I had high expectations for this year’s Apple Mac mini. Compared to last year’s offering, the Mac Mini with M4 is nearly flawless. Apple reduced the size of the small form factor system by almost half, making it lighter than ever before. But the real ...

To be fair, both of those other computers have significantly more memory bandwidth than the Mac mini, and both have better GPU performance. If maxing out as many GPU cores as possible is important to you, you’re probably better off with an M4 Max, which means either a MacBook Pro or waiting for an updated Mac Studio.

Apple’s smaller Mac mini is mightier than ever, thanks to the M4 and M4 Pro chips, and it’s a better deal with 16GB of RAM to start.