I cranked up News and spent a fair amount of time reading through a number of articles.I used Finder to navigate around the file system several times.I took many screen shots and manipulated them with Preview.I launched Messages and issued a ton of messages to the family saying I'm just testing and to ignore me.I flitted around through my 50 Safari web pages.I launched Disk Utility and ran First Aid on the internal boot device several times (of course this does lockup the system briefly doing this).I launched Terminal and set in motion a very intensive 'find' command.I had Activity Monitor running with all the various CPU and GPU windows open.I launched Maps and selected a number of locations to be displayed.I navigated/scooted about in my Calendar windows.I started to reply to many unanswered e-Mails.I launched Time Machine to backup for the first time to my Apple 2TB TC via wire (not Wi-Fi).I launched 10 Stockfish chess applications and got then running.I cranked up Safari and opened some 50 web sites.So at this point I wanted to see how the mini would handle a very heavy CPU, memory intensive, and i/o load all happening at same time. When the mini is at idle it draws just 3 watts. Even so, doing all my daily activities I was unaware of any slow downs or response hesitations. I looked at the RAM used via Activity Monitor, and did see some swap had been used (about 2.5 GB at the time I looked), and there was some MB of compressed RAM. So having setup the mini, I went about perform various daily tasks over a day and a bit more. The SONY TV is a bit of a wonky display as I have to always reset its Underscan in the System Preferences -> Displays so the left side vertical Dock, menu bar, and rightside desktop items are in full view. I connected a Thunderbolt cable to my 10G LAN using a Promise SANLink 3 adapter, and used an ancient Sony Bravia 26" TV via HDMI for a starting display (will later connect to a TB LG wide screen later when I get it from the office). I plugged the mini into my KILL A WATT device to be able to monitor the electrical draw in watts. I was able to set it up quickly without any fuss at all.
Yesterday I received my Mac mini (M1, 2020) that is the base/stock model with the measly 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. I started reading up on the various Reviews who mostly were applauding Apple's move from Intel to SoC and the benefits they were seeing on the M1 Macs, and who started to agree with Apple's claims. Subject: I must admit, I'm very impressed with how my Mac mini (M1, 2020) is performingĪfter listening to the Apple event introducing the M1 models I will admit I was a bit skeptical about all the claims being made.
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