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Mac mini (M1, 2020) price and variants
Perhaps the biggest surprise about the new M1-based Mac mini is that it starts at $100 less than the previous Intel-based version. In India, the base variant with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD costs Rs. 64,900 while doubling the storage to 512GB will raise the price to Rs. 84,900. It's important to note that both RAM and storage are neither expandable nor replaceable so you have to consider how your usage will evolve over time.

Apple now offers customisation options in India through its online store and at authorised distributors. If you want your new Mac mini with 16GB of RAM, you'll wind up paying Rs. 20,000 more. You can also choose a 1TB SSD for Rs. 40,000 over the base price, or a 2TB one for Rs. 80,000 more. These prices are frankly ludicrous, considering that you can buy a standard 1TB NVMe SSD for less than Rs. 10,000 today, but your only alternatives are external drives and cloud storage.

Despite Apple's iron grip over its image, the company doesn't sell matching monitors (other than the ultra-high-end 32-inch 6K Pro Display XDR) so you'll need to buy your own. You could choose to buy Apple's pricey Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2 and/or Magic Trackpad 2, but oddly enough these aren't offered as add-ons when configuring your Mac mini online.

Previous-gen Intel-based options remain available, but only as high-end configurations starting at Rs. 1,04,900 with a 3GHz 8th Gen Intel Core i5 CPU. This can be configured with up to a Core i7 CPU, 64GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, plus optional 10Gbit Ethernet. This is good news for people who use Mac minis as servers or in production environments

Mac mini (M1, 2020) design
It's not immediately obvious how to tell the new M1-based Mac mini apart from its predecessors. The most obvious clue is a return to silver aluminium after one generation of Space Grey bodies. If you look at the rear, you'll also find only two Thunderbolt Type-C ports instead of the usual four.

The body is milled from a single block of metal. It's just under 20cm square and 3.6cm tall, weighing 1.2kg. It can easily be tucked away in a corner, though it looks good enough and is unobtrusive enough that most people will want it on their tables. A VESA mount would have allowed this box to be hooked onto the back of most desktop monitors, but you'll have to buy a third-party bracket if you want to do that.
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