Our Overall Score:
8.8/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our Mac Mini review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if Mac Mini is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Desktop PCs category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £719
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like Mac Mini. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Apple or alternative products in the Desktop PCs category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of Mac Mini
Mac Mini scores 8.5/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Desktop PCs. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of Mac Mini, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for Mac Mini and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Desktop PCs, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Desktop PCs? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
Mac Mini scores 9.3/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Desktop PCs category was £5999.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £279.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of Mac Mini down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Desktop PCs category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Desktop PCs category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for Mac Mini.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Desktop PCs category. This was £1202.06 from the 136 products we found in that category. So Mac Mini actually comes in below average at £719.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £5999.00 and the least expensive, which was £279.00. In total we found that of the 136, 88 were more expensive and 46 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as Mac Mini.
Prices of products from Apple
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Apple. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Apple, which was £325.59 of the 139 products we found. So Mac Mini price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Apple was £7.49 with the most expensive coming in at £4899.00.
Prices of products from Apple and in the Desktop PCs category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Apple that sit specifically within the Desktop PCs category.
For this we found that the average price was £1730.00, making Mac Mini at £719 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £4899.00 with the lowest priced item being £719.00. In total there were 6 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of Mac Mini
Mac Mini scores 8.7/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good Mac Mini is.
Overall score
Mac Mini scores 8.8/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Apple so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for Mac Mini by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: Mac Mini
- Brand: Apple
- Model Number: 10187935
- macOS MojaveIntel Core i3 ProcessorRAM: 8 GB / Storage: 128 GB SSD
- EAN: 190198801555
- Description: Top features: – Powerful specs with a quad-core processor and super-fast SSD – Versatile connectivity options with Thunderbolt, HDMI and USB – macOS Mojave includes new features to help you focus – Secure design with Apple’s T2 security chip Powerful specs The Apple Mac Mini is more than just a desktop – it’s designed with a whole load of power for the most intense design projects. The exterior is created from 100% recycled aluminium, so it looks great, and has impressive green credentials too.With the latest generation quad-core processor, super-fast SSD storage and high-performance DDR4 RAM, this is the sort of desktop that can run almost anything. You’ll be able to render massive files in no time, handle huge creative projects in Photoshop, then edit in Final Cut Pro X without feeling like you’re being slowed down.Versatile connectivity optionsDesktops need connectivity. Which is why the Mac Mini has versatile, lightning fast Thunderbolt 3 ports, as well as standard USB and HDMI ports. You’ll be able to connect monitors however you want, plug in all your essentials and still have room for more.And when it comes to getting online, you’ve got a fast Gigabit Ethernet port, so folders worth of images will download in moment.macOS MojaveAutomatically organise files, stay focused with Dark Mode and take screenshots with less effort – macOS Mojave is designed to help you work. Thanks to Quick Look, you can even work on a file without needing to open it, so you can crop an image, or trim video in seconds.Secure designThanks to the Apple T2 security chip, the Mac Mini is incredibly secure and will keep all your data private.Want more power? You can use multiple Mac Minis together – you’ll have the power to create new apps, design games, or render vast video files.___________________________________________________________________________ Intel, the Intel logo, Celeron, Intel Atom, Intel Core, Intel. Experience What’s Inside, Intel Inside, the Intel Inside logo, Intel Optane, Intel Unite, Iris, Pentium, Thunderbolt, the Thunderbolt logo, and Ultrabook are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
- Product ID: 22779766431
