Mac mini M4 Pro

Weird because I have a T7 I use for music production and I’ve been getting slow disk/overload errors in logic on an M4 Pro Mac mini with 24GB ram. That machine is more than capable of what I’m throwing at it and I’ve had 2015 Intel MacBooks and M1 MacBooks work larger projects off the same drive fin

ARM Mac writes/reads at about 70%-80% of max speed of external drives on M1...M3 ands lightly faster on M4/5 Pro Macs . NO EXTERNAL DRIVE WILL READ/WRITE FASTER THAN AN INTERNAL SSD as internal SSD is used in most if not all regular writes/reads. In a Mac, file caching occurs in both RAM and on the

Pro has much faster RAM AND SSD .. NO EXTERNAL DRIVE WILL READ/WRITE FASTER THAN AN INTERNAL SSD as internal SSD is used in most if not all regular writes/reads. In a Mac, file caching occurs in both RAM and on the SSD. 256 GB SSD writes at 1,500-2,000 MB/s. It will constrain effective speed of USB4

M4 Pro 512 GB SSD M4 Pro Mac Mini features high-performance internal SSD storage with read speeds around 6,000 MB/s and write speeds of approximately 5,500–5,500 MB/s. These speeds are significantly faster than the base M4 model. Plus Faster RAM

I’m jealous!! I got the base M4 Pro Mac Mini last year and I love it. But to have 64GB RAM and 2TB storage would be awesome!! And especially not having to pay the vary large price for that config. Nice!

The base Mac Mini in the USA is $599. You are spending a fortune on huge apple premium for ram and storage. That stuff depreciates quickly and can't be moved to a new machine when you upgrade. Once you are going to such a high spec mac you are much better off getting a Mac Studio. Why do you need 64

computer stuff. I'm a fairly light user but do occasionally use iMovie/GarageBand for hobby level creative things. I also play games but generally not heavy resource demanding games. I would have 100% been fine with a M4 16/512 but I got a M4 Pro 24/512 cause I had the money to go bigger than I need

I shoot with an R6 and an R6 mkii. I edit on my original M1 MacBook Pro (13”) and on my newer m4 Mac mini (both with 16GB ram, 2TB internal SSD on the MacBook, 128GB internal SSD on the mini, or maybe it’s 256, whatever the smallest option was.) I use a thunderbolt NVME to store my catalogs so I can

I would frame this less as “M4 mini vs Studio” and more as “how often is the current machine blocking paid/important work?” Your current M2 Pro mini is still a solid machine. The red flags are the 16GB RAM and 512GB internal storage, not the fact that it is an M2 Pro. For your workflow, I would not

You might consider a M4 Pro Mac mini. Those start with 24GB. Also the M4 Pro has TB5 ports and they sound a ton faster than TB4 ports so monitor options are better and TB5 rated external drives would smoking fast. I'm not familiar with your tools but they likely do require RAM but I feel MacOS (and