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... are there any other M4 Mac Mini users here? I'm LOViNG mine - and have done a few sponsored product videos on accessories on my YT channel...
... are there any other M4 Mac Mini users here? I'm LOViNG mine - and
have done a few sponsored product videos on accessories on my YT channel...
If anyone here would like the veritcal NVME hub, I'm willing to offer it to any BBS user who has an M4 Mac Mini. :P
... are there any other M4 Mac Mini users here? I'm LOViNG mine - and have done a few sponsored product videos on accessories on my YT channel...
Not I, though I am seriously tempted to get one as my daily driver PC.
My work laptop died late last year after myriad issues with win 11, WSL and Docker, all of which I needed to do my job. I manged to get a M3 Macbook pro as a replacement.... OMG it is so much better. Stuff just works! And its faster and actually portable.
Thats one thing I don't quite have my head around with these Mac Mini's. The storage expansion options. Buying one with a large SSD built-in is super pricy, how well does these NVEM hubs work with a Mac Mini & MacOS?
Also what options have you got for using large arrays of spinning rust i.e. RAID with normal HDDs?
Anyhow glad you are loving yours, might be getting one myself once life has calmed down and a few other major financial things are out of the
way.
I bought a used M4 Mac Mini a while ago, with the intention of trying to use Mac OS 9.x on it. I had also bought a hard drive for it from eBay that was already set up to dual-boot OS X and OS 9, and also bought a
RAM upgrade for it. In the past, I had opened up a Mac Mini to do
similar upgrades myself (though that was with an Intel Mac Mini), so I thought I could handle doing the same for the M4. I got it open, put
the larger RAM module in, and swapped the hard drive, but since then, it has been failing to boot. It starts up but shows the ? icon that it doesn't recognize the drive. I tried swapping the original hard drive back in, but it's still showing the ? boot icon. I'm not sure what's happening with it, but I've been meaning to try to find a place that can repair it. I seem to recall emailing Computer Renaissance in my area
here (maybe you've heard of them, since you're in Oregon?) and I think they said they can repair it, so I thought of taking it there.
... are there any other M4 Mac Mini users here? I'm LOViNG mine - and
have done a few sponsored product videos on accessories on my YT channel...
I bought a used M4 Mac Mini a while ago, with the intention of trying to
LOL - are you sure it was a new m4 mac mini??
At any rate - if you'd like this hub I could deliver it to YOU. :P Portland, FTW!
kirkspragg wrote to paulie420 <=-
Also what options have you got for using large arrays of spinning rust i.e. RAID with normal HDDs?
paulie420 wrote to kirkspragg <=-
Dude - for the $499 student discount, its one of the best PCs that you
can buy right now... it is ON FUEGO; seriously, it performs above its weight class and Apple doesn't check the student discount - at $499,
its the best compute you can buy right now...
Just put in a new MacMini M4, and in the next few days an RAID 0/1 dock arrives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrDfsgXEQU
Agree that these inexpensive very small MacMinis are awesome!
At any rate - if you'd like this hub I could deliver it to YOU. :P Portland, FTW!
What hub?
Dude - for the $499 student discount, its one of the best PCs that yo can buy right now... it is ON FUEGO
Dang - my son just graduated. I wonder if he still has an active campus
email?
The OP post was offering my M4 Mac Mini vertical hub (new) to anyone who needed it...
I bought a used M4 Mac Mini a while ago, with the intention of trying
LOL - are you sure it was a new m4 mac mini??
No; as I said, it was used.
I bought a used M4 Mac Mini a while ago, with the intention of trying
LOL - are you sure it was a new m4 mac mini??
No; as I said, it was used.
I think you're thinking of Mac Mini G4. As in, the last PowerPC Mac Mini.
M4 is the modern Apple Silicon, ARM based chip.
:)
Dude - for the $499 student discount, its one of the best PCs that you
can buy right now... it is ON FUEGO; seriously, it performs above its weight class and Apple doesn't check the student discount - at $499, its the best compute you can buy right now...
So - the USB-3 hubs are around 1000mbps/sec. Thunderbolt 4 is even faster around 3000mbps/sec - for the M4 Mac Mini PRO Thunderbolt 5 is even m0re fast....
I love it. Buy one - you'll be happy.
Not a Mac option, but I picked up a Synology chassis for cheap a while
back and populated it with 5 2TB drives I had laying around - 2 from a
desktop that had mirrored drives, 2 I'd shucked from external cases,
and one spare for my desktop system.
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
No need - Apple doesn't check the student discount... they just ship. HOWEVER, the M4 Mac Mini can sometimes be found @ MicroCenter for $449 even!!!
