It performs quite well and is great for video editing on my level. Especially when adding extra harddrive space yourself (handy dock with NVME drive that I set up as an ' internal drive ' with an applications folder and library folder on the NVME drive) instead of the need to sell a vital organ to acquire the funds to upgrade hardware or ram. I think upgrading a base model with Apple is not the way to go. Use the cash you'd spend on the one up on a base M4Pro machine I'd say. If you do want higher specs, getting a M4Pro MacMini might be reasonable when it comes to getting even more performance CPU/GPU wise with more RAM and storage that comes with it. That's more power and similar storage than you'll get for the same amount upgrading a M4 Mini base model - you need to do that upon purchase as none of the items like storage or memory is user upgradeable. Although the ' NVME ' type storage inside the unit is of the removable/replaceable Apple proprietary variety which is NOT user replaceable - some seem hopefull Apple might (eh... never) make upgrades available or third party solutions might evolve - reverse engineered or salvaged from a higher specced dead Apple device.
Look forward to further testing and your findings. Seems awesome for the price/performance from what I have seen.
It performs quite well and is great for video editing on my level. Especially when adding extra harddrive space yourself (handy dock with NVME drive that I set up as an ' internal drive ' with an applications folder and library folder on the NVME drive) instead of the need to sell a vital organ to acquire the funds to upgrade hardware or ram.
I think upgrading a base model with Apple is not the way to go. Use the cash you'd spend on the one up on a base M4Pro machine I'd say.
If you do want higher specs, getting a M4Pro MacMini might be reasonable when it comes to getting even more performance CPU/GPU wise with more RAM and storage that comes with it. That's more power and similar storage than you'll get for the same amount upgrading a M4 Mini base model - you need to do that upon purchase as none of the items like storage or memory is user upgradeable. Although the ' NVME ' type storage inside the unit is of the removable/replaceable Apple proprietary variety which is NOT user replaceable - some seem hopefull Apple might (eh... never) make upgrades available or third party solutions might evolve - reverse engineered or salvaged from a higher specced dead Apple device.