Mac Mini M2 PRO VS Mac Studio M1 MAX – What is BETTER Value?



The NEW Mac Mini with the M2 PRO is a little POWER HOUSE! However is it the best deal out there once Spec’d up towards the M1 MAX Mac Studio? Well Today we are going to find out what is the better value buy with doing a comparison Review of the Mac Mini M2 Pro vs Mac Studio M1 Max.

We have had GREAT improvements of chipsets for the NEW 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pro’s and also the updated Mac Mini with the M2 and M2 Pro.

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M1 24″ iMac; https://amzn.to/2ZKnWjm

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iPad Air: https://amzn.to/3nNvRoI
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Apple; Some shots form their keynote

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This Post Has 47 Comments

  1. Matt Talks Tech

    Do you think its worth getting a M1 MAX Mac Studio once you have Spec'd up RAM and the M2 PRO to the top Specs on the M2 PRO Mac Mini?

  2. Hi, Matt I love your videos , I was planning of getting the iPhone 13 Pro since its price will drop after the release of the 14 series , and a MacBook Pro 14 for my studies and programming , BIG RESPECT FROM ETHIOPIA

  3. Herr Warmduscher

    I just don't have space for the Studio. My M1 Mini sits perfectly under my 42" LG 43UD79 monitor. Only the memory bandwidth is making me consider the Studio. Also, the 1TB M2 Pro Mini comes with a faster SSD (6,000 MB/s SSD) than the 512GB one. The 1TB SSD comes with 4 NAND chips.

  4. Joe Castellon

    I can't wait to see what the M2 Ultra will be capable of 😲

  5. Legend Jasveen

    I am a student and I was thinking of getting a iPhone but a MacBook would also help me and hope you get to 500,000 subscribers soon

  6. Marc B.

    Hard drive speeds are so fast now that slight decreases are still much faster than the 600 Mbs of SATA SSDs.

  7. DVDvision

    They both have no value because they aren't Space Grey. Space Grey pro Mini or Studio Ultra or no buy.

  8. Ahmed aboelnaga

    As a general rule , always get the well spec-d model of the previous year discounted over the new model

    This applies to the pro air mini studio

    Disclaimer ; This rule applies only to M models 😂🤌🏻

  9. mejlgaardbliddal

    I would not mind a M1 Pro 14 inch for traveling as I find my M1 Pro 16 a bit large for traveling. A M2 pro will however force me to buy a new monitor and I don't like the price of true HDR capable monitors and find the price of the SDR capable Studio display to expensive. considering that I am planing on buying either the top end iPhone 15 or the new Panasonic S5x camera when I know the quality of iPhone videos compared to the S5x.

  10. deadstoned

    Thanks for your video. Very informative.

    I've just sold my iMac M1 and my Mac Mini M1 and I think I'm going to buy a Studio if I could find a cheap refurbished or second hand unit.

    Cheers from Spain.

  11. Bo_Hazem

    Mac Studio M2 Max would be the one to get later this year.

  12. E W

    No doubt I will take M2 basic version at education store, and sell it when Mac studio M2 Max announced.

  13. Lothar Scholz

    There is almost no reason for a Mac Studio anymore unless you need the GPU but not for GPU calculation in which case the PC world is laughing at your high price snail speed. It's so far away from a PC with a 3090.

  14. Jas Ken. Moore

    Wow this is so informative. You should open up an academy Matt. You explain things in detail and with knowledge of the products indeed. Based on your reviews; I think the Apple mini has a beautiful build but the Apple studio seems is More a workable device for content creators who wouldn't want to suffer any downtime with projects and yet have a powerhouse.

  15. X Ray

    Apple made a mistake by making M1 storage too fast, really??? 😂😂😂

  16. DJ Selphi

    I got the mac studio when it first came out and no regrets since! Never any issues with cooling, plenty of ports and faster than most current macs

  17. jerry kurata

    I like the front USB and SD card slot on my base M1 studio. Very handy for connection camera gear or SD card.

  18. david guzikowski

    i was leaning towards the mac mini, but now i think the mac studio, as it's packing more, and by time i add to the mac mini to specs i feel would last me the time frame it's in the same price point as the studio

  19. Alien Tech Head

    I would most likely buy the Mac Studio over the M2 Pro Mac Mini, but I’m going to buy the M2 Mac Mini instead!

  20. Rick Karrer

    I'm watching this, even though I already bought the M1 Max Mac Studio lol. I needed the RAM (coming from from 96GB on my 2010 Mac Pro), and the I/O (The Studio doesn't even have the enough ports, I'm stacked with USB hubs).

