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Mac Mini M4 or M4 Pro for local AI? the answer comes down to one number you set at checkout

Both run local models silently and efficiently, but the gap between them for AI isn't the chip — it's the memory bandwidth and how much you can buy. Here's which Mac Mini to get.

Lena Fischer · Jul 28 · 9 min

Apple Mac mini held in one hand, showing its small size

the $1,999 Mac mini runs a 30B model in near silence on 40 watts. here's the catch nobody puts in the headline

A palm-sized box that sips power and runs mid-size local models is a genuinely great story — until you ask it to process a long prompt. What the M4 Pro Mac mini is brilliant at, and the one thing it's quietly bad at.

Lena Fischer · Jul 22 · 9 min