Mac mini 4 pro- noisy / high temps?

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Thinking of getting a Mac mini 4 pro, will use for Lightroom and a bit of PS.
Have seen a few reviews where they mention fan noise and high temps, anyone experience this using LR and PS use?
TIA
 
nog said:
Thinking of getting a Mac mini 4 pro, will use for Lightroom and a bit of PS.
Have seen a few reviews where they mention fan noise and high temps, anyone experience this using LR and PS use?
TIA
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I have an M4 Max Mac Studio and is pretty much silent, so much so it was a bit weird at first as I haven't had a Mac in donkeys years and have been using windows. My mate has a top of the spec M4 Pro Mac Mini and his is also whisper quiet, he says the fans only come on in high power mode. My Mac Studio doesn't have a high power mode as it always runs in high power.

Spec will make a difference as well as if you are looking at one of the entry level specs the machine might struggle more and need the fans more often.
 
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ecoleman said:
I have a M1 Max Studio.

Never heard the fans come on.
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I have a low spec M1 Mini and I don't even know if it has a fan, as I've never heard one. Photo wise I only use Affinity, but I also use it for recording music with Reaper and a few plug in and it's never got hot.
 
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Thanks all for posts, believe the M4 has better temps than the M4 pro so less fan noise while the M4 pro is pretty good until it comes under heave load. The studio being a lot bigger is quiet nearly all the time. Studio seems the favourite at the moment unless I look at my wallet
 
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Thanks all for posts, believe the M4 has better temps than the M4 pro so less fan noise while the M4 pro is pretty good until it comes under heave load. The studio being a lot bigger is quiet nearly all the time. Studio seems the favourite at the moment unless I look at my wallet
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I am really impressed with mine. Don't forget about the education discount if you know some thats registered with Unidays I used my daughters and it saved about £300.00.

This is the spec i went for.

Apple M4 Max chip with 16‑core CPU, 40‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine
64GB unified memory
1TB SSD storage

I am using it with a 4tb Samsung 990 NVME and a thuderbolt 5 enclosure.

Thing is lightning fast and quiet as a mouse.
 
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f/2.8 said:
I am really impressed with mine. Don't forget about the education discount if you know some thats registered with Unidays I used my daughters and it saved about £300.00.

This is the spec i went for.

Apple M4 Max chip with 16‑core CPU, 40‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine
64GB unified memory
1TB SSD storage

I am using it with a 4tb Samsung 990 NVME and a thuderbolt 5 enclosure.

Thing is lightning fast and quiet as a mouse.
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That is the spec I was looking at. Thanks for the unidays tip, good saving there
mstphoto said:
I have the Mac mini Pro 4 and I haven't heard the fan come on once.
As for high temps - its a wee bit warm but not overly so
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Really like the small size of the mini pro, do you use Lightroom/photoshop and the AI remove/denoise stuff. TIA
 
nog said:
Thinking of getting a Mac mini 4 pro, will use for Lightroom and a bit of PS.
Have seen a few reviews where they mention fan noise and high temps, anyone experience this using LR and PS use?
TIA
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Not sure what the reviewers used the Mac for but I think you’d need to be doing something pretty significant in LR/PS to get the fan going. I use the Studio and have never heard the fan when using image processing software. I use it to edit short 4k videos. Again, never comes on.
 
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dragonfly said:
Not sure what the reviewers used the Mac for but I think you’d need to be doing something pretty significant in LR/PS to get the fan going. I use the Studio and have never heard the fan when using image processing software. I use it to edit short 4k videos. Again, never comes on.
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Yes I don't think I have seen any reports of noisy studios, seen a few about the mini 4 pro having high temps and noisy fans especially if playing games - though I don't play games on mac. As usual I am probably overthinking/dithering
 
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