41-50k Get Apple mac mini M4 within 50k without student discount

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Apple is currently offering an instant cashback of ₹3,000 on the Mac Mini. By purchasing the Mac Mini with an M4 chip(16GB,256GB) regular price ₹59,900 using an ICICI Bank credit card, you can avail a no-cost EMI plan for up to 24 months. This makes the Mac Mini available for under ₹50,000, even if you're not a student. If you choose to cancel the EMI plan by contacting the bank, the effective price becomes approximately ₹49,000.
 
rushikesh_jadhav said:
Apple is currently offering an instant cashback of ₹3,000 on the Mac Mini.
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It was 4,000 on HDFC cards last month. I'm guessing these offers come and go.

Amazon:
 

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Uvula said:
Isn't that storage too low ? I know we can add external storage, but still
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I guess it... depends.
If all you do is browsing the internet, 256G is more than enough.
I have a 256G M1 Mac for work, and it's been chugging along fine, though we also use S3 as hot storage, so that counts.

Honestly, as long as you're not
  • A gamer
  • A datahoarder
  • A creative user
  • Someone who uses their PC to backup their phone pictures
Then, 256G should be good enough imo
Setup a NAS along with it and it's pretty much the best bang for the buck solution in terms of efficiency and processing power.

But as soon as you go for higher RAM and storage, M4 Mac Mini very quickly loses its price to performance ratio imo
 
KAKAN said:
I guess it... depends.
If all you do is browsing the internet, 256G is more than enough.
I have a 256G M1 Mac for work, and it's been chugging along fine, though we also use S3 as hot storage, so that counts.

Honestly, as long as you're not
  • A gamer
  • A datahoarder
  • A creative user
  • Someone who uses their PC to backup their phone pictures
Then, 256G should be good enough imo
Setup a NAS along with it and it's pretty much the best bang for the buck solution in terms of efficiency and processing power.

But as soon as you go for higher RAM and storage, M4 Mac Mini very quickly loses its price to performance ratio imo
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If all you do is browse internet then you don’t need mac. The fact that you can get 2 units of base m4 mini for same price to max out upgrades for 1 is crazy. Ram and storage are so cheap. Definitely would suggest to get aftermarket 1tb replacement.
 
jayanttyagi said:
If all you do is browse internet then you don’t need mac. The fact that you can get 2 units of base m4 mini for same price to max out upgrades for 1 is crazy. Ram and storage are so cheap. Definitely would suggest to get aftermarket 1tb replacement.
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Databricks uses so much CPU, it heats up i7 thinkpads to an uncomfortable level.
Depends on the websites. Excel Online for bigger workbooks does the same.

So yeah, def not as simple.
 
jayanttyagi said:
Which gen i7? You know you can open shared excel in app as well right?
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I have a gen 13 i7 xps ..
compared to even m1, let alone say m3 pro or m4 , it feels sluggish most of the time for excel/ppt/outlook usage..
for two reasons

Unplugging it makes the system become really slow (efficiency cores perhaps?) . I have tried to counter it by increasing the min cpu clock in power settings from 5% to 40% but that ends up impacting battery life heavily.
While plugged, its fast.. But once a lot of windows and background tasks get invoked, it tends to get quite warm and gets slow again.. better than when on battery but the drop in speed is still perceptible
 
jayanttyagi said:
Which gen i7? You know you can open shared excel in app as well right?
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12th gen. I'm just saying there are web apps that use/need an absolute ****ton of processing power. And large excels can make the app lag too, btw. 200MB+ is enough to make M1 Excel reconsider it's life, and 100MB+ for the i7 ones. And that's with very few formulas, too. Ofc, they're not calculating on every change, cause it'd just die if you did that.

Databricks, Clickup, a lot of productive apps, large GitHub Actions etc

Ofc, there's also JetBrains IDE, and all the Intellisense etc

A lot of development work also needs a powerful processor and can work with little storage.

I'm just saying there are needs for M4 base model, and 256G can be good enough.
 
KAKAN said:
12th gen. I'm just saying there are web apps that use/need an absolute ****ton of processing power. And large excels can make the app lag too, btw. 200MB+ is enough to make M1 Excel reconsider it's life, and 100MB+ for the i7 ones. And that's with very few formulas, too. Ofc, they're not calculating on every change, cause it'd just die if you did that.

Databricks, Clickup, a lot of productive apps, large GitHub Actions etc

Ofc, there's also JetBrains IDE, and all the Intellisense etc

A lot of development work also needs a powerful processor and can work with little storage.

I'm just saying there are needs for M4 base model, and 256G can be good enough.
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Your earlier statement was incorrect. Its not just browsing internet as you said in earlier post :) the things you have mentioned are proper productivity apps. Be it web apps. My statement is still correct that you don’t need mac if all you wanna do is browse internet.
 
KAKAN said:
I'm just saying there are needs for M4 base model, and 256G can be good enough.
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Every purchase involves some compromises.
The M1 MBA 256gb i purchased in 2020 is quite possibly one my best and most heavily used tech purchase in decades.
I recently sold it because of other upgrades - and i sometimes regret doing that . Never once did i feel that i am hindered by 256GB.
And while it did involve extensive usage of icloud and leaving large media files etc on a NAS, it was more than a fair compromise

With a static machine like The base M4 mini , the 256 is thankfully a compromise that is very easy to get around with zero practical disadvantages even if one does not want use icloud or NAS etc.

And yes, couldn't agree more that web browsing is quite a taxing activity on even the latest and greatest processors today.
Leaving aside niche use cases like video editing and conversion (yes, these are niche activities unlike what YT reviewers would claim :p)
The lowest battery life yield on a x64 laptop would come with constant normal everyday browsing as against other typical use cases like working on say outlook/word or watching a movie
 
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jayanttyagi said:
Your earlier statement was incorrect. Its not just browsing internet as you said in earlier post :) the things you have mentioned are proper productivity apps. Be it web apps. My statement is still correct that you don’t need mac if all you wanna do is browse internet.
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Browsing too, it's just that I can't provide concrete examples. Researching about a topic through multiple websites, or browsing flight prices on multiple sites can also heavily bog down a PC.

Sure, you can claim that those aren't browsing either since you're actively doing something, but I never really browse any other way?

In any case, sorry. My bad, I should've been more clear. You're right.
 
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