M2 Pro Mac mini TEARDOWN review!

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Today we're getting up close and personal with the new M2 Pro Mac mini, by which I mean tearing the darn thing apart to see whats inside it. With a new more powerful chip under the hood, the M2 Pro Mac mini offers a sweet spot between the new M2 Mac mini entry level and the higher end Mac Studio! So how does this compare? What differences are there inside?
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Unboxing
2:11 Interior differences!
2:47 Disassembly
4:36 Examining the logic board
6:00 Removing the heatsink
7:30 M2 Pro is a big boy!
8:45 Cinebench results
9:14 SSD speed
9:49 This may be the perfect Mac...
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@chumbawumba1959 Год назад

Speaking from 30+ years of experience, I can tell you that the NUMBER ONE RULE IN MANUFACTURING IS THAT 'VARIATION KILLS QUALITY'. Hence, its a GOOD THING that the case for the Mini has not changed in 10+ years. Also, using the same materials for multiple platforms (aka: products) saves money due to economies of scale. Yeah, its kind of boring, but lets just roll with it :)

@timbeaton5045 Год назад

"If it ain't broke, why fix it?" as they say, apparently! Seriously, it's become a design classic, and what about it needs redesigning? It is easily adequate enough for the current chipset, so until the chips require more cooling that could be practicably done in the current case, i doubt it will change. Would be nice for a Space Grey, or Midnight version, though.

@IAMLXGEND Год назад

Let’s not and say we did. 10+ years is a little ridiculous. Imagine iPhones still looking like iPhone 3G in 2023.

@kellyjohnson6292 Год назад

@@IAMLXGEND well yeah but now iPhones cost well over $1,000 up from $500.

@cjc363636 Год назад

And it keeps the server farm mini buyers happy, too.

@clebbington Год назад

@@cjc363636 true! I wonder how many of the world's Mac minis are currently rack mounted

@Cr7stalS Год назад

YOU Have no idea how much I love tech and you’re the person that I enjoy one of the most and I have to say thank you for posting videos like this and I love your background

@jameslenney Год назад

I love that you’re still doing this. Thanks for showing us how it all works.

@SDOfficer Год назад

Thank you, Luke! I'm looking forward to more coverage on the M2 Pro and M2 Max devices! I really appreciate you opening up the devices and revealing (and explaining) what we're paying for!

@soupdancer17 Год назад

FINALLY!!! Been waiting for all your vids on these!!!

@brayan8346 Год назад

I just found your channel and have enjoyed your videos. I like that you don’t give a long boring needless introduction. Most of the time I close or skip through the that part anyway on other channels.

@Dellaster Год назад

Thank you for the intelligent teardown review without theatrics. How refreshing! Liked & subscribed.

@alciosomensari Год назад

That’s the teardown I was looking for. Awesome! Thanks Luke

@tobisonbrown Год назад

This was great. Love the tear down first test second approach 😂

@IronHorsey3 Год назад

That was kinda badass. 😂

@bartabum Год назад

Great teardown, appreciate the speed and straightforwardness!

@jimcabezola3051 Год назад

I enjoy your tear downs, Luke! Excellent!

@Helios.vfx. Год назад

Such a beautiful engineering work. I don't have apple products, but love watching videos about it

@cmd8086 Год назад

Thank you Luke for showing the chip itself! We're here to see it!

@etherealLife Год назад

Thanks for doing all that, that's why I love watching your videos

@rcjmack847 Год назад

I agree. Got mine today. Thanks for showing the internals.

@TsunoOkashi Год назад

Love these teardown vids.

@sevendaysin8374 Год назад

M2 Pro Mac Mini looks like the machine to get. Pricing one out currently for a new studio setup. =) Thanks for the superb teardown/review, Luke!

@GraphicDesignerStephen Год назад

I was thinking the same thing, but the Studio does outperform the Mini, especially when comparing (almost) apples to apples specs. The Studio can also be purchased at Costco for $1699, making it one hell of a bargain.

@MrBurtonPE Год назад

Costco really, got a link? 🤔

@jdrtech1 Год назад

Always a good video from Luke, thanks!

@hectorluca Год назад

I'm just waiting for its release here in Mexico! But right now it seems awesome! Loved your video and I love to see things things frome the inside out

@BigWorldofToys Год назад

Best M2 Pro video out there! Thanks

@goggleboy3 Год назад

Love the tear down!

@adminfootballgenius844 Год назад

Great review as always bro

@BoredGeese Год назад

I like that Luke starts to talk a lot quicker compared to the older videos. The confidence is now naturally high!

@rodneydangerfield7153 Год назад

Thanks, Luke, for the fantastic M2 Pro Mac mini teardown video!

