Apple Mac Mini M2 Pro with 1TB SSD storage

welcome back everybody today we're going to do an unboxing of the Mac Mini Apple M2 Pro chip so this is the M2 Pro Mac Mini I am replacing my old Mac which is from 2013 2014 I believe so well worth the upgrade to the M2 since I've never had the M1 so let's get started and we'll talk a little bit about this as we unbox it so one of the things I love about Apple is their hair stuff there it is right there just pull and pair okay now we put this down let's see what we have here there we go comes really well packaged pull that out there we go all right there it is right there not too heavy not too bad we'll put that right there we'll get you so we have on the top the Apple um it only comes in one color the the silver um of course is this this is the Apple M2 Pro chip 10 core CPU six performance cores and four efficiency cores it has a 16 core GPU and 16 core um noro engines with 200 gigabytes of memory bandwidth which is great right one of the reasons I'm getting this is because of the uh Hardware media engine accelerators right is because I'm trying going to try to do videos on this Mac Mini for this channel as opposed to doing it on my uh iPad Pro so we'll see how it turns out and what we end up doing with it okay so let's go ahead and look around the Box you there see it's a little light in here so but there's Mac Mini nothing on that side nothing on this side and on the back we do have some things like my serial number and stuff like that so I'll cover that up but it does have the quick tear aways right here which is good and one down here so let's go ahead and do that and then we'll go ahead and start unboxing this here we go satisfactory for people one two all right there we go let's go ahead and flip this back over and we'll go ahead and do a real quick unboxing this is not a review it's more of a unboxing and just uh looking to see what's in it I'll tell you what Apple says on the website yeah that's packed inside of this it says the Mac Mini and the power cord and that's it this is bring your own keyboard bring your own monitor bring your own Mouse which makes it affordable I could have gone with the uh the regular one but I decided not to only because I what I really wanted was a new one for my channel right I haven't had a Mac Mini like I said I think since 2013 it was Intel based slow as anything but he's well it's just so slow but this one I hear is super fast so I'm I'm excited about it I did get the only upgrade I got to this one from the base model is the one terabyte drive I do have quite a few photos but even at that I have a SSD that I'll connect this through Thunderbolt and I'll put those pictures on there and then you know through Apple Magic code the right keys on the keyboard and make it open from that SSD allow me still to have one terabyte of free space for other items okay so let's go ahead and take this out of the box in the way that we do that is just by lifting it from the tab right here so we'll go ahead and lift um it looks like you do have some plastic that you need to take off from there we'll take that off in a minute again I mentioned this in other videos the actual picture is the actual depiction of the actual size of the uh unit itself so that's great to see what else do we have in the in the Box here designed by Apple in California that's great all right so what do we have in here it looks like we just have a silver sticker and some instructions and everybody on this channel knows what we do with instructions sticker will keep but the instructions will just slap them up we don't need them we don't need no seeking instructions so that's it's good um next thing that we have in here is the power cord um it is just a cord Because the actual uh Power and everything is inside of here so there's no reason to have a brick or anything that's all uh kept inside of this compact space I know there's people that say they would love to see this Mac Mini 2 more compact but I'm happy with it compared to the Legacy equipment that I have I'm used to Towers you know if I can get the same performance and the size of this you best believe I will be happy with this like I said um this is the M2 Pro 16 gigabytes configurable up to 32. um it starts off at 512 gigs but I went right away to the one terabyte but you can also get two terabyte four terabyte eight terabyte I stopped at one terabyte because it is very expensive for some reason you know I am an Apple fan don't get me wrong but upgrades in apple ecosystem are ridiculous so not quite sure why it's so ridiculous but it is um so there's the cable um regular outlet here's the uh item right here so let's go ahead and put this in here and we'll go ahead and start looking at the Mac itself and we'll put this to the side all right here we go we'll put this one right here let's go ahead and put this box back in here and then we'll bring this Mac Mini back up here all right so let's go ahead and do the final part of this unboxing and go ahead and take the sticker off there should be two from what I'm understanding so we'll move the box one more time and put this down here so here's the first sticker there we go very tacky very sticky next one is the one that actually uh protects all the i o ports and everything so let's look at that foreign all right very satisfying this is one of the other main reasons why I chose this one as you can see um we'll flip this around and just put it like this so that you can clearly see it but we have the power button we have the power cord ethernet is standard one gig I didn't upgrade it to the 10 gig and then we have this right here which is future proofing it this that's uh you know those are four four Thunderbolt ports and you could tell these are Thunderbolt