Those who received the m2 mac mini normal version (16g, 512g), can anyone share their feedback on fan noise under normal use and under stress test? thanks
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how silent is the normal m2 mac mini?
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how many monitors did you connect to the mac mini? could you do some stress test like exporting and rendering larger 4k files/x265 and all that. i would love to hear your feedback!
I have a non-pro M2 mini (24GB/1TB) and it's dead silent, even throughout the entire initial setup, copying tons of data, downloading iCloud data, installing 50+ apps, and throughout the entire Ventura 13.2 update. Either the fan never turned on, or it's running at such a low speed that I cannot hear it. I put my ear very close to the mini and still could not hear anything.
I may buy that configuration (mini non-Pro M2, with 24GB/1TB). What "heavy duty stuff" are you usually doing on your Mac? I'm still wondering if I should buy the Pro version instead, but the cost rises too fast for my taste, and it may end to be overkill for what I do.
In 25 years, I’ve never used any computer that was overkill, and some of them were top spec. I wished all of them were faster all too soon.
Guys with $52K maxed out Mac Pros are still waiting and waiting and waiting for projects
By overkill, I mean that the computer may have too much *costly* memory and/or processor power for what I do with it. It's silly to give Apple a lot of money for nothing. What's the point of buying a super fast car that could go 340m/s, when you never roll above 100km/hr?
I have a non-pro M2 Mini, 16gb, 1tb, I got it 2 days ago and it has been running silent. The temperatures run 31c to 34c and the fan runs at 1700rpm.
The most I've pushed it so far was the Migration Assistant, transferred about 300gb of data from backup of my old system, took about 15 minutes to complete, fan never made any noise.
I have a curiosity to ask, I'm getting lost with all these benchmarks.
Can you tell me for sure the M2 (Non Pro) 16GB/512GB configuration how much it totals in Geekbench 5 in Single Core
and Multi-Core?
Let me explain, I would like to understand if there are improvements with the RAM and SSD upgrade compared to what is stated here https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-2023-8c-cpu (base model).
@David8 Can you please test also your configuration?
Can you tell me for sure the M2 (Non Pro) 16GB/512GB configuration how much it totals in Geekbench 5 in Single Core
and Multi-Core?
Let me explain, I would like to understand if there are improvements with the RAM and SSD upgrade compared to what is stated here https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-2023-8c-cpu (base model).
@David8 Can you please test also your configuration?
There shouldn't be any significant variation. The test is designed to test the cpu, but doesn't run long enough, nor is intense enough to stress the machine until it starts paging out data to ram.
I have several MacBooks and gave my 5K 27" iMac away, so the Mac mini is my new 'desktop Mac' which I primarily use to work from home and or web browsing, media consumption, etc. So I use MS Office apps, Teams, Zoom, Remote Desktop, tons of Google tabs, AppleTV, Apple Arcade and so on.
Everything has been super fast and snappy with plenty of RAM and storage (the 1TB SSD speed is in the 3,000/MBs range). Also, the mini itself has been running cool (both in temps and to the touch) and quiet since I got it. The fans never spin higher than minimal which is inaudible to my ears.
Mac mini M2 (non-Pro) is as silent as the M1 was, I can't tell if it's on or off. I was testing it with Handbrake which uses all CPU cores to the max.
temps dropped immediately after removing the bottom cover (temps with the cover on are shown by the little black bars in the graph). the fan never ran higher than approx. 1700 RPM
temps dropped immediately after removing the bottom cover (temps with the cover on are shown by the little black bars in the graph). the fan never ran higher than approx. 1700 RPM
I bought this spec also for my work computer. I’ve had it since the beginning of the month and only in the initial setup did it get warm but I don’t recall the fan ever coming on. Since then the mini has always been cold to the touch even with multiple Chrome tabs open and the use of Music, Photoshop, Excel and Outlook daily.
Compared to my 2018 mini the M2 start up is a lot faster, so much so that I don’t even see the apple loading screen.