@RobertoMagnoV Год назад

Best of all!! Fun and relevant, as always!!!

@Jenny_Digital Год назад

Luke, there is a benefit to anodising a heat sink Black even when it can’t be seen. It improves its efficiency. I found this out when specifying a heat sink for a work project.

@giorgosstavrou8515 Год назад

Nice. One of the most helpful reviews on M2 pro circulating in the Web.

@logtothebase2 Год назад

Thanks luke, interesting to see the evolution of the components here, Apples industrial design has become very static. A bit more light on these dark components for the disassembly would be helpful for the video.

@susanepstein5874 Год назад

Loved seeing you tear it apart

@toobvu Год назад

Thank you, Luke. This looks like solid engineering - I'm less concerned about thermals after seeing the heat sink cover and channel. One question, has Apple made any changes to the Bluetooth antenna? There were some reports of Bluetooth dropouts in earlier Mini designs, perhaps this has been improved along with the BT 5.3 update.

@BobbyG3.14 Год назад

i can speak to having a mac mini pro, no issues with BT or otherwise

@pabloandresaliaga Год назад

I love to watch your videos, Luke. Also your english is perfect for someone who aren´t native english users.

@Kevin6t8 Год назад

This M2 Pro Mac Mini ticked all but one of the checkmarks on my wish list. HDMI 2.1, Check! 512Gb storage, Check! 16Gb Ram, Check! The higher powered headphone jack, Check! Space Grey color option to differentiate it from the regular Mac Mini, No Check! $1,300 dollar U.S. base price, Check! 5 out of 6 items I had on my wish list ain't bad! I look forward to getting mine soon!

@colindoyle9876 Год назад

Wonder if case can be swapped with 2018 - been asking for over a year - no-one cares lol

@imnotindanger Год назад

@@colindoyle9876 oh lol that idea had been in my head since the m1 mini came out

@YourreelmemoriesAu Год назад

Cheers Luke. Loved this teardown/review. I may even buy one based on your knowledge & experience.

@GeorgeChinSr Год назад

Wonderful to know of 2 NAND chips in the base M2 Pro Mini! So do not need to upgrade to 1 TB to get RAID 1 speeds. Wonder whether 4 or more NAND chips could/would support higher RAID levels for data redundancy safeguard. Really appreciate the base M2 Pro mini teardown. I think you are the first and only reviewer to do so this far! Bravo! I am subscribing

@Jaycob_Strandberg Год назад

I can't wait to see this same treatment for the 24 inch iMac. The Mac mini with m2 pro is exciting!

@SamBorgman Год назад

This week I needed a new Mac after 8 years using my 2015 Macbook pro. I saw this was in my budget and only few months old, I just bought it. Now that I'm seeing this video and other reviews, I'm very happy with it. AND this thing is flying compared to my 8 year old MBP. That was the top end 15" MBP at the time and it still works fine for internet and video usage. I can still sell it for around $500. M2 pro Mini can play games even. I was playing Civ 6 ultra maxed out settings, the fan didn't even speed up. CPU temp was in the 60s. When I was recording the game fan and temp was the same. When I was exporting the recording from ScreenFlow, CPU went up to 80C but fan still stayed at 1700. When I sped up the fan manually to 3000, it cooled the CPU down to 65, that's a drop of 15C! This is a beast and should work for anyone who think they might need Mac Studio but thinks it might be overkill. That was where I was, thought I needed a Studio.

@hagar2025 Год назад

Luke is such a badass! The way he doesn’t care about the cable in the box. And how he tossed that lid to the side. I’m feeling all kinds of emotions.

@Trebseig Год назад

A teardown deserves at least two 👍👍

@toadlguy Год назад

That was great. Loved the quick teardown. I completely agree on this being a game changer. Particularly the base model. The additional cost from a similarly configured M2 w/ 512 GB SSD and 16 GBs of Ram is only $300 for 50% more Performance CPUs and 60% more GPUs as well as 2 more Thunderbolt 4 ports and a better cooling system. What is really game changing though, is for almost anybody, this is all you need to run even high end professional software. You can add additional storage if you need it, but you really want 512GBs on your boot drive. 8 GBs works for memory, but heavy workloads will cause swapping - 16 GBs, however, given MacOS memory management, really is all you need for almost all tasks. This machine is right in the sweet spot (unless you need portability).

@RobertLitschauer Год назад

You are great! Thank you forthilft review!

