Apple’s low-powered Mac mini is a mighty PC, but it also might just be the easy-to-use home server you’ve been waiting for.
If you’re going to give your computer a name that calls to mind a cartoon mouse, it ought to be “Mighty”, not “mini”.
If we had to buy a new computer right now, it would almost certainly be the mighty Mac mini M2 Pro we’ve been testing, for reasons I’ll expound upon presently.Either that, or maybe two of the regular Mac mini M2 machines , which you can get for roughly the same money as one mighty Mac mini M2 Pro, depending on specs.
If we were buying a Mac mini, there’s one other thing we’d bring to it, too, to make up for one of this computer’s two major defects.Satechi Stand & HubThis connects to one of the USB-C ports on the rear of the Mac mini and gives you a nice collection of ports and memory card readers at the front.Unlike most desktop computers, you can’t upgrade the memory or internal storage once you’ve bought it.
At the heart of the new Mac minis is Apple’s M2 chip, an ARM chip that traces its lineage back to the chips Apple made for the iPhone and iPad.Which means, it was designed from the ground up to be a very low-powered chip, in the sense of electricity consumption, while at the same time being reasonably high-powered in the sense of the work it can do.
Our own needs here in the Labs are somewhat similar to that, though they don’t involve illegal downloads. We’ve been experimenting with using the mighty Mac mini M2 Pro as a headless server for machine-learning applications, and we’re quite pleased with the results so far. We’re getting in-house ML services comparable to cloud-based services, at a tiny fraction of the ongoing cost.
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