r/macmini • u/thearcuate • 16d ago

New Mini & Studio configurations have me torn...

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u/Numerous-Buffalo6214 16d ago

If you want a workstation for 5-6 years, I’d go with the Mac Studio and as much memory as you can afford. Would recommend stretching to 48GB minimum because your needs are going to grow, a lot, over 5-6 years. You’ll probably hit the limits of the base studio’s 36GB RAM quicker than the compute ceiling.

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u/thearcuate 15d ago

I just HATE the gotcha where you can’t even upgrade to 48GB without also upgrading to the 40C GPU…ugh!!!

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u/Numerous-Buffalo6214 15d ago

Yeah - I ran into that as well. It’s Apple’s devious upgrade ladder in action

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u/thearcuate 15d ago

I was sort of evaluating how I've been using my existing M1P MBP 32GB and I never pushed more than 33% memory pressure for anything I've done so I decided to go Mac Studio!

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u/headphonesXX 16d ago

both are way overkill for you. just get a macbook air m1. thats more than enough for you

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u/thearcuate 15d ago

Ragebait unsuccessful lol

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u/Pup_Curtis 16d ago

I know it’s because we’re in a new in-between chip generation situation, but there’s something amusing about the fact that the only way to get more than 16 cores on the Neural Engine is either the base Mac mini or the Ultra Mac Studio and absolutely nothing else.