So a little over a year ago I scooped an M2 Mac Mini up when BestBuy slipped up and offered the 512 GB model at the base price.
End of the week they’ll have the new M4 model and it’s amazing - even smaller size, way more powerful and the base model has 16 GB instead of 8, Base hard drive is still 256. Now one reason I scooped the one I did was because they’d reverted to a single 256 chip instead of two 128s and made that base model slower than the M1 mini. Don’t know on the M4 but the read/write speeds on the spec sheets are constant for all the M4 drives. More lanes? Don’t know, no teardowns posted yet.
$799 for the M4 Mini and it looks like it literally blows away anything else out there.
I’ve suggested MacMinis as a bargain replacement for dead PCs since 2006 but only 1 person ever listened. All the rest had to get a PC laptop and send their monitor,keyboard and mouse to the closet or recycle bin.