Apple’s M4 Mac mini is already $10...

We’re now simply three weeks out from the primary Black Friday 2025 purchasing occasion, which, this 12 months, occurs to land on November 28. As ever, loads of retailers and commerce storefronts try to get forward of the curve with promotions and reductions main as much as the occasion itself, and Amazon is definitely no exception.

For a restricted time solely, Apple’s base M4 Mac mini pc is listed on Amazon within the US for a beginning worth of $500 — that is a full $100 off its ordinary MSRP, or roughly seventeen p.c off. This explicit mannequin ships with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of inner storage, however the step-up 16GB + 512GB and 24GB + 512GB configurations are additionally on sale for $110 off every.

For those who’re trying to avoid wasting money on a desktop pc with a little bit additional horsepower beneath the hood, the $1,400 M4 Professional-equipped Mac mini with 24GB of RAM and 512GB of storage is listed at a short lived promotional worth of $1,270, which equates to 9 p.c off.

The M4 Mac mini is small however mighty

I can not get sufficient of Apple’s lovely, pint-sized pc

Apple first launched its M4 Mac mini within the fall of 2024, making this latest-generation mannequin a couple of 12 months previous on the time of writing. The M4 Mac mini supersedes 2023’s M2 Mac mini, which itself was a milestone launch that featured a from-the-ground-up redesign with in-house Apple Silicon in thoughts.

In comparison with older Intel-powered Mac mini fashions of the previous, these newer M sequence fashions function a much more compact design, a superior performance-per-watt ratio by advantage of adopting the ARM instruction set, assist for Apple Intelligence AI options inside macOS, and a streamlined number of I/O ports that prioritizes high quality over amount.

With Apple’s upgraded M5 chipset now out in the wild, I would not be shocked to see a refreshed Mac mini be launched someday within the subsequent handful of months. In fact, such a product could be a small spec-bump replace over its predecessor, and I would not anticipate to see any main redesign of the mini kind issue anytime within the short-to-medium-term future.