Help me choosing my Mac mini.

[Macx80]

Hi everyone, I want to buy the new Mac mini M1, but I am not sure if i buy the 8g or the 16g, mostly I will do internet, movies, a bit of gaming (Diablo 3, world of Warcraft, fornite...) and maybe some video editing. But my budget is tight so I will take the 8g is it ok? Or i must take the 16g?

 

[Lowhangers]

I have the 8 and get 60FPS on WOW on 5 setting, with 10 on ground clutter. The 8 should be more than enough for you unless you do heavy video editing. Buy it, try it and send it back within 14 days if it doesn't work well enough.

8GB with the M1 is NOT the same as 8GB with Intel.

 

[Apple_Robert]

8GB of RAM should be fine for your current needs. If after testing a few days you see a lot of memory spikes, return for the 16GB of RAM. I don't think you will have memory spiking problems, though.

 

[Macx80]

Tanks that what I thought.

 

[russell_314]

Hi everyone, I want to buy the new Mac mini M1, but I am not sure if i buy the 8g or the 16g, mostly I will do internet, movies, a bit of gaming (Diablo 3, world of Warcraft, fornite...) and maybe some video editing. But my budget is tight so I will take the 8g is it ok? Or i must take the 16g?

The 8 GB of RAM should be fine but what you need to make sure is to get enough storage. Games take up quite a bit and IDK if they could be installed and ran from an external TB3 SSD

 

[Macx80]

The 8 GB of RAM should be fine but what you need to make sure is to get enough storage. Games take up quite a bit and IDK if they could be installed and ran from an external TB3 SSD

From what know it works, I always played my games from my 3tb not even ssd on my older Mac mini Intel and that works good. For storage i am not worried I will buy later a 1 tb nvme ssd with thunderbolt, I think that will be fast enough.

 

[russell_314]

From what know it works, I always played my games from my 3tb not even ssd on my older Mac mini Intel and that works good. For storage i am not worried I will buy later a 1 tb nvme ssd with thunderbolt, I think that will be fast enough.

Oh yeah I've heard of people booting from external on Intel Mac minis and some were saying it's faster than the smaller internal SSD. I've just never done it myself and don't have an M1 Mac yet. I'm holding out to see what is next. I don't suspect any of the current M1 models will be disconnected when they release the new ones so if I don't like what comes out I'll just get the current silver mini.