If I buy a Mac Mini M2, with 8GB RAM, can I get Apple to put in more RAM later?

I know that everyone says 8 GB RAM is not enough but believe me it is . . . unless you are a high end professional editing 8K all day long with tight deadlines.

I have been using a 2017 iMac with 8 GB RAM for the past 7 years editing 1080p and 4K videos with no problems in Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

A month ago I got the cheapest M2 Mac mini and it blows the iMac out of the water being at least 3 times faster.

Don't worry about the small 256 GB SSD either as you can buy high quality USB 3.0 SSDs of 1 TB for £50 - £80.

If you buy an M2 with a 1 TB SSD installed it will set you back a further £400.

No. RAM is soldered in on all of the Apple Silicon Macs.

Order as much as you need, because you will not have the chance to add more later.

The cheapest ones available from a "known" company.

The i5 mini on the left was bought in 2014 together with the cheap Benq 24" 1080p monitor for about £100 and I got the M2 mini and Philips 27" 1080p monitor for £110.

If you compare them side by side with the 27" iMac 5K Retina screen they are not as good . . . big surprise! But when you are working at them you don't notice that they are much cheaper.

This is my setup . . . the SSDs are circled. I have 2 of them, both 1 TB. The small Samsung was £80 and the larger Crucial was £50.

I don't know how tech savvy you are but I actually have the mini booted off one of the plugin SSDs so the internal SSD does not get any wear at all!

As the USB 3.0 SSDs are much slower than the mini's own SSD you would assume the computer would run slower but it doesn't.

Bench tests and real world editing are just as fast. The only thing that would be slower would be copying huge files but how often do you do that?

Thank you for this. I have a cheap monitor which looks really blurry with my M1 Air plugged in. I guess it's because it has a low PPI. I think I should search for something bigger with a higher pixel density.

Cheers

No, you must order the new silicon Mac mini with more RAM.

To do that, go to > Buy Mac mini - Apple

Hi Saka87

You can connect most any 4K or 5K display to the M2 Mac mini's HDMI or TB/USB-C port.

see > Connect a display to Mac mini - Apple Support

Hey Ian

What displays do you use for your Mac Mini's?

I am in the process of getting a Mac Mini M2, so I am shopping for a new display as well

Thank you

Any 1080p monitor should give really sharp images unless it is defective.

Thanks for sharing that, if you try m2 Mini with 4K monitor, could you tell us the feeling of the difference, thanks