expired
Costco Members: Apple Mac mini (Late 2020): M1 CPU w/ 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
$600
$670
10% off
+ Free Shippingat Costco Wholesale
Missed This Deal? Get alerts when similar deals are posted.
+ Free Shippingat Costco WholesaleDeal Details
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
Community Notes
About the Poster
Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
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
Community Voting
Deal
Score
+174
Good Deal
Bad Deal
Top Comments
POLL
How many browser tabs do you keep open?
"Like" for 10 or less
"Funny" for 11 to 20
"Helpful" for 21 and above
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.
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!
451 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Modern OSes hang on to memory used by app code that have exited so you can start them up faster next time. Those can be allocated to other apps if needed as quickly as free memory because nothing needs to be written back. But if those apps come back up, they start much more quickly as nothing needs to be read from slower secondary storage. In other words, part of memory acts as a page cache even for inactive apps. The more memory you have, more they can do this.
If the system uses the same memory for graphics like AMD or the M1 chip then you need a bit more than others that don't.
Problem with 8GB is that at least 6Gb+ is not unusual for a set of currently running apps to be holding and so it doesn't leave much for the "cache". 16Gb is the sweet spot right now for this purpose. Above 16Gb is only needed if you have specific uses cases, like running multiple VMs, massively parallel media processing, etc.
With that said, the good news for those with lower amounts of RAM is that modern PCIe NVME drives are quick enough where there isn't an enormous drop off in performance as in the past when going from system memory to a swap file on a HDD, although they are definitely slower than system RAM.
The ones who have never used it and are just guessing say it isn't enough.
You can disagree with the philosophy but a dodo bird argument isn't a valid one.
If you believe that, you are a true fanboy who gladly drank the Kool-Aid.
Surprise! It's all about the cash: 2016 began "the long-foreseen future in which its computers are disposable." - https://www.vice.com/en/article/x...-computers
"Common problems [a 3rd party Apple repair tech] sees like fried sticks of RAM, computers without hard drives (because they were removed by recyclers), and bad Wi-Fi chips (also integrated on the newest MacBook Pro) are easily repairable on older MacBooks and MacBook Pros. On new ones, these problems are potential death sentences."
And if it's so secure, how could I access the hidden files I couldn't see on Big Sur via opening the backup drive with Windows?
Surprise! It's all about the cash: 2016 began "the long-foreseen future in which its computers are disposable." - https://www.vice.com/en/article/x...-computers
"Common problems [a 3rd party Apple repair tech] sees like fried sticks of RAM, computers without hard drives (because they were removed by recyclers), and bad Wi-Fi chips (also integrated on the newest MacBook Pro) are easily repairable on older MacBooks and MacBook Pros. On new ones, these problems are potential death sentences."
And if it's so secure, how could I access the hidden files I couldn't see on Big Sur via opening the backup drive with Windows?
I am just pointing out your incorrect and non-factual statements and you keep going off on tangents with very little understanding of what is going on. It is not what one believes. Clearly what you believe has no basis in reality.
1. CCC can create bootable clones of Big Sur contary to what you claimed and described in the very link you posted that you seem unable to understand. So, there is no Big Sur conspiracy.
2. The security of Big Sur is not the hidden files (hint: they are not hidden to make it secure just like all OSes since the 70s have had hidden files but not for security). The lack of basic knowledge is just astounding. What it prevents is a compromised OS installation that can then cause havoc with whatever you do with it. To achieve this, only Apple utilities can be used to create a Big Sur image that can be booted. So, the current version of CCC does this.
Apple business model is aggressively predatory on its user base. Not disputing that but spreading ignorant and non-factual indormation on the technical aspects just to rant at Apple is just dumb. And people who point that out aren't fanbois. The actual fanbois are very upset with me for what I have posted earlier in this thread.
I am done responding to your tangential rants. This is getting too far off from the deal.
I use the 16GB Mac version though
With that said, the good news for those with lower amounts of RAM is that modern PCIe NVME drives are quick enough where there isn't an enormous drop off in performance as in the past when going from system memory to a swap file on a HDD, although they are definitely slower than system RAM.
Pointing out that more memory has advantages even when typical usage doesn't go above it since a lot of people here have been using as a justification for 8GB.
Otherwise, we agree on 16GB being a safer bet for current day machines.
I use the 16GB Mac version though
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
I am just pointing out your incorrect and non-factual statements and you keep going off on tangents with very little understanding of what is going on. It is not what one believes. Clearly what you believe has no basis in reality.
1. CCC can create bootable clones of Big Sur contary to what you claimed and described in the very link you posted that you seem unable to understand. So, there is no Big Sur conspiracy.
2. The security of Big Sur is not the hidden files (hint: they are not hidden to make it secure just like all OSes since the 70s have had hidden files but not for security). The lack of basic knowledge is just astounding. What it prevents is a compromised OS installation that can then cause havoc with whatever you do with it. To achieve this, only Apple utilities can be used to create a Big Sur image that can be booted. So, the current version of CCC does this.
Apple business model is aggressively predatory on its user base. Not disputing that but spreading ignorant and non-factual indormation on the technical aspects just to rant at Apple is just dumb. And people who point that out aren't fanbois. The actual fanbois are very upset with me for what I have posted earlier in this thread.
I am done responding to your tangential rants. This is getting too far off from the deal.
So NO, I won't recommend 8 GB model unless all you need is a simple computer for just occasional use.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank
POLL
How many browser tabs do you keep open?
"Like" for 10 or less
"Funny" for 11 to 20
"Helpful" for 21 and above
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!