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As for the name, the video calls the shrunken computer the вЂMac Mini Mini,вЂ™ but Nelson says you can вЂCall it whatever you want.вЂ™ Only time will tell how it performs months from now, but the computer seems to boot up fine and run without issue.

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In the end, Nelson ended up with a Mac Mini that was just 28% the volume of the original Mac Mini. The simplified internals fit 'like a glove' inside the new 3D-printed enclosure. Nelson then used a filament-based 3D printer to make the internals required to hold everything in place and piecde it all together. With the CAD file in hand, it was just a matter of selecting the color and making the print. Unfrotuantely, even the more compact form factor was too large for his Elegoo and Prusa resin printers, so he contacted Phrozen, who sent them its Mega Sonic 8K 3D resin printer, which has a print volume of 33cm (13вЂќ) x 18.5cm (7.25вЂќ) x 40cm (15.75вЂќ). After many iterations, Nelson determined the best bet would be to create a custom resin 3D-printed enclosure. The final step was to create a custom housing that the more compact internals could fit inside. The Phrozen Mega Sonic 8K 3D resin printer at work making the final casing for the 'Mac Mini Mini.' With some clever calculations and soldering, Mike managed to hook up a female MagSafe input onto the Mac Mini MiniвЂ™s board and sure enough, the improvised setup worked.

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Since the original power supply-which was simply carried over from the much more power-intensive Intel processors-was much more powerful than the M1 Mac Mini needs even running full capacity, the pair opted to create a FrankensteinвЂ™d external power supply that used a Microsoft Surface power supply that terminated into a MagSafe connector that Apple is once again using in its MacBook Pro lineup. Nelson's new 'Mac Mini Mini' sitting atop a standard M1 Mac Mini.ДЇor the power supply, which proved to be вЂthe elephant in the room,вЂ™ Nelson turned to Mike of MikeGuyver computers to come up with a custom solution.

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So, he tossed the fan and rear I/O panel and more or less only kept the main board, which has nearly all of the I/O soldered on, as well as the array of various sensors and antennas used for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the like. While the fan does act as an active way to keep the M1 chipset cool, Nelson said he ran some benchmarks and found out the Mac Mini performs just as well without the fan, which shouldnвЂ™t come as too much of a surprise considering AppleвЂ™s M1-based MacBook Air eschews the fan to keep its form factor compact.

After all, itвЂ™s been known that AppleвЂ™s M1 chipset is much more compact than its previous Intel-based computers, hinting that there might be quite a bit of extra internal real estate, since the M1 Mac Mini uses an effectively identical housing as the Intel models.ДЄfter fidgeting around inside and poring over all of the required components, Nelson realized he could save a large amount of space by removing the cooling fan, the power supply unit and rear I/O panel. How much smaller? Well, according to Nelson, he was able to shrink the volume of the computer by 72% through the removal of some components and a cleverly-printed 3D enclosure.ДЄs Nelson details in the video, the first step was to take apart the M1 Mac Mini and see what was necessary and what could be removed. While itвЂ™s taken a while to achieve what he set out to do, the вЂMac Mini MiniвЂ™ is alive and well, showing just how much smaller Apple could make future Mac Mini computers if it wanted to. Since the M1 Mac Mini was released, Nelson said heвЂ™s wanted to tear one down to see whatвЂ™s inside and determine whether or not itвЂ™s possible to further shrink the compact desktop computer. But, if this latest video from YouTuber Quinn Nelson from Snazzy Labs is anything to go by, Apple could manage to shrink the device even further. AppleвЂ™s Mac Mini is one of the smaller all-in-one computers youвЂ™ll find on the market.