Mac mini m1, worth to buy?!

[Cycleman87]

I know guys is too soon.but....is worth a try?! my MacBook 2017 can't play 4k movies.....has drop frames!

the apps that I use is the following.

1)safari
2)μtorrent
3)viber
4)mpv
5)davinci resolve
6)tuxera
7)Mac fan control
8)bartender
9)copyclip
10)tiles
11)hidden me
12)Istat menus
13)iMovie

also let me know if somebody knows the speed of ethernet port.

thanx

 

[Ocnetgeek]

I know guys is too soon.but....is worth a try?! my MacBook 2017 can't play 4k movies.....has drop frames!

the apps that I use is the following.

1)safari
2)μtorrent
3)viber
4)mpv
5)davinci resolve
6)tuxera
7)Mac fan control
8)bartender
9)copyclip
10)tiles
11)hidden me
12)Istat menus
13)iMovie

also let me know if somebody knows the speed of ethernet port.

thanx

I have the M1 MacBook Air and I will just note that you won't need Mac Fan Control anymore. The M1 Air doesn't get warm at all and there is no fan in it. Also I think we are waiting on an update for Istat Menus for the Temp sensors. The only Temp mine reports currently is the SSD temperature

 

[Cycleman87]

thanx for the quick response.

so you running macOS without issues?!
how free space it has on the first boot?!

 

[Ocnetgeek]

thanx for the quick response.

so you running macOS without issues?!
how free space it has on the first boot?!

I picked up my M1 Air last night and have spent probably 6-8 hours total working with it so far. Updated it to the latest version of Big Sur and started installing my Apps and copying over data. At one point I was downloading Big Sur and copying over about 200 Gb of data from my external HD and the system never heated up. I didn't check to see how much free space it had at boot. I bought the 1Tb drive so was not really worried about it. So far I am pretty impressed with this Laptop. It's very responsive and very cool.

 

[Cycleman87]

hope somebody will tell me how much free space there is at the first boot in order to see if I can save some money.

 

[anubis1980]

hope somebody will tell me how much free space there is at the first boot in order to see if I can save some money.

I think my 256gb had about 220 free space, ive got a 15 gb game and 12 gb of photos on it and some misc space used up and have 198.3gb free

 

[Einz]

I know guys is too soon.but....is worth a try?! my MacBook 2017 can't play 4k movies.....has drop frames!

the apps that I use is the following.


7)Mac fan control


also let me know if somebody knows the speed of ethernet port.

thanx

Don't think you'll ever need fan control again

 

[Cycleman87]

I think my 256gb had about 220 free space, ive got a 15 gb game and 12 gb of photos on it and some misc space used up and have 198.3gb free

σο 256gb is good enough for me also! thanx!

 

[Cycleman87]

Anubis1980 you are talking about m1 with Big Sur right?!
if yes it is working smooth and properly ?!

 

[anubis1980]

Yes I am. Its very quick, even better now the indexing etc has finished. I have never been as impressed with a new bit of tech as I am with this MBA laptop.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

All your apps should work fine (except fan control, but don't worry about that.)

The Mini's Ethernet port is 1 Gb.