As rumored, the Mini has been shrunken down considerably — and it was already a relatively small desktop machine to begin with. Now it’s downright tiny, measuring five inches in both length and width.

The Mac mini is the most affordable option for users who want a Mac computer. Since the debut of Apple's silicon chipset, and the subsequent release of the M1 Mac mini in late 2020, the Mac mini has also been an incredibly affordable option to those looking for a powerful computer.

With this update, Apple skips over its M3 processor and jumps from the M2 in the previous Mac Mini to the M4. And as we saw with the M4 iMac, the new Mac Mini delivers a minimum of 16GB of RAM to help the computer handle Apple Intelligence and other AI tasks.