Like its M1 stablemates, the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, the new Mac Mini sticks with a familiar design. You'll need to supply a display, keyboard and mouse, as these are not included in the price. The M1-based Mac Mini measures a compact 197mm (7.7in.) square by 36mm (1.4in.) high and starts at £699 (inc.
And, with a price cut of around £100/$100 for this new model, the new Mac Mini could well find an audience with business users who need a compact and affordable machine for working from home. Having outlived its usefulness as a 'low-cost Mac' in the Steve Jobs era, Apple has made tentative attempts in recent years to reposition the Mac Mini as a kind of entry-level server and, more recently, as a compact workstation for creative users.īut, just as Apple's home-grown M1 system-on-chip (SoC) has given the ultraportable MacBook Air a shot in the arm, so the new Apple Silicon processor is allowing the Mac Mini to return to its roots as an affordable desktop Mac.
Over the years, it has sometimes seemed that Apple didn't really know what to do with the Mac Mini.
