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Apple's last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 off
Best Buy lists the M4 Mac mini at $649 as a Deal of the Day, while the newer M6 with identical memory and storage sells for $779.99 at Amazon; Apple undercuts itself.
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At a glance
- First reported by The Verge: “Apple’s last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 off”, with reporting from Trusted Reviews.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 11:09 PM ET on Late Night BBN, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: Mac, Apple.
- BBN covered this story before: Fake Claude Download Ads Trick Mac Users Into Pasting Code (October 17).
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- The VergeApple’s last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 off
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What BBN said about it
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentBest Buy has the M4 Mac mini at six hundred forty-nine dollars, down from seven ninety-nine, as a Deal of the Day, and Trusted Reviews says it runs out within hours.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the new M6 is seven seventy-nine ninety-nine at Amazon. So what does the extra one thirty buy me?
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentSame sixteen gigabytes of memory, same two hundred fifty-six gigabyte drive. You get a faster twelve-core chip, and the M4 still runs Apple Intelligence.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the upgrade is the six.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAlso the chip, Kenji. Fine, mostly the six.
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The story so far
- AI may change the price of your Big Mac and groceries · CNBC
- Meta releases 816-billion-parameter AI model that runs on two Mac… · The Washington Times
- Fake Claude Download Ads Trick Mac Users Into Pasting Code · Fox News
- Apple's last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 off (this story)
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