@willm5032 Год назад

After researching my options, I bought the M2 pro mac mini with 32gb ram as a work from home design machine and its handled everything I've thrown at it so far. I wonder now if I needed the performance for my use casse but at least it should be future proofed! Great little silver box, has flawlessly replaced my 2008(!) Mac(Hack)Pro I was running, even though I can't run 5 hard disks on it as cleanly haha

@gingerelvis Год назад

When you go to a concert but can't get the stamp to wash off of your hand 😉

@FalconDrums 4 месяца назад

Really cool to see that it opens the exact same way as the old ones did.

@walpoleandworcester Год назад

I hope the Bluetooth on these is improved vastly. Great teardown as always man!

@Nick-kb6jd Год назад

I just did a quick check vs my 2018 mac mini and it does appear improved.

@TheInfinitear Год назад

@@Nick-kb6jd same with mine

@coolconductor Год назад

live your vide man you inspired me to make my YT channel keep up the good work:)

@krishnansrinivasan830 Год назад

L2 cache for M2 Pro is 36 MB & L2 Cache for M1 Max is 24 MB which gives an upper hand in GPU performances when It comes to 3D applications for M2 Pro. M1 Max has an advantage of expanding upto 64GB of RAM while M2 Pro is capped to 32 GB of RAM .If I have to, I probably might go with M2 Pro for my use case scenario.! Awesome video , Great tear down , Thanks 🙏🕊 I had a great time watching this video :)

@bobliljenquist9860 Год назад

Very fun video to watch, as usual. Amazing how you navigate breakdowns! But how did you set up your iMac as a monitor for the Mac Mini????

@GeorgeChinSr Год назад

@panzer3279 Год назад

All the NAND chips are configured in RAID 0 by Apple. You can't configure the individual NAND chips.

@BluePlanetDrone Год назад

Would have liked to have seen what thermal paste you used to put it back together....Fun video non the Less. Loving the Car content as well BTW. Thanks.

@Spleen250 Год назад

Great Video!!

@davidbillberg2203 Год назад

Finally! I get mine today!

@fergusyoung6782 Год назад

This is what I was looking for, m2 pro mini tear down

@mikekaylor1226 Год назад

Great video for a fantastic computer!

@fidiak Год назад

Great video, thanks.

@AyeshaKha007 Год назад

Love the review ❤

@NDakota79 Год назад

These machines look so clean on the inside. As a design person myself, I love it.

@jondonnelly4831 Год назад

whats to love, it's a biscuit tin with a phone mainboard inside.

@MACBoricua Год назад

Mac Mini! Mac Mini!! Can’t wait to get one of my own!!

@Skrenja Год назад

I just bought the base model with 16GB of ram. Hoping it doesn't dissapoint. 🤞

@synen Год назад

Thanks Luke, good video. Could you please run Speedometer 2.1 on a browser ? Would love to see the results.

@kevlartwinky Год назад

Great teardown just a bit sad to see that though a user could open it it’s not user-upgradable, which is what I love about my two 2012 Mac Minis

@tmmuscics2753 Год назад

Yeah I have an old 2010 MacBook Pro and that was fun to spec out

@benadamsondxb Год назад

I just love how beautiful Apple devices are even on the inside - something most people will never see. Knowing my devices are so well made makes them feel that much more special.

@mauricioflores3732 Год назад

Loved it!!!

@cannygrowabeard Год назад

Nice video I really wanted to see the arrangement of the NAND, my only outstanding question is how many NAND chips the 1TB config has (eg. 4No. 256GB or 2No. 512GB)

@lattermanstudio Год назад

Good report ........ thanks

@johnnewell5025 Год назад

To replace my 2012 (!) quad core Mini, I ordered an M2 Mini with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD...the took another look at the base M2 Pro and decided that was really the sweet spot for value and performance. Purchased that one in-store on launch day and couldn't be happier. Outstanding machine and outstanding value.

@geminibodyshop71 Год назад

Great video nice to see it’s beefed up inside still won’t move from my m1air I have the 8 cpu and 8 gpu with 512 gb and 8 ram at works a dream for what I need But love the videos

@purplefuku Год назад

4:04 - DankPods, is that you?! 😂

@bluestthinking1454 Год назад

Would love it if you could find and review add-on disk storage devices that use thunderbolt and support terabytes of storage. Starting with the Hagibis Type-C Docking Station & Stand for Mac Mini M1 but this only supports one SSD. What would be nice is a box that supports 8Tb !!

@moogs Год назад

Thank God for a real tear down over all the unboxing videos. Thank you. Need to know the 512GB ssd setup for pro m2.

