90K+ Macbook M4 Pro or Mac Mini M4

[rushikesh_jadhav]

Currently apple is giving instant cashback of 3k + no cost EMI up to 24 months. you can get mac min m4(16,256) within 50 k even if you are not student by purchasing with ICICI bank credit card with 24 months no cost EMI. if we cancel the Emi by calling to bank the effective price becomes around 49k. I am not sure that we are allowed to cancel this EMI or not though. can anyone confirm please?

 

[princeoo7]

if you choose the laptop, Get the base storage variant.
Spend the saves on a Thunderbolt enclosure and 2TB or 4TB SSD instead.
512GB will be adequate for all your documents and other base data. Any large projects can sit at your desk


The newer USB4/TB drives actually do match up onboard storage and are extremely reliable.
Macs in fact see them as PCIE drives connected to the PCIE bus (and not a USB drive)

any suggestions for Thunderbolt enclosure? I ended up with Mac mini for now with 512gb which is around 484gb and I nearly have 60 to 70 gb free XD

 

[superczar]

any suggestions for Thunderbolt enclosure? I ended up with Mac mini for now with 512gb which is around 484gb and I nearly have 60 to 70 gb free XD

I have a ASM2464PD based enclosure called NewQ something. Real world Seq R/W are around 3-4GB/s
My understanding is that anything with Jmicron asm2464 is the preferred option followed by JHL7440.

these enclosures used to be around 7-8K but limited supply (would have been a niche item in India) coupled with sudden demand spike (Mac mini release) has pushed the prices up for now.

 

[princeoo7]

I have a ASM2464PD based enclosure called NewQ something. Real world Seq R/W are around 3-4GB/s
My understanding is that anything with Jmicron asm2464 is the preferred option followed by JHL7440.

these enclosures used to be around 7-8K but limited supply (would have been a niche item in India) coupled with sudden demand spike (Mac mini release) has pushed the prices up for now.

yes, I can see some selling for 82$ but in India its 13.4K or something :/ Samsung T9 2Tb going for 21k or something ...

 

[superczar]

yes, I can see some selling for 82$ but in India its 13.4K or something :/ Samsung T9 2Tb going for 21k or something ...

yeah, the same units were 7-8K till not too long ago.
give it perhaps a few months as more importers would have placed orders by now

 

[desiibond]

any suggestions for Thunderbolt enclosure? I ended up with Mac mini for now with 512gb which is around 484gb and I nearly have 60 to 70 gb free XD

First, glad that you did not fall for '256GB is enough' misleading suggestions. I hope you now understood why I went with 1TB (as it is a MBP and I cannot carry it around with an external drive plugged in all the time). Do not waste your money on TB4 enclosures 'yet'. Cheap ones come with lot of issues and last thing you want is for your data to go corrupt. Can you share screenshot of your mac's storage page from settings? Lets see how you can free up onboard storage without spending too much. Why go with TB4 enclosures and all if there is possibility of going for normal external SSD.

Also, Apple does not like USB 3.2 as much as Thunderbolt, thanks to lack of support for USB's 2x2 standards that allows higher speeds. Look for Samsung T7 vs T9 speed comparisons on mac. Not much difference though T9 advertises double the speed in normal operations. The key difference is when you transfer huge amount of data that needs more cache (T9 has some 120GB cache, T7 has 50GB I think). So, unless you use the same drive to record log from iPhone etc, think again about spending so much for USB 3.2 external storage. If you really want fast SSDs, check Sandisk's G40 that support TB3. To get best possible speeds, you have to shell out a lot for USB4 or TB4 storage. IMHO, not worth it unless your job depends on it.