M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple's best Mac minis

Almost twice as fast as M2 Pro while using half as much energy. How is Apple able to pull this off as a consumer hardware company. What is Intel et. al. doing all these years?

Make 1TB of SSD not double the price and I’ll get one

It&#x27;s wild that with the educational discount ($499!) the base model is within striking distance of a Raspberry Pi once you add in the power supply, case, heat sink, and an SSD.<p>I don&#x27;t think there is anything else out there that has this combination of size, performance, price, and energy efficiency.

Would love to buy one of these to run as a server, but I really don’t need it. :)<p>Besides that, my 16in MacBook Pro with M2 Max and 32gb RAM still does everything I need. I’m still so impressed with the raw performance and long battery life that Apple Silicon has brought to the laptop space.

Isn&#x27;t every new Mac mini Apple&#x27;s best Mac mini? I don&#x27;t know of any that were regressions.

Still doesn&#x27;t justify a model with double the base memory and storage costing over twice as much.

What a great little machine.<p>Would be great if this could finally put the nail into Windows. It&#x27;s about time.

i&#x27;m more interested in the mini pc&#x27;s running AMD iGPU&#x27;s like those found in the steam deck<p>to run triple AAA games at 40-60fps on a cold and quiet device is amazing and feels like a real progression. likewise with proton<p>something like beelink ser8 you can open it and add RAM and extra SSD for cheap too.<p>these mac mini are restricted by the OS. macOS is a boring system to me.<p>what can you do with this that you can&#x27;t with the previous models. generate genmojis faster or render 4k videos faster, useful but boring