Are there other causes and solutions I should fix? (Save hardware problems and repairs).Is a full and reinstall likely to fix the problem?.Is the problem simply due to the CPU being a i5? Are i5's ridiculously much slower than i7's?.Is the Mini actually designed for and supposed to get so warm (100 degrees celsius)?.The guy who sold me the thing said he already reinstalled it, but he may not have done a full format first.īefore I go through the trouble of formatting and reinstalling, does anyone have experiences and tips to share of similar situations? Encoding PAL videos to mp4 with ffmpeg goes extremely slow (around 1 second of footage per second, while for comparison my MacBook Air 2014 manages 5 seconds per second)Īpple said "80% of the times doing a full format and reinstall solves problems like this".The process VTDecoderXPCService sometimes takes several hundred percent while playing video.Indicated CPU usage in Activity Monitor seems to increase proportionately with CPU temperature (and how long the machine has been on), but this is somewhat unsure.The iMac (and previous Minis) never got anywhere near as hot. The machine gets extremely hot, at most CPU temperature 101 degrees according to my temperature utility.Playing mp4 movies in both QuickTime, VLC and in webpages in Safari works fine for some time, but after a while starts lagging.I used to have a iMac 2006 earlier, and to my surprise the Mini 2011 seems to be much, much slower.
I think you're safe getting the Intel version and upgrading your own RAM.I just bought a Mac Mini (mid 2011) secondhand with the following specifications: They did NOT replace any of the 'pro' level models. The M1 was meant as an entry level to replace the low end dual/quad-core Intel chips. So based on their testing we could assume the i5/i7 model would be equal or faster than the M1. I would say we will have macOS support to 2025 at the earliest of 2030 at the max.
And I would say support will go beyond that 2 year since they released new models this year. It's a 2 year transition in which Apple said at WWDC they would continue to support & release Intel models during that 2 year transition. And the Ram is user-upgradable on the 2018/2020 model. Remember the i5 is a 6-core desktop class processor. On the Mac mini page they test the M1 Mac mini with 2TB SSD & 16GB RAM against the 2018/2020 quad-core i3 with 2TB SSD & 16GB RAM. Apple's websites claims of faster has tests in the fine print on the bottom of the product pages.
They are also still selling the higher-end 13-inch MBP with Intel. They are still selling the 'Pro' model Mac minis of 2018/2020 with the i5/i7.
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