Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough

price tag not so mini Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough The M4 Mac mini was one of Apple’s best values ever. This one, not so much.

10 Apple's M6 Mac mini. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Apple's M6 Mac mini. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts.

These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re also usually all upside—you get a year or two’s worth of technological improvements for the same price you would have paid for the older version yesterday. Unfortunately, 2026’s unprecedented memory crunch has upended that standard operating procedure.