{"id":1767,"date":"2025-04-18T15:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2025-04-18T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:01:51","slug":"unboxing-new-m4-mac-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/unboxing-new-m4-mac-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Unboxing My New M4 Mac mini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finally decided that even though I was able to make this elaborate “docked” MacBook Air, that it became very frustrating. When it worked, it worked well. But when it didn’t, well, I didn’t take it well. I felt as though I would need a full dock instead of these interconnected hubs and “docks” that I had. [note: I forgot that I never posted about this setup…]. A good dock costs almost as much as the Mac mini and of course, no performance gain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here is the unboxing of that Mac mini. I bought the base model with the M4 chip, 16GB unified RAM, 256GB SSD (yes, it’s small but I have plenty of connected external storage) and I brought my own keyboard, mouse and monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top of box. So small.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Side of box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bottom of box has specs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Box top came off!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The front has 2 USB-C ports.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back has plethora of ports but no USB-A port.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is all you get in the box.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This Mac is impossibly small and the CPU is on par with my desktop CPU and in some instances, faster. Very impressive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is is on my desk. Another sneak peak into my new desk setup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And that’s it. It is a fantastic computer. I will post more about it later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally decided that even though I was able to make this elaborate “docked” MacBook Air, that it became very frustrating. When it worked, it worked well. But when it didn’t, well, I didn’t take it well. I felt as though I would need a full dock instead of these interconnected hubs and “docks” that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-apple-silicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}