Mac mini M4 Pro

I was compiling an updated dataset here and was surprised the way the SPEC single thread numbers puts Turin head and shoulders above apple silicon (well, i think it's more apple silicon just not doing great in it) which I was not expecting. I think it's just not a great choice of bench but the forma

I guess I'm weird and irregular... I upgraded from an M1 Max Mac Studio to an M4 Pro Mac mini and love it. I'm able to emulate games in RPCS3 at higher resolutions with better FPS. The CPU improvements are noticeable. I also have an M4 MacBook Air but I find myself using my Mac mini much, much more.

It’s pretty optimized, I’m not sure what you mean here. Audio processing isn’t always best handled by parallel processing on multiple cores. It’s critical when recording audio that everything happens sequentially and single cores do that more reliably. RAM is going to be the thing that makes the dif

I only know what you’ve told me so based on that I’m making some guesses: The project you’re in maybe isn’t so modestly sized. Or maybe you’re running too many plugins. Everyone thinks 10 plugins per track on a 50 track session is normal. If you need all that then it’s time to start freezing tracks.

Runs great and you can have triple OS install, I have Mac OS, Linux, and Windows. I installed Bazzite on mine and it’s running games great still on Sequoia for Mac OS, don’t see any reason to install Tahoe on it. Have a rx6900xt for Mac OS and rx7900xtx for Bazzite and Windows. If you can get it che

I retired my 7,1 when the new Mac Mini came out. GPU is the only area the 7,1 can really still hold its own. For everything else, my tiny little M4 Pro Mac mini is better.

It depends on what you're doing, but the M4 Pro Mac mini is a damned supercomputer and a terrific value in almost any configuration. There's almost nothing it can't do. What would you need a Studio for? If you're doing a lot of really high-end work, then I think it's in fact a good value, but M4 Pro

AIUI the single biggest bottleneck for most local LLM uses is memory bandwidth. From personal experience my M4 Pro Mac Mini with 24GB beats my M5 Macbook Pro with 32GB. There are some exciting things happening right now with memory efficiency (Turboquant, better MoE models) so if I had to choose, I'

This is such a whack take. Apple Silicon has been the single biggest leap forward in performance for mobile computing while maintaining incredible battery life. Microsoft and Qualcomm are still playing catch-up six years later. The first large company to go mainstream on desktop/laptop ARM. The M4 M

You can look into this project. Might be useful. It depends on what you need more exactly.If your focus is performance (ex. multi user environment), nvidia is your only realistic choice currently. But it will cost a fortune.For a better price/performance approach, you could go with a mac studio.Ex.