We just got a MicroCenter in Santa Clara. It's been a long drought since Fry's Electronics closed down.
I bought a used M4 Mac Mini a while ago, with the intention of trying to
LOL - are you sure it was a new m4 mac mini??
No need - Apple doesn't check the student discount... they just ship. HOWEVER, the M4 Mac Mini can sometimes be found @ MicroCenter for $44 even!!!
We just got a MicroCenter in Santa Clara. It's been a long drought since Fry's Electronics closed down.
buy right now... it is ON FUEGO...
buy right now... it is ON FUEGO...
Do you have a link to this? Couldn't find a reference to it on Google, except as a Spanish word.
No need - Apple doesn't check the student discount... they just ship. HOWEVER, the M4 Mac Mini can sometimes be found @ MicroCenter for $449 even!!!
HOWEVER, the M4 Mac Mini can sometimes be found @ MicroCenter for $449 even!!!
I don't have a mac mini, but my daily driver is a M3 MacBook Air. I have to say it's by far the best machine I've ever used. It's quiet, wicked fast, light, and has amazing battery life. I went Air over Pro since I don't like the air vents on the left and right side bottom on the pro, those seem to cut my hand when I'm carrying the laptop.
I've heard good reviews of Apple's M* machines. If someone isn't a big fan of MacOS though, I wonder if it would make sense (or if it's even feasible) to install another OS on them, such as a Linux distro?
I've heard good reviews of Apple's M* machines. If someone isn't a big fan of MacOS though, I wonder if it would make sense (or if it's even feasible) to install another OS on them, such as a Linux distro?
I've heard good reviews of Apple's M* machines. If someone isn't a big
fan of MacOS though, I wonder if it would make sense (or if it's even
feasible) to install another OS on them, such as a Linux distro?
Well - the Asanti (Ashanti??) dev team recently dove off the political bridge and said they weren't gonna work on the project anym0re - so...
Sorry, but Apple did a slamdunk w/ their Apple Silicone move. IMO, no Linux project is even close to unleashing the full potential of that architecture - and it will NEVER be on par IMO.... but I hope I'm wrong!
So much more all the BS woke FOSS issues. Fun times.
paulie420 wrote to Nightfox <=-
Well - the Asanti (Ashanti??) dev team recently dove off the political bridge and said they weren't gonna work on the project anym0re - so...
k9zw wrote to paulie420 <=-
There are many approaches to doing this, but this one is fairly slick:
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/tricking-out-the-m4-macmini-acasis -m002pr
o-dock/
Easy install and setup.
I don't know what's "political" about that (I certainly don't think I mentioned anything political); and I didn't say Apple did a bad move
with their Apple Silicon either. I was just curious if Linux supports them. I don't see why Linux couldn't take advantage of the potential of that platform (eventually, at least), but maybe I don't know enough
about it? If Apple wants to prevent an OS like Linux from running on
it, that would actually seem a bit wierd to me..
I was actually thinking that a platform like Apple Silicon + an OS like Linux could be a good combination.
The Asanti devs decided to pull out b/c they were upset that Trump is ruling the U.S. at the current...
I'm not familiar with Asanti.
Asanti is the only Linux distro that got to GPU acceleration on Apple's M1/M2 silicone.
I think it was an extremely heavy task - and subsequent chips would take more and more development. So I do commend the devs for taking it on, and succeeding - but they recently walked away; or at least stated they were doing as much - as some sort of protest to the climate... or a simple exit b/c it WAS a heavy lift.
Again - applaud and appreciate their work; just wish we could all get along...
But hey, it's FreeBSD/Darwin
underhood. what you may not like in
I was actually thinking that a platform like Apple Silicon + an OS like Linux could be a good combination.
BTW, just because it's a MACH kernel doesn't make it FreeBSD :). They tried including a whole bunch of scripts from FreeBSD with earlier versions of OS X, but they all failed miserably because it was more NeXT than anything else.
I was actually thinking that a platform like Apple Silicon + an OS li Linux could be a good combination.
Great idea until you figure this out that Apple is all but a rational company.
I keep reminded about that every time I need to deal with them in person... this company is so emotionally instable that making any
rational moves is all but Apple in my humble opinion.
They may look strong today and I love many ideas from them (Silicon
among them) but bear my words.. they will go through another bailout sooner or later and there will be no MSFT to rescue them that time.
I still enjoy Mac-OS in terminal but yeah.. I get the point, when I ho> compare it to my Linux VMs and remote hosts.. that freedoms are limited ho> and routed more and more to apple way of thinking which starts to become, ho> occasionally annoying.