Not only have we tested this Mac mini 2018 on its own but benchmarked it against a Mac Pro Late 2013 and also a 12 Core Mac Pro 5,1 to give you a sense of the power under the hood of the Mac mini 2018.įor the review we purchased (Yes we paid for it) a Mac mini with the following configuration:ģ.2GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.6GHz) There's some merit in other reviews and also in anecdotal evidence from forums and social media, but to be frank, the only way to get to the facts is to test it ourselves. We've been asked by many people to take a look at the Mac mini 2018 to see if the claims of it being 'awesome' or that the 'USB2 audio is broken' are true.

However, using the terms entry-level and pro-audio in the same sentence can feel like an oxymoron. What hasn't helped is that in the early days the Mac mini was sold as an entry-level machine, which helped many people with limited funds to get on the Apple Mac train. The Mac mini has an image problem, it's very small, which means a lot of people are going to write it off as a serious machine when it comes to audio production.