M4 Pro Mac mini – and making it work for me!

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Publish Date: 2026-06-04 10:14:00

It’s still the Mac I do most of my work on…but now with a little bit of help

I got my M4 Pro Mac mini within a few days of its release. It’s still the Mac I do the majority of my work on.

I write these stories on it, run my business from it, and do the majority of my editing on it. And after eighteen months of daily use, I’m still delighted with it overall.

It sits neatly in the corner of my desk and quietly and efficiently goes about its business.

When I bought it, I knew it was going to be a worker – in other words, not a Mac that I was buying to review. This was going to be my studio-slogger, and it has not let me down.

I have it paired to a 1st Gen Studio Display and another secondary display. Other than that, I have a couple of audio interfaces connected, a hub with loads of I/O, an SD card reader and, of course, some external storage. It’s also connected directly to a NAS, which I’ll tell you about later.

I spec’d my M4 Pro Mac mini well! As I’ve already mentioned, I went with the Pro chip, 48GB of memory, 1TB of storage and beefed it up with a 14-core CPU/20-core GPU chip.

A late addition to the tick-box list was to get the 10Gb Ethernet port built into it. I had an inkling that at some point down the line, I’d end up using it – and so it’s proven to be.

I ended up spending over £2000 on the mini – but it has earned me that back and then some. It was money well spent.

M4 Pro Mac mini – good but…

You know my feelings on clickbait and attention-grabbing headlines, so let me just say this right away – I have zero regrets about buying the Mac mini.

Admittedly, if I were spending the money again, I’d probably get a Mac Studio, but even so, the mighty mini has never grumbled, stumbled or let me down.

If you were wondering, yes, I’m one of the leave it on gang!

I have virtually never turned the Mac mini off. It runs 24/7 – that is, until recently. During the height of our recent heatwave, it was hot – seriously hot. OK, my studio is…

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