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This video takes an exclusive look at Apple’s rare Developer Transition Kit (DTK), a Mac mini prototype with the A12Z chip, originally designed to help developers transition from Intel to Apple Silicon. Intended for destruction, this DTK survived and offers a unique glimpse into Apple’s early macOS Big Sur and M1 transition strategy. We tear down the DTK, benchmark its performance, and test its gaming capabilities. Learn how this pre-release Apple Silicon Mac mini compares to the final M1 Mac, showcasing hardware like Rosetta 2, ARM architecture, and more.

0:00 I got my hands on a DTK!
0:23 2020 was wild and Big Sur was... BIG!
1:22 Apple Silicon's transition "bridges"
3:11 Weird DTK oddities!
6:15 Tearing down Apple's DTK
9:30 Looking at the SoC and other components
10:35 Apple's FAILED attempt at DESTRUCTION!
12:22 No Thunderbolt!
12:53 The CMOS batteries are WILD
14:11 More SMC shenanigans and boot sequence
15:57 A12Z was architecturally flawed for macOS
16:57 Synthetic benchmarking vs M1/M3
19:46 How does it handle video editing?
21:39 Can it game?!
24:13 This thing sucked and Apple flubbed it
25:15 The DTK died so M1 could live!

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