Week in the Life Switching to M4 Mac Mini from M3 MacBook Pro

it's cold outside but the fire keeps us warm we can't SP the night the M of to it's cold what's up everyone my name is Jossie I'm an ex sofware engineer in my 20s and this is what life after a 9 and5 in Tech looks like I recognize a privil I have being my own boss now but despite that my schedule was all over the place since I'm spending more time posting higher quality videos and going all in on being a tech Creator in New York City there are some days that I actually find I have less time than I did back when I was balancing both a 9-5 and content creation so I've been using reclaim AI to manage my calendar and time blocking more to come from reclaim AI in the coming weeks as we close out the year with a full head of steam going into 2025 on this week's agenda I want to be able to complete all three of my virtual personal training sessions run 25 km cuz I joined the December 100 km running challenge don't ask why I have a couple car shoots to do for Chevy an apple intelligence event and that's right testing out the Mac Mini M4 and swapping out the M3 Pro MacBook Pro for the week so let's see how that goes the weather looks like it's going to be absolutely trash this week either brick or 50 to 60° with rain we're getting literally two seasons in one spring and winter this week but that's the East Coast for you not going to let that stop us [Music] so I started out the day downloading my most most used apps notion and chrome before making breakfast as expected I had no issues downloading and installing my favorite web browser and productivity app on the Mac Mini M4 all right guys so yesterday I was very much under the weather and technically Tuesday I wasn't feeling my greatest but I was feeling good enough to go out pick up the Mac Mini M4 base model and get my desk set up situated by swapping out the MacBook Pro for the Mac Mini and I've been able to play around with the Mac Mini the last like I'd say more like 24 hours not a ton cuz yesterday I spent a lot more time in Manhattan than I expected and then I came back and I was just like way too tired like you I was cooked so I just basically fell asleep by like 5:00 p.m. while simultaneously setting up the Mac Mini I took the opportunity to get the apartment in order starting with the dishes I personally feel like I can't think straight if the kitchen is a mess I can deal with somewhat messy living room but the kitchen and the home office need to be spotless you know how it goes when your workspace is clean your mind is clear I did some general tidying up straightened out my desk area and made sure everything was organized for tomorrow shoot [Music] I'm I've been really focused on my nutrition lately made this absolutely incredible omelette as my first meal of the day hitting those macro targets while actually tasting amazing [Music] it's crazy how much better food tastes when you're actually hungry and cooking with intention or when you just simply have proper ingredients like I did today yeah this omelette definitely smacked I'm still shaking off being under the weather especially after yesterday's Apple event in the city taking it easy today was definitely the move since I've got the final car shoot for the Equinox tomorrow I need to get this draft over to General Motors but man the forecast is looking brutal [Music] talking nearly freezing temperatures not exactly ideal conditions but sometimes you got to embrace a challenge and at least it's going to be sunny tomorrow for now though it's all about rest and Recovery to make sure I'm ready to battle those temperatures tomorrow now you guys know I said I had a goal of running 25 km this week unfortunately that's looking real slow however today is all about getting settled with the creative workflow on the Mac Mini i k things off by installing all my go-to productivity and creative apps flow Adobe Creative Cloud Premiere Pro Lightroom classic and Photoshop the installation process was pretty smooth which was a good first impression given how resource heavy the Creative Cloud applications can be and it only took around 10 minutes or so to download all four of the Creative Cloud applications I also enjoyed using Apple intelligence handsfree with Siri opening up the flow Pomodoro Timer using voice commands [Music] so there are several noteworthy updates that the Mac Mini M4 bring to the table for one it's powered by the M4 chip so it has a 10 core CPU 10 core GPU for the base model and up to 14 core CPU and up to a 20 core GPU for the pro model the new models boast a significant performance boost the M4 delivers up to 1.8 8X faster CPU and 2.2x faster GPU performance compared to the M1 and the neural engine is over three times faster it has an improved Ram in storage starting with 16 gigs of RAM double the previous base model in the M3 and is expandable to up to 32 GB on the M4 or 64 GB with the M4 Pro it has a modular SSD for potential future upgrades and the new design also includes faster dual module SSD configurations for improved read WR speeds and for me what's really important as a content creator is the fact that it supports up to 2 6K and 1K 5K displays on the M4 and up to 3 6K displays the M4 Pro chip in the Mac Mini now I don't think I would ever have three 6K displays but nonetheless when it comes to supporting an external display it's pretty future proof I'm not sure it'll be great for gaming but I am expecting it to perform okay at least for the base model in terms of scrubbing through my Premiere Pro timeline exporting rendering footage playback speeds which is important for those who are in the content creator or just creative space whether it's Premiere Pro Lightroom or photoshop so if this video is interesting to you at all give it a thumbs up because I'm really excited to see what it's like to build out a few small or you could say pet projects with the base Mac Mini M4 all right so I'm going to