Mac mini M4 (2024)

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Mac mini M4 (2024)

194 positive 2 neutral 36 negative

Based on 232 Reddit mentions

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Now that the M4 Mac minis have been around for a year, has heat and/or throttling been a problem for you?

So, I just got an M4 Pro, and I find that under heavy loads, it would rather throttle than turn the fans past like 15%. Like if I full core compile rust, once it hits 90c, the core speed drops from the 4.51Ghz to like 3.7 while the fans will only go to like 15% at max. If I use tools to jump the fan

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thekwoka in r/macmini

April 13, 2026 8:39 AM

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7 hr of screen on mac os tah0e doing light tasks macbook pro m2p 😔

The fruit company has been spending a lot of energy in creating flashy eye candy and movies instead of doing optimization QA. I recently found out my Memoji avatar animation in the login screen was using 10% CPU on my M4 Mac Mini. Imagine that!! I switched it off and moved to a static image avatar f

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EfratBT in r/MacOS

December 3, 2025 7:52 AM

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Big RAM usage DDG

Same for me. My M4 Mac Mini was slowing down with the excessive RAM usage of the DDG browser. I switched off AI and that improved things a little, but it still starts up using 2.5GB RAM and that increases steadily over time.

scgf01 in r/duckduckgo

December 4, 2025 8:04 AM

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New Build - Office Power House

You can get M4 Mac Mini 512GB storage 16GB memory for £700 right now, just get an adapter to connect the second monitor. If you don't need Win11 Pro, you can choose Home and the higher CPU version here Dell Tower | Dell UK and get a £670 desktop with a much better CPU performance.

JeremyJoeJJ in r/buildapcforme

December 4, 2025 1:28 PM

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MacBook Neo vs … nothing?

My son wants a new computer. ..for about A$ 1,000(US $670) he needs one in 2 weeks time. I have done a comparative analysis ... Neo 512 GB SSD model is not price competitive at A$1,099 ( A is for AUD , Australian dollar) also for now it has a very long delivery time - not even a starter. Macs are no

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mikeinnsw in r/mac

April 5, 2026 9:30 PM

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Yet another Hackintosh for video editing, GFX and color grading | Intel Core i9 13900KF, 64GB RAM, RX 6800, Airdrop, Sequoia 15.7.2

The single-core performance is somehow worse than m4 mac mini?

Additional_Jump216 in r/hackintosh

December 4, 2025 2:42 AM

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