  21. Mario Pintaric

    This corresponds exactly with my findings, though I compared the M2 Pro Mini with a 1TB SSD which does improve performance. However, the M1 Max Studio base model with a 1TB drive is correspondingly faster. There are some very specific scenarios where you might opt for the M2 Pro Mini, but none of them are performance related. If it's going to sit on your desk only, and you need 32MB of RAM, you've crossed the threshold and should go with the M1 Max Studio. I disagree with the assessment that Apple made a mistake with the SSD drives on older generation models. Being somewhat cynical, I think the reduced SSD performance was adopted to maintain a clear divide between the Mini and Studio. When I paired the Mini with a very fast 5GB/s external drive, I did notice the gap between the Max Studio and Mini shrink further for IO bound tasks. On the GPU side of things, there's nothing you can do with the Mini to close in on the capabilities of the Studio. In this case, you don't get what you paid for unless less (in size) really is more for your use case.

  22. ehelpmann

    There are som advantages with the M2 pro not mentioned:

    – If you are a developer or using a lot of web apps the faster CPU cores mean a lot.
    – For 3D rendering the tiled memory of the M2 GPU can give huge performance gains

  23. Jason Knox

    Apple is really good at getting people to "upgrade just a little more". Start at the base M2 Mac Mini and upgrade to 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD… Then you're just $300 away from an M2 Pro. Upgrade that a bit and then you're at Mac Studio pricing… I doubt I can even make the base M2 sweat, but somehow I briefly considered the M2 Pro… How do they do that?

  24. Hektor1020

    MacStudio have more value. Must wait M3 or what apple lauch next in the future.. M1 Mac Studio was a huge bomb in the market just show power and what apple knows. M2 now have breaks and tricks to force the engines down with business reason i think! MacStudio just better deal to compare….

  25. Errol Schmidt

    Thanks for this video – it was the comparison I was waiting for before buying!

  26. Bryan S

    I'm glad your results confirmed that I made the right decision purchasing a Studio Max last year. That M2 Pro mini is ideally situated at a mid-tier Apple computer, sitting between the M2 mini and the Studio Max.

  27. Hilton Travis

    PLEASE don't be a suck-up Apple apologist regarding their poor performing M2 NAND speeds. It's quite sickening.

  28. Fred Rapoport

    Great video! I’m on the fence but leaning towards M2pro max mini 32gb and 1TB SSD for $1899. I’m a composer running Logic Pro and coming off a 2017 i7 iMac 40Gb ram and 512SSD. I don’t really care about GPU.L Since I don’t cut video. The base mac studio is similarly priced. Would appreciate any input. Oh, I don’t care about 10GB ethernet (Mac studio) Mini does have latest Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and hdmi 2.1. Thank you!

  29. Brian Boni

    The port difference is not as large as you make it out to be as with the new HDMI spec it's like getting double the HDMI connectors.

  30. Paul Harrison

    In around 1988 I bought a Schneider PC/AT 10 MHz for around £700. It had a none standard slower 20 Mb hard disk which is why it was so cheap. It had on board EGA graphics. It revolutionised my gaming and word processing. It wasn't a proprietary system such as the Amiga where the base system was cheap but every upgrade cost a fortune. Over the next three years I upgraded to a 50 Mb hard disk, bought a VGA card and monitor and a bought a higher capacity floppy disk drive.

    Modern Macs are even more restrictive than Amiga's were in 1988. You cant upgrade your storage for any money no matter how much you pay. A Mac Studio with a single plug in 512 Gb flash module cannot have a second one fitted even though this would be a simple plug in option. Linus Tech bought two 512 Gb Mac Studios but found that something in the firmware stopped the 512 Gb flash module from one being used to upgrade the other. Apple's only upgrade path is to buy a completely new system. The cost of extra flash or RAM chips in one of these "upgraded" systems costs around ten times the cost of the chips themselves.

  31. pbelb

    Matt, are you being paid by Apple for these reviews?? 'Apple made a boo-boo in making the M1 so fast' (paraphrased)??? You've got to be kidding. Apple need to show to non-Apple people how good their equipment is versus the alternative. There is no room for producing poorly performing products simply because they chose to populate only some of the board locations, versus populating all the board locations with appropriately sized memory parts. The comparison between M1 studio and M2 pro mini is very timely and informative, due to the overlap in pricing. What I'd like to know is: what's the minimum Mini storage you need to choose to get the best file system performance, and, how do the two compare when considering workloads that actually require the use of the cooling solutions each offers?

  32. Raghav Vijay

    I plan to buy a Mac in 2023-Good luck for 500K subscribers!.You are so close!!.
    This is very interesting indeed,The M1 Max studio is clearly the superior machine and way more worth it,especially at a cheaper price.Also with the faster ssds i feel it really worth it,However the M2 pro may be enough for most people even at lower configurations and so in that case that might be better for longevity and a bit more power !!.Anyway thanks so much Matt for your great content-Keep it up!.

  33. perosa gathungu

    Yes i ges it depends on the user his or her personal preference needs and how much they are ready to spend on the mac .I think that's the major determiner like for example I love the iphone 14 pro for what it offers how powerful it is just elegant and the security

  34. Slainiae

    The M2 Mac Mini would be suitable for 99.5% of the jobs that I'd do.

  35. Ted Longakit

    M2 Pro is best value since its the newest chipset, it will have an advantage when it comes to future updates.

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