The 2024 Mac mini is a 12.7 cm-square desktop with the M4 chip for everyday home and office use or the M4 Pro for developers and creative work that needs more cores, memory and Thunderbolt 5.
Reviewers praise the much smaller redesign, front-facing ports, fast M4 chips, quiet everyday running and 16GB of memory as standard, and Expert Reviews thinks it excellent value. Notebookcheck and Tom's Guide dislike the power button underneath, the 256GB base SSD and expensive memory and storage upgrades, and Notebookcheck found it louder than its predecessor under heavy load.
M4: 10-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores; M4 Pro: 12-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, or 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores
GPU
M4: 10-core GPU; M4 Pro: 16-core or 20-core GPU; hardware-accelerated ray tracing
AI engine
16-core Neural Engine
Memory bandwidth
M4: 120GB/s; M4 Pro: 273GB/s
Storage type
SSD
Media engine
Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW; video decode engine; video encode engine; ProRes encode and decode engine; AV1 decode
2 × USB-C with USB 3 (up to 10Gb/s); 3.5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones
Back ports
M4: 3 × Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) with Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s) and DisplayPort; M4 Pro: 3 × Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) with Thunderbolt 5 (up to 120Gb/s), USB 4 and DisplayPort; HDMI with multichannel audio output; Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45), configurable to 10Gb Ethernet
External displays
M4: up to three (two at up to 6K 60Hz over Thunderbolt, plus one at up to 5K 60Hz over Thunderbolt or 4K 60Hz over HDMI), or two (one at up to 5K 60Hz plus one at up to 8K 60Hz or 4K 240Hz); M4 Pro: up to three at up to 6K 60Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI, or two (one at up to 6K 60Hz plus one at up to 8K 60Hz or 4K 240Hz)
Speakers
Built-in speaker
Microphones
None built in
Design and power
Type
Compact
Weight
0.67 kg
Width × depth × height
127 × 127 × 50 mm
Operating system
macOS
Power supply
Built-in; 100–240V AC; 155W maximum continuous power
Power use
M4 with 16GB and 256GB: 4W idle, 65W maximum; M4 Pro with 64GB and 8TB: 5W idle, 140W maximum
Noise
5 dBA sound pressure at idle (operator position)
Colours
Silver
In the box
Mac mini, power lead (1.8 m)
Configurations
Processor
Memory
Storage
Apple M4
16 GB
256 GB
Apple M4
32 GB
2 TB
Apple M4 Pro, 12-core CPU, 16-core GPU
24 GB
512 GB
Apple M4 Pro
64 GB
8 TB
Pros and cons
Pros
+12.7 × 12.7 × 5 cm case with two USB-C ports and a headphone jack on the front
+M4 Pro version takes up to 64GB of memory and 8TB of storage, with three Thunderbolt 5 ports
+Drives up to three displays, and 10Gb Ethernet is an option
Cons
−The M4 version tops out at 32GB of memory and 2TB of storage
−Gigabit Ethernet as standard, and Wi-Fi 6E rather than Wi-Fi 7
