The awesome Mac mini M4 just dropped to $479 at Best Buy – that’s a new record low

We’re just a few days out from Black Friday now, and the deals are heating up; in fact, the one product I’d been keeping a close eye out for has gone on sale, and even better, it’s the cheapest it’s ever been.

That’s right: my beloved Apple Mac mini (M4) is on sale at Best Buy for $479 (was ~~$599~~), marking the lowest price Apple’s signature tiny computer has ever seen. There’s a good reason it occupies a prime slot in our ranking of the best desktop PCs (and the best mini PCs too); this dinky device is an absolute powerhouse with an already very reasonable price tag, making this discount even more appealing.

UK shoppers can enjoy a decent price cut on the M4 Mac mini too, with it reduced to £499 (was ~~£599~~) at Amazon. It’s not quite as significant a deal, but it’s still the cheapest it’s ever been in the UK according to our price-tracking tools!

Apple. The feeling is mutual, too; they wouldn’t even let me write our M4 Mac mini review when it debuted this time last year.

But even a seasoned hater like me can’t think of a single criticism to sling at the latest Mac mini. It thoroughly deserves the 5-star rating awarded by my (very lovely) boss Matt Hanson, delivering a new, even more compact design along with truly stellar performance courtesy of the powerful M4 chip. It’s powerful, it’s tiny, and it’s also fully passively-cooled, which makes it completely silent in operation – no fan whine here.