step away from the Mac Mini for a little bit because I actually have to pick up this car that I've been loaned from Chevy so shout out to Chevy for loaning me the Equinox 2025 and we've been working on a campaign the last week and I'm really excited and this is the last day and it's of course the warm days in New York were Tuesday and Wednesday and they were the rainiest days like almost impossible to film and then today is beautiful and sunny but it's brick like I think it's I think the high is 42 which isn't horrible and we'll be in the car most of the time so hopefully we'll be toasty enough to withstand this really cold weather in New York to film the last day of this campaign but I'm really excited it the weather app does say It's windy and I don't even want to look at it's not focusing I don't even want to know what it says of temperature feels like it feels like 26 so I hope you all are enjoying this you could say new series where I'm no longer working in Tech and this is what my weekend of lives look like after being a software engineer and working at 9 to-5 all right good morning guys so yesterday we had the shoot and it went really really well I am so excited to post this video well I'm just excited to get the draft out to the general Motors team so just feeling extremely blessed to be able to film car content living in New York as someone who doesn't even own a car um but obviously there's an appeal to creating car content and working with creators in New York City and it's something I want to do more I'm just trying to figure out like how can I create more organic car content cuz all the car content I've pretty much done in the past has been sponsored content so I'm just trying to figure that out I did go to a g event about 2 weeks ago or La was it last week and it was at Manhattan car club and I'm not saying I'm going to get a membership there but I am going to go to an event sometime in the new year and hopefully I can Network and just figure out ways to get my hands on you know like Porsche Mercedes some of the more like luxurious cars that have a ton of like technology or just like supercars I think it's really fun as a tech Creator to make those type of videos I'm on a tangent I'm actually looking at my calendar to see what I have today supposed to go to the gym Monday Wednesday and Thursday and since I was under the weather I didn't get a chance to so I'm going to do a leg workout here shortly but I'm going to edit this video in cap cut I posted a Mac Mini like pickup video it's like a vlog and it did really well on Tik Tok and I feel like it should do well on IG but most importantly I just want to get the video out so what I'm going to do is I'm going to test what it's like to use the Mac Mini for video editing and cap cut it's a lot less intensive application and I'm just using iPhone like 4K 24 frames per second footage last night the Mac Mini did get hot enough to fry an egg all right I didn't get that hot but I was editing 4K 10bit footage so I I have to look at how large the actual Premiere profile was it did struggle once I started rendering and exporting footage I think it did a decent job with exporting after I did my second render and second export the Mac Mini started freezing up and lagging and just moving really slow which is sort of expected for the base model I don't expect it to be able to scrub render and Export footage as well as the M3 Pro chip considering this is just the M4 chip like I mentioned earlier I really do want to put it through its I really do want to put the Mac Mini M4 through its Paces with a coding like software development setup I don't want to do that for this video because I think that should be its own video which is why I'm focused on the more creative and like logistical administrative tasks so like using notion housing Through Safari installing productivity applications and doing light video editing [Music] [Music] so the Mac Mini had zero issues handling a 20 second short form video and cap cut I was able to easily stabilize camera footage in seconds and even export a 23 second video and cap cut with no lag [Music] [Music] that's [Music] all right guys so since we got the whip I figured I'd pull up the queens and go to one of my favorite vintage furniture stores probably my favorite furniture store in all of New York called Leen New York City and yeah it's just pretty far in Queen so it would just take maybe 40 minutes to take a train and I haven't came here in a long time it's been like maybe maybe almost 8 months now maybe even longer than that actually they carry a few of my favorite Brands like man Miller and USM and my favorite thing about the store is one the location it's nice to be able to come to Queens cuz I'm never in a sporl the store is beautiful it's basically laid out how I would lay out our home if we had a massive Loft space and we came and I came here specifically for the man Miller canopy like kitchen table it's not I think the table's perfect outside the legs are black and we prefer silver but let's see when we get in the store [Music] [Music] now [Music] [Music] so here's my first impression of the base model M4 Mac Mini if you're looking for a cost effective machine for everyday productivity light content creation portability isn't a priority and you aren't utilizing media so 256 GB of storage will suffice then the Mac Mini can be a fantastic option even though I do have a hard time accepting the fact that it's still $600 with only $200 56 GB of storage if you're planning to do heavy video editing or intensive multitasking utilizing more complex and intensive graphical applications you might want to consider other options the value proposition really just depends on your specific needs I know that over 50% of you all are not subscribers so please consider subscribing we're trying to get to 200k subscribers before the end of the year and that wraps up today's video Stay Blessed fam peace [Music]