

The M1 Mac mini isn’t a perfect machine, but it’s surprisingly close. If you buy the M1 Mac Mini right now, it’s never going to get too slow. Especially if you buy one with 16GB rather than 8GB of RAM. Given that you can expect any Mac to last a good seven years, and given that the M1 processor is ‘next generation,’ you should expect the same at least from any of the new models.

We tested a few native and legacy apps (Apple’s Rosetta 2 tool allows you to continue to run older apps without any major issues), and they ran well – you wouldn’t notice that some of them are not running natively. The Apple Mac mini (M1, 2020) performs incredibly well, with macOS Big Sur running smoothly.
