M6 Mac mini review: fast chip, but base SSD is too small

A review of the base M6 Mac mini, Apple's first 2nm desktop chip, praises performance but criticizes the $899 model's limited storage and 16GB of memory for Apple Intelligence and apps.

• M6 is Apple's first 2nm desktop chip with 12 CPU and 12 GPU cores
• Geekbench 7 shows 23% single-core and 47% multi-core gains over M4
• Neural Engine doubled to 32 cores, AI compute up to 4x faster than M4
• The $899 base model ships with only 16GB of memory and a small SSD