(You can get bigger boosts from switching to a tower PC.) But if you’re deciding between an M2 Mac Mini and a comparable Windows laptop for light computing like web browsing or writing word documents, then the Mac Mini is probably the better choice. It’s about 20% faster in multicore performance and 15% faster in single-core performance. If you already have an M1 Mac Mini, the performance boost isn’t enough to justify upgrading. Old-fashioned tower PCs can offer more power or flexibility at this price point, but not in a package this small-tiny prebuilt Windows PCs like the Intel NUC are a dying breed compared to the bigger and flashier workstations and gaming desktops crowding the market. At that price, most laptops aren’t anywhere near as powerful, and neither are most all-in-one PCs.
The MacBook Pro 13 and MacBook Air are both impressive laptops thanks to their powerful M2 processor, and now that processor’s come to the Mac Mini for just $600. It offers a lot of performance for the moneyĮven without the M2 Pro processing upgrade, users are still delivered faster processing times and up to 8GB of memory. The base Mac Mini is now $100 cheaper, too! For half the price of a MacBook, you get exactly the same amount of power. This flexibility finally puts the Mac Mini on par with the MacBook Pro line, meaning it can find a place as both a humble family PC or as a graphics powerhouse for M2 Pro processor enthusiasts. This generation, Apple has freed the power of the M2 Pro processors from their MacBook cages, and you can upgrade the memory up to 32GB, to boot. It was only upgradeable to 16GB of memory and didn’t come in an M1 Pro version. One of my major complaints about the M1 Mac Mini was its lack of configuration options. More configuration options than last generation Because the M2 doesn’t usually get hot enough to require active cooling, the chassis could be thinner still, but there’s nothing wrong with how thick it actually is.
While there aren’t many of them, the ports the Mac Mini packs are incredibly useful-two USB A ports, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI port, and an Ethernet port. It’s also very easy to use, with all the ports and the power button located on the same side. At under three pounds and about sixty square inches of desk real estate, the Mac Mini basically disappears into the background of your space’s decor.
The Mac Mini’s chassis design has been a hit for years now. The Mac Mini M2 remains lightweight and compact, measuring in at less than three pounds-even with six versatile ports.Īs the old adage goes: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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