The price for this Mac mini, as tested, is $2,200 without the upgrade to 10-Gigabit Ethernet - that upgrade costs $100 more and I suspect most Mac mini users will not opt for it. This review focuses on the M2 Pro Mac mini, with 32GB of RAM, a 12-Core CPU, a 19-Core GPU, and 1TB of storage. Several new Mac mini models are now available, with the lowest-priced model at just $600. I have yet to hear the fans whir up at any time - even during extended benchmark tests.The Mac mini even has some hardware upgrades that the Mac Studio is missing: HDMI has been updated to 2.1 from the Studio’s 2.0, features WiFi 6E instead of WiFi 6, and has been updated from the Studio’s Bluetooth 5.0 to Bluetooth 5.3. The M2 Pro Mac Mini flew through editing 40-megapixel RAW files from the Fujifilm X-T5, and while I’m no videographer myself, it didn’t show any strain when working with high-bitrate 4K test footage in our tests. But it’s a big step up from what the standard M2 Mini, MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro are capable of. As our Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark shows, that graphics horsepower isn’t quite on the level of Apple’s Max chips since they have even more GPU cores to spare. And the added GPU cores over the standard M2 made a noticeable difference when exporting 4K footage or gaming. In benchmarks, its Cinebench single-core and multicore CPU scores bested last year’s M1 Max MacBook Pro. So far, it’s been an absolute screamer worthy of the “Mac Studio junior” moniker - and then some. Instead, over the last several days, I’ve been using the M2 Pro model with 12 CPU cores and 19 GPU cores. But I haven’t been testing the regular M2 Mini.
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