Dan Moren writing about the new Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro, writing at Six Colors:

… it’s basically a smaller version of the Mac Studio, which was itself a taller version of the Mac mini. Time, as they say, is a flat squircle.

Dan Moren cracks me up.1

I’m certainly tempted by the new Mac mini. I have a great desktop setup — two displays, continuity camera, great speakers — but the brains are a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) in clamshell. It’s a great machine but you can always use faster when doing SwiftUI development.

I’d love a machine that’s always ready for me at the desk but my hangup is: do I really need two Macs? I feel like if I get the mini I need to trade in my laptop. There are times I want a Mac to-go though and Apple silicon MacBooks have almost zero compromises.

The correct decision is to not buy anything. We shall see.


  1. I was delighted that my Mastodon post made it into episode #90 of A Complicated Profession (at the 59 minutes mark). ↩︎