM in the base model.