---
title: "Unboxing the new M1 Mac Mini for Video editing and programming."
description: "After a two year hiatus to Windows land I decided to switch back to Apple. PC parts are not in stock and my current beast of a PC actually isn't as stable as I had hoped. I opted for the new M1 Mac Mini which I maxed out. I have a 1tb 16gb RAM model."
date: "2021-03-24T16:00:15.000Z"
url: "https://timbenniks.dev/videos/tim/051-6ub_k4uvz20"
youtube_url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ub_k4uvz20"
playlist: "tim"
image: "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6Ub_k4uvz20/maxresdefault.jpg"
tags: ["frontend", "media-production"]
---

# Unboxing the new M1 Mac Mini for Video editing and programming.

After a two year hiatus to Windows land I decided to switch back to Apple. PC parts are not in stock and my current beast of a PC actually isn't as stable as I had hoped. I opted for the new M1 Mac Mini which I maxed out. I have a 1tb 16gb RAM model.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ub_k4uvz20

## Transcript

what is up everybody welcome back to yet another video so in this video i'm going to unbox my new studio equipment and you know what it's very little there's not that much going on and i will be able to do everything i do now plus more with this setup so are you ready for my first unboxing video let's do it cheers so i already kind of opened this because that little thingy didn't work but you can see my whole computer and everything is in this little box isn't that fancy whoa that is super cool the peel is fancy the fancy m1 make mini and it just comes off nicely imagine that this whole thing is actually that small and it does more than my current beast of a pc okay are you ready for a proper peel let me just put that in camera so we have usbs hdmi thunderbolt network cooling headphones it hasn't changed much from when i used to own one years ago okay let's put that to this size for a sec let's see what else we have well we have all the the average stuff that i don't think we care about too much look at this packaging it's super nice and also because it's so small it's pretty cool because it's good for the environment you know not too much material so in this little box is the next thing whoa so this is normally used for laptops but i decided to go for it because in the future i'll also get a laptop and it has like a lot of extra nice connectivity a huge huge power brick not bad packaging so this is the dock and you know what it's pretty heavy i didn't expect it to be this heavy unboxing galore so sd card reader bunch of audio stuff super fast connections even faster connections and i'll just use this as a dock on the desk and i think it even comes with like little standoffs so i can just put it like this because it might also have to be like this i don't know yet we'll see look at this setup this basically replaces my monster pc and there it is i have one terabyte i have 16 gigs of ram and it has the same cpu as they all have and i use this as a permanent disk also just going in here and this is connected and that's the whole setup i could even travel with this setup pretty nice okay thank you for watching and i will see you next time where this thing is actually running my whole studio