The M2 Mac mini base has 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.
The M2 Mac mini Pro base has 6 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.
If you have an app that can use those extra cores, the M2 Mini Pro could be (for CPU tasks) perhaps 50% faster.
The GPU is 16 cores in the base Pro vs 10 in the normal M2 mini, so the Pro could be 60% faster if you have an app that can use all of those cores.
For most common apps that you as a user use for everyday things, the only thing that matters is single-threaded CPU speed, and at that, the M2 and M2 Pro are exactly the same speed.
I went to the Pro because:
1. It was immediately available
2. It had 2 more TB4 ports
3. I wanted the faster GPU with 60% more GPU cores (for the almost nonexistent MacOS games)
4. The price premium was $330 or so. Not happy, but it is what it is.
The additional 2 cores of CPU didn't really figure into it for me, as I almost never have jobs that overwhelm "even" "just" 4 CPU cores.
For code-compile, multimedia encoding, and some music creation tasks, particularly in Adobe and Apple professional apps, there is a significant gain to be had there. For Chrome, Edge, Safari, Mail, and GarageBand, probably not as much...
expiredsocalguy9 posted Feb 20, 2023 08:41 PM
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256GB = 1500
512 = 3000
1TB = 6000
Pretty crummy, borderline criminal of apple to not advertise this little change and give all the youtube reviews early-access to the 1TB knowingly hiding this important fact upon launch.
The M2 Mac mini Pro base has 6 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.
If you have an app that can use those extra cores, the machine could be (for CPU tasks) perhaps 50% faster.
The GPU is 16 cores in the base Pro vs 10 in the normal M2 mini, so it could be 60% faster if you have an app that can use all of those cores.
For most common apps that you as a user use for everyday things, the only thing that matters is single-threaded CPU speed, and at that, the M2 and M2 Pro are exactly the same speed.
I went to the Pro because:
1. It was immediately available
2. It had 2 more TB4 ports
3. I wanted the faster GPU with 60% more GPU cores (for the almost nonexistent MacOS games)
4. The price premium was $330 or so. Not happy, but it is what it is.
The additional 2 cores of CPU didn't really figure into it for me, as I almost never have jobs that overwhelm "even" "just" 4 CPU cores.
For code-compile, multimedia encoding, and some music creation tasks, particularly in Adobe and Apple professional apps, there is a significant gain to be had there. For Chrome, Edge, Safari, Mail, and GarageBand, probably not as much...
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And let's not talk about depreciation. A Mac pro ,Apple still sells for over $50,000 the trade in is like $900 from Apple. I never saw a current selling pc turn to shit like that
I'm not that familiar with Mac. This is my first Mac that requires an external monitor. I thought the text was too small when I used a 2560x1440 monitor. The text was bigger and sharper when I used a 4K monitor. A 1920x1080 monitor was good too, just not as sharp as the 4K (obviously). Maybe there is an option to scale differently on the 2560x1440 monitor but I haven't messed with it.
I'm not that familiar with Mac. This is my first Mac that requires an external monitor. I thought the text was too small when I used a 2560x1440 monitor. The text was bigger and sharper when I used a 4K monitor. A 1920x1080 monitor was good too, just not as sharp as the 4K (obviously). Maybe there is an option to scale differently on the 2560x1440 monitor but I haven't messed with it.
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And let's not talk about depreciation. A Mac pro ,Apple still sells for over $50,000 the trade in is like $900 from Apple. I never saw a current selling pc turn to shit like that
Let's not pretend the $15 license key is legit.
Macs don't depreciate much. Apple has no interest in supporting the open market, but if you sell the Mac Pro on the open market you and I both you know you'll get far more than $900 for it. I saw one locally at $20k.
And we all know PCs massively depreciate the moment you buy them. Particularly no-name "clonez".
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