Nelson's new 'Mac Mini Mini' sitting atop a standard M1 Mac Mini.įor the power supply, which proved to be ‘the elephant in the room,’ Nelson turned to Mike of MikeGuyver computers to come up with a custom solution.
So, he tossed the fan and rear I/O panel and more or less only kept the main board, which has nearly all of the I/O soldered on, as well as the array of various sensors and antennas used for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the like. While the fan does act as an active way to keep the M1 chipset cool, Nelson said he ran some benchmarks and found out the Mac Mini performs just as well without the fan, which shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise considering Apple’s M1-based MacBook Air eschews the fan to keep its form factor compact. After all, it’s been known that Apple’s M1 chipset is much more compact than its previous Intel-based computers, hinting that there might be quite a bit of extra internal real estate, since the M1 Mac Mini uses an effectively identical housing as the Intel models.Īfter fidgeting around inside and poring over all of the required components, Nelson realized he could save a large amount of space by removing the cooling fan, the power supply unit and rear I/O panel. How much smaller? Well, according to Nelson, he was able to shrink the volume of the computer by 72% through the removal of some components and a cleverly-printed 3D enclosure.Īs Nelson details in the video, the first step was to take apart the M1 Mac Mini and see what was necessary and what could be removed. While it’s taken a while to achieve what he set out to do, the ‘Mac Mini Mini’ is alive and well, showing just how much smaller Apple could make future Mac Mini computers if it wanted to. Since the M1 Mac Mini was released, Nelson said he’s wanted to tear one down to see what’s inside and determine whether or not it’s possible to further shrink the compact desktop computer. But, if this latest video from YouTuber Quinn Nelson from Snazzy Labs is anything to go by, Apple could manage to shrink the device even further.
Apple’s Mac Mini is one of the smaller all-in-one computers you’ll find on the market.
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