52 pointsby runako2 hours ago10 comments
  • PinguTS28 minutes ago
    What I am missing in all of those benchmarks, how does the M6 compares to the M5 Pro.

    I don't care how the M6 compares to the M1, even when the M6 2.3x compared to M1 in Excel spreadsheet. That is no measurement even in accounting. The dead time is not the Excel.

    I am to only one?

    • speedping20 minutes ago
      It basically means that every meaningful comparison produced an embarrassing improvement multiplier
    • nicoburns18 minutes ago
      https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-a...

      Says 1.2x for multithreaded and doesn't specify (I presume smaller) for single-threaded. That's compared to M5 not M5 Pro, so M5 Pro is likely significantly faster.

    • zamadatix22 minutes ago
      Benchmarks from the manufacturer are just marketing as well. Wait for independent 3rd party reviews.
  • mandarinclips3 minutes ago
    I really want to buy one for coding/dev work, but it's just too expensive. Not sure if the M4 MacBook will get a price cut anytime soon.
  • jdoe1337halo26 minutes ago
    So happy with my base M4 purchase for $499 when it released. I even snagged a 1TB replacement drive for $199 a year ago. Feels like I got the last train out.
    • Waterluvian10 minutes ago
      I feel that way about my GPU for normal gaming use. Now I’m afraid of it dying on me.
    • paulcole3 minutes ago
      > Feels like I got the last train out.

      Do you just mean in terms of getting something for the cheapest possible price or are you talking about quality going down in some way?

  • Ambroos41 minutes ago
    It's a bit of an emotional goodbye to the super cheap Mac Minis we got to enjoy for a while. I got some for family members, we had some serving as iOS/macOS build servers sitting in a closet at my last job, they were fantastic.

    Not that they're a bad deal now, but at European prices of over €1000 for M6/16GB/256GB it's a psychological barrier that's been broken.

    • glimshe18 minutes ago
      If you adjust for inflation, is it a big change from the super cheap Mac Minis of the past? Probably still somewhat more expensive, but not as much as the nominal difference would imply.
      • petu6 minutes ago
        Mac Mini M4 launched less than 2 years ago at $600 (US, $500 with edu discount; as low as $400 on general discounts). Now same config with M6 is $900.
        • ex1fm3ta2 minutes ago
          same spec, same chip. I tought Apple would at least bump the RAM
    • what_hn15 minutes ago
      [dead]
    • ljlolel34 minutes ago
      be more rational and get over psychological barriers?
  • matt-p7 minutes ago
    2.5Gbe as standard is nice.
  • kuuuzya13 minutes ago
    Wow. Is OpenClaw still alive? Would their users spend so many for the new Mac mini?
  • abricq39 minutes ago
    > Up to 2x faster gaming performance with ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition when compared to Mac mini with M4.

    Interesting that Apple quotes performances when playing Cyberpunk 2077 ! Maybe they will want to care more about gaming ?

    And while i'm at it, I was wondering a few weeks ago if I should try this game on my M3 pro. Anyone has played it on Apple and has feedback ?

    • bodge5000a minute ago
      From what I've seen they do care quite a bit about gaming, but not to the point where they're willing to actually do much about it, so I wouldn't expect a proton style compatibility layer anytime soon unfortunately
    • andrewingram28 minutes ago
      I play quite a few games on my Mac Mini via Crossover, but rarely anything particularly graphically intensive. Though I do see occasional buzz about improvements in the game porting toolkit leading to significant perf improvements when they make their way into Crossover.
    • swozey18 minutes ago
      cp2077 sits permanently at 60fps and looks great on my m1 max 64gb. I used to play it on my 4090, but once I figured out how to do redmods on macos I quit using it and play it on my mac to save power (I'm 100% solar powered and barely generate 600w, 4090 consumes 500+). In apples infinite wisdom they don't support egpus, so my 4090 egpu will never work with my mac, which was a really disappointing thing to discover.
    • mcphage37 minutes ago
      > Interesting that Apple quotes performances when playing Cyberpunk 2077 ! Maybe they will want to care more about gaming ?

      They include game metrics in their marketing often, because they know their customers care about gaming. But no—for whatever reason, it never translates into Apple caring about gaming. I don't get it, but that's the way it has been for a long time.

      • wlesieutre26 minutes ago
        With the “game mode” and “game porting toolkit” in recent history, I think there’s one person at Apple who cares about gaming and every couple of years he escapes from the basement where they keep him locked up and manages to sneak something into the release branch

        They’ve also said when they pull Rosetta for intel compatibility, it will still be available for old games to use, which is a huge improvement from their usual stance of “that game studio that hasn’t existed since 2008 should dust off their code and update it to our new architecture.”

      • efficax18 minutes ago
        they've done a bunch to make macs a better gaming platform, including the very nice game porting toolkit (https://developer.apple.com/games/game-porting-toolkit/) which you can use yourself to run pc games on the mac. All macs since m1 have very nice gpus that can handle most games made today, and the newer ones can run the latest AAA ones with good detail. At this point it's more that game publishers/studios don't care about the mac
  • muro33 minutes ago
    Double the price of the base m4 mac mini in February :(

    (it was late in it's lifecycle and there were frequent sales)

  • KJs6ZxELzQM37O3 minutes ago
    The "up to" and "Yx" compared to three generations ago specs from Apple. Never change.
  • post_break27 minutes ago
    So the price just went up by another $100 am I reading that right?
    • linguae20 minutes ago
      Yup. Yesterday it was $799 for the base Mac Mini M4, a $200 increase from the original MSRP before June’s price hikes.

      I paid $499 for my M4 back in April with the academic discount since I predicted the next generation base model would cost more. Sadly my prediction was correct: $599 to $899 is steep. I understand why; the prices of DIMMs, GPUs, and SSDs have also skyrocketed. But $899 for a base Mac Mini is painful, even if the alternatives on the current market are also painfully expensive.

    • matt-p9 minutes ago
      Faster CPU and Ethernet is certainly worth $100. Sucks though, I agree.
    • jdoe1337halo22 minutes ago
      Era of cheap compute is over I'm afraid
      • orphea2 minutes ago
        No, it's not. We do have to live through this long and harsh winter, though.
      • vlucas10 minutes ago
        Over for now, or at least a little while until production ramps up to our new reality (~5 years minimum is likely).