Everybody Wants to Make Their Own Mac mini Now, and It’s Obvious Why
ASUS unveiled the Ascent QN10 with Snapdragon X2 Elite and an 80 TOPS NPU for $1350–1700, Lenovo is preparing the ThinkCentre X Ultra with Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 and up to 128 GB of memory for $3700, and Acer announced the SFF RTX Spark with Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU. Apple will release the M6 Mac mini on September 22 from $900 with 5x AI acceleration.
- ASUS Ascent QN10: Snapdragon X2 Elite, 80 TOPS NPU, from $1350 for 16 GB
- Lenovo ThinkCentre X Ultra: Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, up to 128 GB, from $3700 in November
- Acer SFF RTX Spark: 20-core Grace CPU and 6144-core Blackwell GPU, late 2026 to early 2027
- M6 Mac mini from $900, but Thunderbolt 5 and clustering only in M5 Pro version from $1700
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