Anyone can purchase from the Apple Edu Store. One simply googles "Apple Edu Store", then purchases goods from the store and picks it up or has the goods shipped normally. There is no verification currently. Apple's stated qualifications are to be a teacher, a student in college, or a member of several other education-facing groups.
Apple's SSD "maximum" speeds on the new M2 Mini is as follows:
1500MB/s for 256GB mini; 3000MB/s for 512GB/1TB mini.
3000MB/s for 512GB mini Pro; 6000 MB/s for 1TB++ mini Pro.
And for the vast, vast majority, since random access speed is vastly more important than maximum transfer speeds, none of this matters at all; random access speeds are similar on all models, and are faster than the M1 models before these. If you have a day job where you copy data from the internal drive to an external Thunderbolt 4 high-speed SSD, and you do that 8x5 as part of a job, all day every day, look at the 1TB Pro models. Otherwise, ignore all of this; it simply doesn't matter.
Compared to the previous gen M1 mini, the M2 mini is perhaps 10-15% faster in single core operations and about the same in multicore operations. The graphics operations, for some things, can be up to 40% faster, a significant jump, which is useful in games and in some video and ML applications that use the GPU cores.
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I don't qualify for the education discount at this time. There have also been reports of some performance issues with the M2 with lower amounts of RAM/HD space.
I don't qualify for the education discount at this time. There have also been reports of some performance issues with the M2 with lower amounts of RAM/HD space.
Also performance issues...nope. Even the $512gb is a WAY better deal for the extra
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Also performance issues...nope. Even the $512gb is a WAY better deal for the extra
Barring that, find other things to worry about. The M2 CPU speed upgrade, addition of ProRes encoder, and 40% faster GPU upgrade are all more than worth the $30 upcharge. Plus you get a 2.5 year newer model.
Barring that, find other things to worry about. The M2 CPU speed upgrade, addition of ProRes encoder, and 40% faster GPU upgrade are all more than worth the $30 upcharge. Plus you get a 2.5 year newer model.
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Also performance issues...nope. Even the $512gb is a WAY better deal for the extra
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