M1 Mac Mini is much bigger than it needs to be

Stefan Mileschin · 4th March 2022, 09:48

M1 Mac Mini is mostly hot air due to designer laziness

Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might have missed a trick when it came to designing its over-hyped M1 Mac Mini – it designed it far too big.

In a 15-minute-long video, YouTuber Quinn Nelson from Snazzy Labs explains how he managed to shrink the current M1 Mac Mini by 78 per cent without harming performance.

Apparently the design genii at Apple botched the internals and installed a power supply which was too big. By reversing all Apple’s silly design decisions and swapping out the power supply, Nelson was reduced the size of the Mac mini enclosure by 78 per cent. He organised all the parts inside a 3D-printed body with a mini Mac Pro motif.

The design problem was caused by Apple’s design laziness. When Apple released the first round of Apple Silicon computers, they did not change the hardware industrial design at all. So the current Mac Mini enclosure is designed to fit an Intel CPU and circuit board, including having to accommodate the large fans and heat sinks the Intel chip required.

https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardwar...it-needs-to-be

4th March 2022, 09:48	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,575	M1 Mac Mini is much bigger than it needs to be M1 Mac Mini is mostly hot air due to designer laziness Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might have missed a trick when it came to designing its over-hyped M1 Mac Mini – it designed it far too big. In a 15-minute-long video, YouTuber Quinn Nelson from Snazzy Labs explains how he managed to shrink the current M1 Mac Mini by 78 per cent without harming performance. Apparently the design genii at Apple botched the internals and installed a power supply which was too big. By reversing all Apple’s silly design decisions and swapping out the power supply, Nelson was reduced the size of the Mac mini enclosure by 78 per cent. He organised all the parts inside a 3D-printed body with a mini Mac Pro motif. The design problem was caused by Apple’s design laziness. When Apple released the first round of Apple Silicon computers, they did not change the hardware industrial design at all. So the current Mac Mini enclosure is designed to fit an Intel CPU and circuit board, including having to accommodate the large fans and heat sinks the Intel chip required. https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardwar...it-needs-to-be

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