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2026-09-12
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M6 Mac mini vs M5 Pro Mac mini for Local AI: Is the $899 Mini a Dead End?
Apple's $899 M6 Mac mini caps at 32GB of memory and 153 to 170 GB/s of bandwidth with no Thunderbolt 5, making it a poor local-LLM machine compared with the $1,699 M5 Pro Mac mini, which offers 307 GB…