just by the icon right here then we have an HDMI right here which is the upgraded HDMI uh so that people will like that you can get up to two I believe 8K out of this or something like that so not quite sure but it it is something that's great it is the new standard of HDMI which is something you get um with the uh Pro only um what I will say is the HDMI display video actually the it outputs right it supports for One display with up to 8K resolution at 60 hertz or 4K resolution at 240 hertz so what you decide to do you know I have a dual display set up to uh HP 27 inches looking to upgrade that at a later time um but we'll see we'll see what I end up upgrading and going from there um the last thing I'll say that we have here is the 3.5 millimeter head bone Jack and then we have the U2 USB a um ports for those Legacy items you might still have let's go ahead and do just a real quick view of this oh let me also just point this out right here this is where it exhausts air from um so that's where the air comes out to exhaust it my understanding is it stays cool runs cool um but super fast excited to use this so uh last thing I'll do is I'll put this back down and let you uh look out around it so that you can kind of see uh everything from a perspective of just looking around the whole thing so there's the front of it i o ports okay other side nothing you have this little indicator right there so when you power it on it glows like an LED now we have this side which is nothing and if we look at the other side we have yet again nothing very clean modern look love it can't complain I'm used to it since this is still since 2013 still the same I was hoping to get the space gray but they only do it in silver but it is what it is because my prior one was a silver so it's not like I'm losing anything um and then the last thing we'll look at right here is the back of it um if you look at this I'll give you a chance to zoom in a little but what I can tell you is it says Mac Mini right here um that's the only thing and then you have your stuff right here and this right here can't come off but I'm not going to take it off because one of the things about Apple is when you purchase something you have to make sure you purchase it with everything you might think you want in the future and not just in the moment um that's why I went ahead and went with the one terabyte right that's why I went with the one terabyte to be honest with you um because everything is soldered onto the actual socket motherboard or whatever you want to call it so you real these are not really very upgradable um nonetheless I look forward to using this I'm told it's super fast it should be faster than my Intel Mac coin which is from almost 10 to 11 years old that's how long I kept it I'm hoping to keep this one just as long um but I'll come back and let everybody know what I think about it first thing that it asked me to do was to do an Apple update which wasn't too bad right after I selected the country connected the keyboard and the mouse I ended up I did end up using one of my Apple keyboards as well as my Apple Mouse I'll switch the mouse up later uh even though I like all Apple things the actual Mouse I don't like the way it charges the way it moves so I usually use a Logitech mouse which I'll pair with my new Mac later um we'll keep you posted on what else comes along the ways but it's updating right now so we'll see what how long it takes it says about 30 minutes remaining so we'll see talk to you in a few minutes [Music] so it rebooted and now going through its reboot we'll see how long that takes be back in a minute so it finished and then it started rebooting we'll see what happens next be back in a second the Apple machine is rebooting for the third time in case you're wondering and keeping count from a software update all right it's completely rebooted and it's asking us to go through the setup process again select your country oh there it goes all right let's go ahead and get started doing this and we'll be back in a few minutes now it is asking me for accessibility if I want to continue with accessibility I will say not now all right it's time to choose my Wi-Fi be right back alrighty I've entered my Wi-Fi password now it's asking me for data privacy so when I see this icon it will be data privacy let's continue all right so I had to create an account set up account do a password for the Mac Mini now it's going something to iCloud don't know what it's doing but stay tuned now it's asking me how do I want to make this Mac Mini yours make this your Mac new Mac alrighty looks like we are at the home screen finally and we're ready to get started excited to see how this works gonna give it a few minutes and then I'll give you my quick two seconds thought on what I think about it alrighty so I had a chance to look at the Mac Mini and start using it a little bit I'm going to customize it to me but what I can tell you is wow I cannot believe the speed of this M2 Pro chip in this computer compared to my computer from what I want to say it's either 10 to 11 years old it is just night and day I cannot believe how fast this thing is and it's just unbelievable can't wait to do things on this Mac Mini where hopefully I will not get that beach volleyball but from now what I can tell you is oh my God this thing is super fast super quick and if this is in the any indication of what to expect I am excited and really happy with my purchase all right want to tell everybody thank you for everything consider commenting consider subscribing and leaving me a thumbs up talk to everybody on the next one take care bye bye

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Length: 12min 54sec (774 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 11 2023