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Costco Members: Apple Mac mini (Late 2020): M1 CPU w/ 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
$600
$670
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Costco Wholesale has for its Members: Apple Mac mini w/ Apple M1 Chip (MGNR3LL/A, Late 2020) on sale for $599.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member kardiackidneykids for finding this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to community member kardiackidneykids for finding this deal.
Specs:
- Apple M1 Chip 8-core CPU (4 performance cores & 4 efficiency cores)
- 8GB Unified Memory
- 256GB Solid State Drive
- 8-core GPU
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 & Bluetooth 5.0
- macOS Big Sur
- Ports:
- 2x Thunderbolt / USB 4
- 2x USB A
- 1x HDMI 2
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet Port
- 1x 3.5 mm Headphone Jack
Editor's Notes
Written by qwikwit | Staff- About this deal:
- Price matches this Frontpage Deal from February that received +161 votes from the community.
- Ratings/Reviews:
- PC Mag gives the new Mac mini a 4.5/5 (excellent) rating
- "With a new lower starting price and Apple's straining-at-the-leash M1 CPU, the Mac mini is far and away the most polished, potent tiny desktop in its class."
- PC Mag gives the new Mac mini a 4.5/5 (excellent) rating
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Costco Wholesale has for its Members: Apple Mac mini w/ Apple M1 Chip (MGNR3LL/A, Late 2020) on sale for $599.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member kardiackidneykids for finding this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to community member kardiackidneykids for finding this deal.
Specs:
- Apple M1 Chip 8-core CPU (4 performance cores & 4 efficiency cores)
- 8GB Unified Memory
- 256GB Solid State Drive
- 8-core GPU
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 & Bluetooth 5.0
- macOS Big Sur
- Ports:
- 2x Thunderbolt / USB 4
- 2x USB A
- 1x HDMI 2
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet Port
- 1x 3.5 mm Headphone Jack
Editor's Notes
Written by qwikwit | Staff- About this deal:
- Price matches this Frontpage Deal from February that received +161 votes from the community.
- Ratings/Reviews:
- PC Mag gives the new Mac mini a 4.5/5 (excellent) rating
- "With a new lower starting price and Apple's straining-at-the-leash M1 CPU, the Mac mini is far and away the most polished, potent tiny desktop in its class."
- PC Mag gives the new Mac mini a 4.5/5 (excellent) rating
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The ones who have never used it and are just guessing say it isn't enough.
Now, everything is soldered, so upgrades are impossible. To get 16 or 32 MB of RAM or a bigger SSD, you need to pay 3 times the price up front of what upgrades would cost for the same configuration, even if you don't realize the need now.
No thanks, Apple.
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So, if you can buy a reasonable Intel machine say an i5 with upgradable/replacable storage and memory, you can get the same experience. I tried it side by side with a clone configuration on an Intel Hackintosh. Even with a slower SSD, once the apps get into the SSD cache, the difference disappears.
The M1 is a better chip, no doubt but its capability is not expressed in anything you would do with just 8 GB of memory.
In fact, the M1 was significantly slower doing video transcoding with Handbrake because the SSD on the M1 mini doesn't do well with sustained reads and writes in parallel. And this was in a 16GB Mini. So, the M1 power wasn't utilized fully.
So, it is not a given that M1 will be faster for your applications. And the current downsides for buying an M1 far outweigh the benefits unless bragging rights are all you are looking for. This is why I returned it.
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People can repeat the above easily if they have the ability to set up the careful side by side comparison like I did.
Thankfully, I had an old backup. And a Windows machine. I had to use that, along with MacDrive, to rescue my recent data and restore it to Mojave. That's just wrong. It is impossible to restore an entire image with Big Sur or specific files, unlike being a breeze with OS X.
"Mac Vista" is NOT ready for prime time. Not even close. It's like a Tesla with Ford Pinto idiot lights. Replete with a figurative exploding gas tank. When it goes bad, it's a disaster.
I also don't know what kind of high res photos you are viewing but that seems like a very specific use case. Especially to view 40+ tabs at a time. That just sounds plain inefficient.
You even said yourself it's plenty for most people. I only stated it was more than adequate for me and I wouldn't expect it to be a problem for most home users
I mean the images weren't that high res, I just mean they weren't tiny. The websites involved were West Elm, CB2, and a handful of other modern furniture sites.
The use case isn't that weird, many if not most power users open a ton of tabs at the same time because the nature of web browsing and information itself is tangential, you're consuming a thread of information, and within in ( this is literally why it's called the web ) are 0-infinity sub-trajectories you can branch out onto, from clicking embedded links to command + T-ing to Google a new term or concept.
That all said I apologize for not reading your comment better, even if I still kind of disagree w/ it. imo 8GB is definitely trash, but if you're committed to OS X it's something that's, for many people, probably *most* of the people commenting on this deal including myself, a trade-off we're willing to make to get the latest-ish Apple hardware for a discounted price.
To be clear, 8GB is total trash in 2021, and definitely just Apple sliding its greasy little penis into our wallets' bodies while holding eye contact, but eh, it is what it is. It's pretty, prestigious trash. <3
Images and video have the biggest footprints, try loading up 40 unique pages across a handful of domains for furniture on a high-res screen, I can crash Safari and even OS X on an m1 mac mini effortlessly this way. It probably won't take the whole 40..
For comparison: I still have a 2011 Mac mini that works perfectly fine with an older version of macOS as a home server and still can be used for other tasks such as web browsing, emails, light processing, etc.
I have a corporate issued 2017 MacBook Pro that can handle whatever I toss at it with 8GB of memory and integrated Intel graphics. I'll admit it runs warm if I need to do anything intensive but I tend to offload heavy graphical work to an external Blackmagic eGPU.
I have two M1 related Mac's (Air and mini) that both have 16GB's of memory that blow through anything I toss at them and will clearly work well into the future.
So I'm just trying to understand how your Mac was outlasted by a budget laptop when basic Mac's can last for a decade or more without any problem.
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I'm just used to a smoother experience. I can say this owning the M1 Mac Mini for 4 months+, a windows laptop with 16gb and a window desktop with 32gb (running 8th gen i7 cpu which is supposedly slower than the M1 according to benchmark) . The M1 is the only one with occasional hiccups for the exact same user habit.
Basically I got sold on the 16gb because 5 years it's the sweet spot to upgrade. Heck my 2014 hp laptop with i74700hq still kicks some major ass and it's old af.It boots up in literally 30 seconds and does everything my $2k pc can do EXCEPT render…
At 600 bucks for this thing seems like a steal given the build quality and the future proof aesthetics. Common…. It's a steal but not future proof??? Who knows. In my case I use a laptop as a chrome book basically. Give me that ram!
IMHO just buy the 16gb…
It's technically overpriced even at this price point imo but if you want a NEW, current-gen mac this is by far the least you can get away with spending for that, so in that sense it's a good deal.
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1. don't know anything about anything, just care if it works.
-no complaints, no issues, great price, thumbs up.
2. think they know everything.
-complaints and spec comparison all the time on why their opinion is absolute. use as many technical terms as possible to prove they really know.
3. know enough to be dangerous.
-try to steal piece meal a bunch of opinions together and create a creative opinion
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