If you've been on the lookout for a discount on the latest Mac mini, you're in luck. The M4 Mac mini is back on sale as it has dropped to $549. The deal is for the base model with 16GB of unified memory and 256GB of SSD storage.

Apple retailers are competing for your business by knocking triple digits off the M4 Pro Mac mini, while the standard M4 model has dropped to $549.

You can snag the M4 Mac mini for $549 at Amazon right now, a $50 savings and the lowest price we've seen yet this year. The deal is for the base model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage, but you can save up to 10% on other configurations. That's a steal for one of the best mini PCs on the market, making this an easy deal to recommend.

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We may see the M4 MacBook Air as soon as March. In the Power On newsletter this weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is readying itself for the launch of the upgraded laptop next month.

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Don’t get me wrong, the Mac mini M2 was a great computer that offered a lot of value for the price. Still, shipping the base model with just 8GB of RAM and the lack of front ports held it back significantly. At the same time, it was also quite large compared to the rest of the best mini PCs.

While the standard 512GB base model has jumped up in price slightly, Amazon has the 14-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro in Space Black with the 24GB of RAM and the 1TB SSD down at $2,149 shipped. This is a regularly $2,399 configuration now seeing a solid $250 price drop from the typical list price.

While the newest Apple Mac mini continues to be a powerhouse, a Windows Mini PC has more advantages than you might realize.

The Apple Mac Mini is powerful, tiny, and very good-looking. It's also super affordable, especially if you catch this deal!