How is Apple M4 Mac Mini for Programming - AI - Coding - React JS

[@CodexCommunity]

Update: * Front ports are actually 2x USB-C 10GBps and Back ports are Thunderbolt 4

[@designrama68]

Only the middle port in the back is tdu4

[@yashveerthakur7265]

@@designrama68 all 3 in the back are thunderbolt 4

[@Sam-wg6ge]

Correction: the front are USB's 3.2 not thunderbolt

[@podunkis]

Just noticed the M4 Mini at my local MicroCenter for $499, or $475 on my MC credit card. There's simply no competition at that price.

[@yourordinaryduck929]

how the fuck. in croatia i have to pay 800 dollars for it.

[@podunkis]

@@yourordinaryduck929 MicroCenter often has good prices on the Mac hardware, but the *really* good deals tend to sell out pretty quickly. The base M4 Minis sold out in a couple of days and haven't been in stock since then. Now the best deal is an M4 Mini with the 512 GB SSD for $684, but keep in mind that prices in the US don't include sales tax. In my area this is usually between 9% and 10%, which gets added to the sales price. We're just used to comparing prices without tax. Unfortunately sales taxes have risen a lot over time from 4% when I was a kid to nearly 10% now. Gotta cover the tax cuts to the rich somehow, right?

[@bab1671]

Great video. One minor correctiion - the front USB ports are not Thunderbolt. Specs are: USB-C ports with support for USB 3 (up to 10Gb/s).

[@Eli-s7d]

Not a lot of programming in a video about programming. Programmers want their inner loop to be as fast as possible. So I'd probably want test like... how fast can I build some giant C++ project or something.

[@dennisvillamor2806]

great video, we need more videos that show more than just benchmark charts and performance in video editing and content creation

[@thabangcreates]

unboxing was super clean! 👌👌👌

[@CodexCommunity]

awesome, spent hours trying to recreate that apple trailer like animated sequence!

[@kittu0077]

Really helpful, thanks for the update on RAM useage on coding, not all youtubers add this aspect from a programmers side. Awesome video

[@meaningbread15]

right off at the beginning i see that unboxing animation. and it's soooooo well done brother!

[@s-code-b]

This is an outstandingly insightful review: max info & zero fuss.

[@edwardkoh818]

1:48 I faced the same issue during first setup lol I ended up learning to navigate with voice-over keyboard shortcut navigation to pair my MX. It works.

[@eduardolima5431]

How is it running both simulators android and ios? Does it run smoothly?

[@TropicalTaquito]

I’ve been waiting for a video like this. Thank you.

[@khangvutien2538]

I liked and I subscribed😉 Impressed by your visualization of the Vision Pro. Your examples of using Bolt.new is exactly what Im considering to do, with oTToDev. I’m also using XCode with Flutter so your examples fit exactly my work style. Thanks for the hint of 24 GB RAM. Questions: 1. What do you think of the M4 pro Mini? 2. Does it make sense to add aTn external Thunderbolt 5 SSD instead of upgrading the internal one? 3. What 27” screen are you using?

[@zbyszeklupikaszapl3280]

I've just waiting for such a video, thank you very much! Try to cummulate the power of your M4 Macs and Nvidia PC with EXO (exolabs) using all your thunderbolt ports. That would be really powerful team. Could you make the video about it?

[@VolodymyrMoon]

Finally review for development, thx

[@thelaitas]

Have you tried running android and ios simultaneously ? This would make or break my decision to finally get a mac.

[@Unizuka]

the stop motion was a chefs kiss, super well done.

[@kamaboko1]

The 32GB memory ceiling for the base M4 is ridiculous. I'd pick one up if it had a 64GB option.

[@Duge6124]

I was hoping you would do mobile dev and emulation as that is usually the most demanding tasks

[@anashashim]

8:42 Did I just hear the 4090 doesn't perform as well?! Wow, really impressive for the Mac Mini!

[@harishmoghe509]

M4 Pro chip is needed for react / javascript / swift projects ?

[@jamesm7498]

Great video.Would be cool future videos to please display metric widgets to provide more granular information on system usage across the board(e.g network,disk usage etc).

[@raaz9662]

Very good demo of LLMs and other programming tools. It's a very good load test for mac mini m4

[@thangnguyenchi6032]

Thank a lot, i'm fvcking finding m4 for coding.. :)))

[@ElectricVRoom]

kudos for the extra video work

[@unboxordinary]

Can you please try to run flux models on this base?

[@magxbeats]

Hi can you please suggest recommended system config for generative ai development?

[@tibimutasunta2132]

I’d say more ram but stay at 256 storage and just buy an external storage💯👍👍👍

[@tehshingen]

That’s my planned route too

[@JayzBeerz]

I'm running the base M4 Mac Mini with an external 4TB NVME SSD. Works great.

[@nextentrepreneur9288]

@@JayzBeerz That's a smart setup!

[@JayzBeerz]

@@nextentrepreneur9288yes thank you. 🙏

[@sukhgill454]

Catch is 24 GB RAM start with 512 GB storage anyways.

[@bugged1212]

I am using it as a server that serves over 30k requests an hour while it sits in a corner on my desk. F U AWS.

[@ysinghs]

How do you go about doing this? Don’t docker run a vm on Mac? Unless you’re not using docker

[@bugged1212]

@@ysinghs Why not? Docker runs anything and the power consumption on an M4 is minimal. Works great actually.

[@ysinghs]

@@bugged1212 It does for sure. I’m a fan of the power band too. But what I meant was you’d be able to pull more performance off without the overhead on a VM, which docker sort of forces on you when using a mac. A Linux box might’ve been better for a server deployment. Especially if you’re doing 30k req/hr

[@bugged1212]

No way around using linux on an M4, overhead is negligible, mostly less than 12 watts consumed which is similar to a raspberry pi 5 running at max cpu.

