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Who is upgrading to the Mac mini M5?
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Hopefull there will be one, and they won't skip it like they did with the M3
As of today, there is no M5 Mini - kind of pointless to ask
Nope, I'm gonna ride out my 2018 Mini until Sequoia stops getting security updates, so by that time will be in the market to get the M6 Mini probably. Hopefully that generation of chip is a beast, and maybe coincides will a bump to base SSD capacity.
Well, The New Mac Mini is Almost Certainly Coming
Seriously, anybody's guess as to if/when it will arrive and whether it's going to skip M5 - its probably a safe-ish time to get a M4 (which would still be a big step up from 2012) but I guess if you've waited 13 years you can wait another 6-8 months.
If you're coming up from a 27" 1440p iMac, I think the bigger decision is what you're going to do display-wise.
Not me after upgrading to an M4 Pro Mini from an M1 Mini about a year ago. If I hadn't upgraded, I might have been tempted to wait for the M5 Mini's to show up - Apple may be waiting for the M5 Pro processors before switching the Mini's to M5.
2025 Asus 32" 6K display. In my part of the world it's <$1.2k + 12% VAT.
Add a $500 Mac mini M5 16GB 256GB that will be released within 6 months and it slots into a $1,799 iMac 27" 5K base model.
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I'd be very surprised if an M5 Mac mini is released – the M4 and M4 Pro seem capable of reigning for a good two years.
Amazing to have made do through 2025 with a 2012 iMac, though!
27" display is a big deal to me. If a 32" 6K iMac came out with the 24" 4.5K model in 2021 I'd ahve upgraded 4 years ago.
27" 5K is old tech from 2014 and TBH I wouldn't want to buy it as it doesn't increase screen size at all but just doublex pixel count.
I havent upgraded from my 2015 EOS 5Ds R so I didn't have new application that needs better hardware.
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MEEEEE!!!
Past year I got an M4 and an M4 Pro Mac mini to see what machine would better fulfill my needs, and even tho I was set to get the M4 Pro, it got a bit too hot for my liking, and surprisingly many of my workflows worked great on the base M4.
However, with the M4 mini I noticed that I would appreciate a bit more of oomph in the graphics side. See, I just switched to a 4K display, and I bought some AAA games that run natively on Apple Silicon (the Myst remakes), and I noticed that a bit more of extra GPU power would really leave my Mac mini right where I would want it to be, to run those games smoothly in 4K even with Ray Tracing enabled.
So, because many predictions pointed towards the M5 focusing especially on the GPU side, I decided to return both of them and wait a whole year to see how the M5 turned out. Lucky I still have a 2014 Mac mini on Monterey that works quite well for basic stuff, and recently I’ve acquired a tiny miniPC with a Twin Lake CPU and 12GB of DDR5 RAM. So I have my basic computer needs covered…
I’m really eager to get the M5 Mac mini seeing it’s awesome graphics and AI performance, d as well as a small but welcomed increase in CPU capabilities… no need of a Pro SoC for me, the M5 is finally powerful enough to fulfill all my needs, including some sparse gaming (I actually have a PS5 Pro for most of my gaming).
The only caveat will be RAM. When I bought the M4 mini I was really struggling deciding between 24 or 32GB of RAM. Now, seeing how memory hungry many tasks are, I really wish the M5 had been released with more memory to choose from. Namely, 48GB of RAM… but I guess I’ll get the 32GB model this time.
Past year I got an M4 and an M4 Pro Mac mini to see what machine would better fulfill my needs, and even tho I was set to get the M4 Pro, it got a bit too hot for my liking, and surprisingly many of my workflows worked great on the base M4.
However, with the M4 mini I noticed that I would appreciate a bit more of oomph in the graphics side. See, I just switched to a 4K display, and I bought some AAA games that run natively on Apple Silicon (the Myst remakes), and I noticed that a bit more of extra GPU power would really leave my Mac mini right where I would want it to be, to run those games smoothly in 4K even with Ray Tracing enabled.
So, because many predictions pointed towards the M5 focusing especially on the GPU side, I decided to return both of them and wait a whole year to see how the M5 turned out. Lucky I still have a 2014 Mac mini on Monterey that works quite well for basic stuff, and recently I’ve acquired a tiny miniPC with a Twin Lake CPU and 12GB of DDR5 RAM. So I have my basic computer needs covered…
I’m really eager to get the M5 Mac mini seeing it’s awesome graphics and AI performance, d as well as a small but welcomed increase in CPU capabilities… no need of a Pro SoC for me, the M5 is finally powerful enough to fulfill all my needs, including some sparse gaming (I actually have a PS5 Pro for most of my gaming).
The only caveat will be RAM. When I bought the M4 mini I was really struggling deciding between 24 or 32GB of RAM. Now, seeing how memory hungry many tasks are, I really wish the M5 had been released with more memory to choose from. Namely, 48GB of RAM… but I guess I’ll get the 32GB model this time.
Not me. I just upgraded to an M2 mini in 2023. Prior to that I used my 2012 mini for 11 years and only retired it because it was no longer receiving security updates. Sure, it wasn't exactly snappy but got the job done. But the speed of the M2 was a really nice upgrade. Plus, I like the form factor of the older design since I keep my 2 external drives on top of the mini.
I have just bought a M4 Mini; was using a 2010 27" i5 iMac (10.13) previously. Quite a difference. The iMac is now running in Target Display Mode, as a screen for the Mini - though I would like to upgrade the display as well at some stage (finances permitting).
Also, the button. And I honestly don't like the headphone socket on the front. I use a sound system not headphones and the cord really annoys laying
at the front. I like all else though )