Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough

Apple’s new M6 Mac mini delivers meaningful performance and connectivity improvements, but a $300 base-price increase erodes the value proposition that made the previous model an attractive enterprise desktop standard. For CIOs, the key implication is that Apple hardware refreshes can no longer be assumed to be “same price, better spec,” so endpoint strategies should account for higher acquisition costs, tighter memory constraints, and more selective deployment based on workload intensity and peripheral needs.