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System Name | daily driver Mac mini M2 Pro |
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Processor | Apple proprietary M2 Pro (6 p-cores, 4 e-cores) |
Motherboard | Apple proprietary |
Cooling | Apple proprietary |
Memory | Apple proprietary 16GB LPDDR5 unified memory |
Video Card(s) | Apple proprietary M2 Pro (16-core GPU) |
Storage | Apple proprietary onboard 512GB SSD + various external HDDs |
Display(s) | LG UltraFine 27UL850W (4K@60Hz IPS) |
Case | Apple proprietary |
Audio Device(s) | Apple proprietary |
Power Supply | Apple proprietary |
Mouse | Apple Magic Trackpad 2 |
Keyboard | Keychron K1 tenkeyless (Gateron Reds) |
VR HMD | Oculus Rift S (hosted on a different PC) |
Software | macOS Sonoma 14.7 |
Benchmark Scores | (My Windows daily driver is a Beelink Mini S12 Pro. I'm not interested in benchmarking.) |
Probably but,
I'll give the guy credit as he really is one of the first, if it not the first, of the PC tech reviewers who turned himself into a brand...
LOL, Linus missed being the first by a quarter century.
Guys like Thomas Pabst and teenager Anand Shimpi were really the pioneers in turning themselves into PC review brands. Both started publishing hardware reviews on this little ol' strange thing called the World Wide Web back in the Nineties when everyone was else was still pumping out deadtrees magazines.
Note that both web domains still exist and are recognized as credible PC tech media sources.
Linus does communicate to a younger generation but his coverage isn't groundbreaking in the slightest. In 2023 many people tend to forget or ignore the early pioneers of the WWW and believe that today's popular people are the innovators. Today people stand on the shoulders of giants and sometimes see farther, but there's very little in PC hardware review in 2023 that hasn't been done before decades ago.
This is pretty much the same with any online media. People today are shortsighted and forget real online media pioneers like Danni Ashe, Justin Kan, Chris Wolfe & Tom Anderson (Myspace), etc.
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