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Apple Mac Mini: M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD (Late 2020 Model) Expired
$550
$699.99
+ Free Store Pickup
Microcenter has Apple Mac Mini Compact Computer w/ Apple M1 Chip (Late 2020 Model, MGNR3LL/A) on sale for $549.99. Click the Reserve Now button on the product page and pick up at your local store.
Thanks to Community Member warpshield for finding this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to Community Member warpshield for finding this deal.
Specs:
- Apple M1 Octa-Core Processor (4x high-performance + 4x high-efficiency)
- 8-Core Integrated GPU
- 8GB RAM (onboard)
- 256GB Integrated NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive
- 802.11ax WiFi 6 / Bluetooth 5.0
- Ports:
- 2x USB Type-A (USB 3.1 / USB 3.2 Gen 1)
- 2x Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C (supports DisplayPort / HDMI / VGA & Power Delivery)
- 1x HDMI 2.0 (output)
- 1x 3.5 mm Headphone
- 1x Ethernet
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Edited August 22, 2022
at 03:44 AM
Microcenter deal is live again:
Apple M1 8-Core CPU
8GB Unified Memory
256GB Solid State Drive
8-Core GPU/16-Core Neural Engine
macOS
10/100/1000 LAN + WiFi 6 WLAN
$549
https://www.microcenter
Apple M1 8-Core CPU
8GB Unified Memory
256GB Solid State Drive
8-Core GPU/16-Core Neural Engine
macOS
10/100/1000 LAN + WiFi 6 WLAN
$549
https://www.microcenter
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My swap (with 48 days of uptime) is 3-4GB. Just because it's in swap doesn't mean it's actively writing/reading from the swap.
Here's a graph of my swap over time, and ALSO how much swap reads and writes over the course of an hour.
https://imgur.com/a/AOK9lFg
Memory swap isn't bad.. It's like a tiered memory storage... It's only bad if it's actively trying to utilize the swap with read/writes, but it takes a lot of those to hurt the ssd.
This is with discord + vscode + spotify + chrome + occasional FT. 8gb M1 256gb.
https://www.costco.com/mac-mini-%...94159.html
8GB on an M1 is not a problem at all, it is much more memory efficient than Windows PCs with 16GB+.
M2, based on how they are pricing the M2 MBAs are going to be $200 more. Not worth it for that minor bump.
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They're probably just going to do the same thing they did with the M2 Air and raise the price of the new Minis rather than drop the price of the old.
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Then I was getting a lot of hangups. It wasn't the wonderful miracle machine people had been waxing eloquent about online for months. Learned to check out Activity Monitor application. Almost always yellow, sometimes red. Apples support says when it spends a lot of time in the yellow range, you need more memory.
I run nothing too fancy. Quicken file is always up, few tabs in Safari, messages, mail, calendar, FaceTime. Apple Support said just to continually close what I am not using. That is really annoying what was a $1000 machine in 2022. I do use Teams for work rarely as well, that turned the Activity Monitor yellow on its own with nothing else open.
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Then I was getting a lot of hangups. It wasn't the wonderful miracle machine people had been waxing eloquent about online for months. Learned to check out Activity Monitor application. Almost always yellow, sometimes red. Apples support says when it spends a lot of time in the yellow range, you need more memory.
I run nothing too fancy. Quicken file is always up, few tabs in Safari, messages, mail, calendar, FaceTime. Apple Support said just to continually close what I am not using. That is really annoying what was a $1000 machine in 2022. I do use Teams for work rarely as well, that turned the Activity Monitor yellow on its own with nothing else open.
The 8gb machine with 256gb drive is perfectly acceptable for the very basic of users. Anyone running chrome/firefox and multiple tabs on this will soon realize that the machine does start to get sluggish rather quickly.
For basic work use, I can tell you that running just Chrome, Microsoft teams and perhaps Outlook on this will basically remind of you of the 5400rpm main drive experience we all were so accustomed to in 2012. The thing becomes extremely sluggish, switching apps takes forever. Chrome tabs are slow to open.
Basically, if you want a machine to open a browser with a couple of tabs, this will do fine. If your usage requires significant use of browser tabs, Any work related microsoft suite items (just outlook/teams), you will start seeing this slow down and become cumbersome to use. I run the m1 optimized teams build as well.
On the upside, battery life is excellent!
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If your several docker containers are doing work, then sorry to break it to you, but a $500 mac mini was never intended to work for you anyways.