{"id":264345,"date":"2026-06-04T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/m4-pro-mac-mini-and-making-it-work-for-me\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:35:11","slug":"m4-pro-mac-mini-and-making-it-work-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/m4-pro-mac-mini-and-making-it-work-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"M4 Pro Mac mini – and making it work for me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

M4 Pro Mac mini – and making it work for me!<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/talkingtechandaudio.com\/blog\/m4-pro-mac-mini-hard-at-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-04 10:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s still the Mac I do most of my work on\u2026but now with a little bit of help<\/h2>\n

\"M4<\/p>\n

I got my M4 Pro Mac mini within a few days of its release. It\u2019s still the Mac I do the majority of my work on.<\/p>\n

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\u2019m still delighted with it overall.<\/p>\n

It sits neatly in the corner of my desk and quietly and efficiently goes about its business.<\/p>\n

When I bought it, I knew it was going to be a worker \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s also connected directly to a NAS, which I\u2019ll tell you about later.<\/p>\n

I spec\u2019d my M4 Pro Mac mini well! As I\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019d end up using it \u2013 and so it\u2019s proven to be.<\/p>\n

I ended up spending over \u00a32000 on the mini \u2013 but it has earned me that back and then some. It was money well spent.<\/p>\n

M4 Pro Mac mini \u2013 good but\u2026<\/h3>\n

You know my feelings on clickbait and attention-grabbing headlines, so let me just say this right away \u2013 I have zero regrets about buying the Mac mini.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, if I were spending the money again, I\u2019d probably get a Mac Studio, but even so, the mighty mini has never grumbled, stumbled or let me down.<\/p>\n

If you were wondering, yes, I\u2019m one of the leave it on gang!<\/p>\n

I have virtually never turned the Mac mini off. It runs 24\/7 \u2013 that is, until recently. During the height of our recent heatwave, it was hot \u2013 seriously hot. OK, my studio is…<\/p>\n

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