If you take another video, can you position the tablet far, very near and behind the mini while measuring the sound? (while measuring db). And as I said before, if you turn off the mini when the tablet (db measurement) is very close, we will measure the sound change.
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So how silent is the M2 Pro Mac Mini?
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I‘ll try to do it soon. Hard to do silent stuff like measuring noise levels with kids at home 😅
We did a weekend project of creating a YouTube video. Reviewing The M2 Pro Mac Mini. Video covers performance; Fan noise and lack thereof is discussed toward the end of the video. Might even get a laugh or two.
Video covers Mac Mini Pro 12 CPU 19 GPU 32 GB RAM and 1TB hard drive.
Know the presenter would really appreciate the view.
Video covers Mac Mini Pro 12 CPU 19 GPU 32 GB RAM and 1TB hard drive.
Know the presenter would really appreciate the view.
Hi, got mine since 3 or 4 days. Mac mini M2 pro 12cpu/19gpu 32go/1To.
At idle, absolutely inaudible, as my previous Mac mini M1 (fan at 1700rpm), cpu temp is 27° celsius (room at 19,5* celsius)
But after 30/40 mins playing Starcraft 2@1440p, cpu temp is 55°, but still no fan noise as fan still at 1700rpm.
I have no hard workload (just need more than 16 or 24 Go ram), so I never heard the Mac mini (located at nearly 50cm from me)
At idle, absolutely inaudible, as my previous Mac mini M1 (fan at 1700rpm), cpu temp is 27° celsius (room at 19,5* celsius)
But after 30/40 mins playing Starcraft 2@1440p, cpu temp is 55°, but still no fan noise as fan still at 1700rpm.
I have no hard workload (just need more than 16 or 24 Go ram), so I never heard the Mac mini (located at nearly 50cm from me)
M2 Pro, 10c, 16gb/1TB here. During sustained CPU intensive tasks the mini has remained completely silent for me, and that’s in a quiet room sitting at a normal distance from the desk. I have very tuned hearing.
I owned an M1 mini before this and I would say that the noise (or lack of) is virtually the same, only the M2 Pro gets a little warmer which is perfectly fine.
I’m mainly a Photoshop and Lightroom user (300+mb medium format images), and all I can say is that if you’re in two minds then don’t hesitate - it absolutely flies!
I owned an M1 mini before this and I would say that the noise (or lack of) is virtually the same, only the M2 Pro gets a little warmer which is perfectly fine.
I’m mainly a Photoshop and Lightroom user (300+mb medium format images), and all I can say is that if you’re in two minds then don’t hesitate - it absolutely flies!
People have gotten spoiled using silent computers. No computer was silent 20 years or so ago- and nobody complained
You don't know you need something until you use it. I prefer mac because of the silence. I think silence increases productivity.
Exactly.
People complained when we had Intel Macs that sounded like an airport runway, and now we have chips that sip power and people complain they’re not ‘silent’ enough! You couldn’t make it up.
I think we should just be thankful that Apple is putting a greater focus on performance and utility rather than design for design’s sake.
People didn't also didn't use computers the same way and in the same environments as 20 years ago. These kinds of arguments are always bad. You can use them to argue against any kind of progress that has ever happened.
Well, I complained. I used to have all sorts of Windows-based combinations of motherboards, CPUs, harddrives, PSUs, cabinets and so on. They always got noisy, and it was always extremely annoying (to my sensitive ears), especially when trying to concentrate on composing. And I don't know about spoiled. My current Mac mini M1 is the only machine that CONSISTENTLY runs dead silent AND is a processing powerhouse. It's a dream machine, except it needs around 30-50% more power to truly handle all tasks I throw at it – and that's why the M2 Pro really hits the perfect spot relative to my needs – given that it's close to being as silent as the M1.
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I disagree. Where I come from, we didn’t like noisy computers 30 years ago. People definitely complained about the noisy G5 towers from 20 years ago.
You must be old like me Steve AustinHi there, Jaime Sommers.
Since the release of the M1 version I am still wondering why they did not switch to USB-C Power Delivery for the Mini. The total power draw should be less than 100 Watt even for the M2 Pro model. This would even allow to run the Mini without an additional power supply when running on a Studio Display.
How sweet. Tec YouTuber next gen!
I will get my Mini M2 Pro next week. It will be a nearly maxed out powerful machine, so fan noise will be very very veeeerrry interesting. I'll let you know.
Yes, do let us know. Thanks
Will be very interesting to hear your experiences. So far, it seems that the base M2 Pro model (10 cpu cores, 16 gb ram, 512 gb ssd) runs silent under the specific workloads reported by users.
Same as the M1 mini. I can’t hear it at its lowest speed from 1m distance. Perhaps there was something wrong with the fan assembly in your M2 Pro mini?
I started out with an Atari ST and that was pretty silent
or do you prefer the sound of datasettes?
(though you could of course silence the latter)
Yes, I had probably a bad sample. The fan made a slightly rattling sound which I could even hear at 1m distance.
At that time (Spectrum ZX, Amstrad, Commodore) I remember that those sounds were like being in heaven!