It’s not just me that’s blown away by the M4 Mac Mini. I’m watching reviewers show benchmarks that has even the base model blow away 3 year old Mac Studio’s that cost $2k-3k! I’m aware my dinosaur iMac is outperformed by just about anything, but until this M4 Mini Apple didn’t make anything at that low a price (student discounts and specials can get it down close to $500!). My budget’s a lot lower than back in the day..!

I’ve also seen videos showing the base model running Windows and Linux and getting impressive benchmarks for productivity apps. Sure, if you got a $3000 TOTL video card in your PC, gaming performance is going to be a LOT better, but unless you’re a pro e-gamer the Mac Mini will run most Windows games at a playable framerate and resolution.

It's how much this thing has leapfrogged the previous generation at the absolute rock bottom price that’s getting my GAS to flare up! As the issue of the onboard storage is a non issue (only programs really need to reside on the internal drive, all data is quite content to sit on an external SSD) it seems niggly to not get it for something that doesn’t matter!

It’s like Porsche just released a base model for $20k that goes faster than their last $120,000 model, and people are losing their minds because a replacement MOMO wheel (that nobody really needs) is $10k! Big deal… buy the new base Porsche and use the stock wheel and go out and blow the competition away!