@magphotos Год назад

Okay, that was very interesting, thank you! Idea for next video: investigate a way to mount the Mac Mini M2 Pro components inside the body of a 2018 SPACE GREY Mac mini. That would be a dream, but I'm not sure it's possible because of the placement of the screws that secure the motherboard to the shell. Unless your usual magic touch can find a way? 🤔

@msandersen Год назад

Gaffs tape, or super glue…

@EricKinkead 9 месяцев назад

My fav Luke Miani video to date. “Oh, that’s a big boy!” 😂

@Wonderboy168 Год назад

thank you Luke for tearing it apart for us to see the real inside!

@variousd3507 Год назад

Thank you!

@GiancarloCarccamo Год назад

great video

@PhillipHilton Год назад

This looks upgradable. Thank god for that.

@Melchirobin Год назад

I always forget you have an iMac as a display when I come to your channel from anywhere else.

@edmondhung6097 Год назад

The extra cables connect to power supply should be PS_ON, Power good signal and/or some remote. The big connection clearly is just ground and power so they need these signal have other route.

@timfireblade Год назад

Thanks for the tear down, the max looks great and more future proof (with more RAM and fast SSD) than the base M2 mini. I’ll wait until they start showing up in the Apple refurb store.

@GraphicDesignerStephen Год назад

I’m currently holding out for a 27”+ M2 iMac, but if they don’t announce one soon, I’ll be picking up the M2 Pro mini and a Studio Display.

@whocares961 Год назад

Well done! Thank U very much... Please tell/show a little bit more of fan noise... in comparison (MBP vs Mini) Greetings vom Germany ;-)

@valhala73 Год назад

Great video!!!! Are you using an iMac as a monitor with this machine? What model of external monitor would you recommend purchasing wihtout beaking the bank? All the best

@WashCommoner Год назад

I don't think I'll be getting one, here in UK with the increased pricing, great reviews guys thanks for the heads up...

@andre1987eph Год назад

Thanks Luke.

@MokeVsls 2 месяца назад

Hi Luke thanks for the video, great teardown! Just wanted to ask you: I'd like to put a geo tag device inside the case, I had this very model and actually thought I could easily find more room, like in the older versions. Do you think there's a good place to ideally magnet stick any air tag to the inner case without causing any sort of issues? Thank You in advance!

@iCaveDave Год назад

It’s possible that making those heat sink fins black makes heat radiation more efficient as well as looking good.

@leonardholmes587 Год назад

Great video. I'll stay away from the base model with the small SSD. Looks like they priced it right though.

@zer02626 Год назад

Thanks!

@JohnnyW36 Год назад

You have the best information regarding Apple products on RU-vid!

@chrisweber7460 Год назад

I remember the first time, when I saw the Acorn Risc computer. Now I own more or less a successor. 😂 And it is incredible fast.

@ekodong Год назад

I'm a M1 air user. after testing for my productivity 8gigs not enough for me. next will be M2 mini 16 and 512ssd. hope it soon

@Natalia-Johansson Год назад

I hope you reapplied thermal paste.

@trollpotatoe Год назад

lukey descending into madness in the disassembly 😭

@johnj8639 Год назад

Most companies paint heatsinks black for thermal reasons. I assume this is the same reason Apple painted it black, its not for aesthetics.

@zer02626 Год назад

Thank you.

@matt_kelly Год назад

I'm super happy to see that it has dual NAND chips, I saw on another channel that the regular M2 only had 1 and was HALF the speed that you got. I still want a desktop Mac and the M2Pro mini will probably be it unless the Mac Studio stays at the same price for the M2... which I doubt.

@yorkan213swd6 Год назад

Please which channel ?

@panzer3279 Год назад

The lesser the number of NAND chips, the more reliable. Apple uses RAID 0, so if any one of the NAND chips fail, your computer won't boot.

@josehvelez1960 2 месяца назад

Thanks to you, just bought one, cant complain. Much Much Much Better than the Mac Mini M1 16GB!!! Thank you Luke for the superb review, that’s the reason why I look for your reviews!!!

@Markus_Jungwirth Год назад

Hi Luke. Fantastic Video. Maybe I missed it... what about the memory? Can you add some more memory after sale?

@blackroosterdesignsa8017 Год назад

Hello Luke and thank you for your great review. I would like to ask you if I can use my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019) as an external monitor for the M2 Pro Mac Mini. Thank you in advance!

@trustmub1 Год назад

I wonder if we can have access to those memory modules and soldier them on to extend storage on the cheap

@ogjalena Год назад

“We got a peel-y boy here” that’s what I do when describing stuff like that! These Mac Minis seem to have a really good internal design compared to some of the other products, but it still feels like they still don’t want people getting into them.

@harales7849 Год назад

It would be interesting to see if the thermals would change if you paste all of the heat spreader full of thermal paste. And expand the copper spreader