Apple’s new Mac mini looks the same, but the M6 inside brings a major performance boost
THE SO WHAT
Apple is turning even its smallest desktop into an AI-first box — an M6 tuned for AI tasks and optional M5 Pro/Max/Ultra in Studio means on-prem inference will creep into ordinary creative and dev workflows. If you're planning AI-heavy desktop software, assume far more local compute headroom on macOS and design your architecture to exploit it instead of defaulting everything to cloud APIs.
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