Month: September 2026

Don’t Buy The M5 Pro Mac Mini For Video Editing! (Here’s What I’d Buy Instead)

The M5 Pro Mac Mini has the exact same media engines as the $899 base M6, so here’s the Mac Mini I’d actually buy for video editing at three different price points.

The $10 Mod Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know About (M5 MacBook Air)

The M5 MacBook Air has the same chip as the M5 MacBook Pro, but no fan, so it gets heavily thermal throttled. Here is the 10 dollar thermal pad mod that got me a 32% faster Lightroom export, plus the honest video editing and gaming numbers.

3DMark Apple benchmarks DaVinci Resolve Lightroom M5 MacBook Air MacBook Air MacBook mod thermal pad thermal throttling Video Editing

Month: September 2026

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