Apple has informed some customers who recently ordered a Mac mini with an M4 chip that has yet to ship that it will be upgrading their order to an equivalent version of the new Mac mini with an M6 chip at no additional cost.

Apple’s new $900 Mac mini (which is $100 more than the last version after recent price hikes) may not seem like a major upgrade, at least judging by a cursory glance. It’s mai

M6 is Apple’s newest chip and the first built on an innovative 2nm process. That means it packs larger than usual improvements. For example, M6 has up to 2x faster storage than M4. M6 features a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, up from 10 cores each in M4.

Apple's newly announced M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini models still support up to three external displays, but there's now support for higher refresh rates, according to Apple's published technical specifications.

If the MacBook Neo's tech is good enough for a laptop, it's good enough for a cheaper desktop — and we've never needed one more.

Mac mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra launched August 25, 2026, as Apple debuted its first 2nm desktop chip and a quad-die processor with 512GB of unified memory. The Mac mini starts at $899 -- $300 more than its M4 launch price -- while the M5 Ultra Mac Studio starts at $5,

Apple is getting ready to refresh the Mac mini for the first time in nearly two years, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, citing unnamed people familiar with the plans. The new desktop could show up as soon as the coming days,