[@nextentrepreneur9288]

Do your apps have that much traffic, or is that a number you got from benchmarking your server?

[@KaranKumar-ee6rn]

Can this run on any power bank?

[@pushkarshah.01]

Can you please check if there is a way I can run a local code Helping AI on this mac and make it available to everyone on my local network keeping context of different chats simultaneously?

[@user110-yr2hf]

Does it get hot or loud fan?

[@toolbox-najamalataistrojev9113]

Mx master can be connected via bluetooth?

[@footloose2550]

Yes

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

I forwarded your video link to my CEO. I hope she will like it.

[@numberl6]

great visuals for the intro!! i even like the rough edges where the cutout is not quite perfect!

[@romans7319]

You can upgrade the ssd yourself in this mac

[@beastthegreat963]

can we turn off the apple intelligence if we require RAM for virtualization just in case to save up on resources

[@victorbjorklund]

Can it center a div?

[@tsenohebot4853]

Have to disagree on storage, I think sticking with 256 and getting an external ssd is cheaper.

[@EmiExz]

3:18 well that is not 256GB storage :(

[@acizko92]

The difference is SSD speed but we will not notice it

[@BarringtonRobinsonII]

How is the CUDA support ? Oh .

[@tezz7523]

can i do heavy web browsing on this base modle ike 30 to 40 tab on crome without solowness

[@AutisticCuriosity]

If your going to buy storage and Ram then you might as well say no the base model is not acceptable and you may as well buy a pro version.

[@footloose2550]

Windows 11 Pro runs flawlessly on parallels

[@ps3301]

Apple GPU can't be used to run llm because there is no cuda equivalent. It is sad that apple doesnt work with Nvidia for ai workload

[@kdta91]

Ollama if you’re planning on running local llm.

[@deckyfx2188]

What about X-Code + iOS Sim + Android Studio + Android Sim, a most common case for React Native developer

[@rockonhero3611]

0:34 i get the idea. It’s cool to do, but oh my god is that a distraction from you talking… very distracting

[@tubakisan]

If you need ram for vmware, you might as well use that money to buy a windows mini-pc.

[@Leandro-yt8wo]

does anyone know if it's possible to use an imac m1 as a monitor for a mac mini?

[@glennthompson1971]

luna display? duet?

[@Leandro-yt8wo]

@@glennthompson1971 is an option, but I wanted something simpler and more direct, like some kind of cable

[@BillyLuna]

New sub here. Great channel. Would you be so kind as to answer a few questions. I mostly use Final Cut Pro & Photoshop to create videos on my Billy Luna Crime Stories YT channel. I am working in 1080p, but plan to start working in 4k. Currently I am Using a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD (2TB & 4TB) to edit off whilst using FCP. I like to use Final Cut Pro, Photoshop and 40 web browser tabs open simultaneously. 1) For my needs, which exact configuration of the new M4 Mac Mini should I get? (Pro or no, RAM, SSD) These are the two configurations that I have been mulling: $1,079.00 Apple M4 chip with 10‑core CPU, 10‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine 32GB unified memory Or $1,799.00 512GB SSD storage Apple M4 Pro chip with 12‑core CPU, 16‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine 48GB unified memory 512GB SSD storage 2) Is there any speed or performance advantage in going with a 1 TB SSD vs 512? 3) Do I need to worry about fan noise when I’m recording on camera video or voice over?

[@harvester71]

So weird I'm looking at the same two configurations and can't decide, I have a similar use case too? I know the 512gb is faster than 256, not sure about the 1tb, I would get 512 and get an external for more space

[@rockonhero3611]

You basically wanna do everything with an entry level machine. Very hard to follow that reasoning. And yet, anything that was not obviously impossible did the entry level mac at least decent. Given that your workload required a 3000$ plus macbook pro in 2019 we are pretty well off today.

[@user-gn1fe8yv6x]

Why don't you show the RAM usage when having all of those tools running? 😉

[@coderaditya]

You look like Mr beast

[@ExtraCrispy]

you didn't test much actual coding, esp how fast it runs vs other pc's for npm etc every pc besides Apple allows connecting multiple displays, only Apple limits it artificially LLM use is crippled by the ver slow load times and no Cuda Apple's keyboard and mouse suck - which is why are you using a Logitech mouse, but you don't seem to be doing much coding with that terrible keyboard there's still a huge Appple tax for minor upgrades - $400 extra for more ram/storage is a ripoff. its a great little pc for everyday use and its great for video editing. not sure about coding.

[@nick066hu]

I never understood how a 'coder' is OK with that tiny keyboard made for influencer barbies. just because that that palm-sized thing looks cool on a two-metre table? If there is something really requiring a full size keyboard, it is coding. Have you perhaps ever heard of function keys, one key copy/paste, and keyboard shortcut combinations not requiring your toes ? you can't imagine how much more efficient and ergonomic it is

[@judgegroovyman]

I can see why someone like you wouldnt understand

[@b5stephen]

Nope, I code on my MacBook’s built in keyboard all day for work. Works perfectly fine for me though I get why many people prefer something more.

[@nick066hu]

@@b5stephen Ok, ...at least on an external monitor? ...the other thing I don't understand is working on a tiny screen

[@b5stephen]

@ haha yes, I’m an external screen user for sure.

[@kdta91]

More of preference. I ditched my full size keyboard with a 60 key one.

[@klmbss]

Бесполезно

[@subcreber349]

Is it good for cyber security student?