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| System Name | daily driver Mac mini M2 Pro |
|---|---|
| Processor | Apple Silicon 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 Silicon M2 Pro (16-core GPU) |
| Storage | Apple proprietary 512GB SSD + various external HDDs |
| Display(s) | LG 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) |
| Software | macOS Ventura 13.6 (including latest patches) |
| Benchmark Scores | (My Windows daily driver is a Beelink Mini S12. I'm not interested in benchmarking.) |
That's not how the PC testers do it. Ambient temperature is the air OUTSIDE of the case because that's the air that the fans are sucking into the chassis to cool the PC components. Then they take case measurements of various components to see how they are being cooled.
We've already gone over this before. If the PC is turned off and has been that way for several hours, all of the components will be at that ambient temperature right outside of the case. That is the baseline measurement. If your room is cold maybe all of the components will be at 18 °C. If your room is warm, maybe all of those components are at 27 °C.
If your room is 22 °C and your computer has been off for an extended time, it's not like some components will be 20 °C, some others will be 24 °C, one at 10 °C and another at 30 °C.
If your PC is sitting in front of an AC duct, ambient is the temperature of the air right outside of the case, not what the temperature is in the middle of the room or at the thermostat. The only time you could take a temperature reading inside of the case and use it as ambient is if the computer had been off for an extended time.
That's why some of the more methodical PC hardware reviewers report temperature differences over ambient when testing cooling solutions.
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