Apple Mac mini 评测：新款 M6 令人印象深刻，但涨价令人难以接受

The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re also usually all upside—you get a year or two’s worth of technological improvements for the same price you would have paid for the older version yesterday. 新款 Mac mini 是苹果做过无数次的那种 Mac 升级。它沿用了之前的设计，但更换了内部核心。这种求稳的更新虽然谈不上令人兴奋，但通常都是利大于弊——你只需支付和昨天购买旧款相同的价格，就能获得一两年的技术进步。

Unfortunately, 2026’s unprecedented memory crunch has upended that standard operating procedure. The new Mac mini starts at $899 for a version with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, a $300 increase for the same memory and storage specs you could get in the $599 M4 Mac mini in 2024. The M4 Mac mini was a great general-purpose desktop computer and one of the best values Apple had ever offered in a desktop Mac. The M6 Mac mini is only one of those things. I’ll let you guess which. 遗憾的是，2026 年史无前例的内存紧缺打破了这一惯例。新款 Mac mini 起售价为 899 美元（16GB 内存 + 256GB 存储），相比 2024 年售价 599 美元的 M4 Mac mini，在同样的内存和存储规格下，价格上涨了 300 美元。M4 Mac mini 是一款出色的通用台式机，也是苹果有史以来提供的性价比最高的台式 Mac 之一。而 M6 Mac mini 只做到了其中一点。至于哪一点，我就不言自明了。

Note that this review is specifically for the M6 version of the Mac mini. We didn’t get an M5 Pro Mac mini to review, but we’ll talk more about how its pricing and performance fits in for our Mac Studio review. 请注意，本篇评测专门针对 M6 版本的 Mac mini。我们没有拿到 M5 Pro Mac mini 进行评测，但我们会在 Mac Studio 的评测中进一步讨论其定价和性能表现。

Design (设计)

The M4 Mac minis gave the computers their first full redesigns in nearly 15 years, so it’s not too surprising that the new Mac minis don’t change anything. Compared to the older Intel and M1/M2-era versions, they’re slightly taller (2 inches, up from 1.4), but they have a smaller 5×5-inch footprint (down from 7.7 inches squared). The system is actively cooled, with a fan vent on the bottom to make sure that whatever chip is inside can run at high sustained clock speeds (passively cooled Apple Silicon Macs like the MacBook Air have always been a bit slower than actively cooled Macs with the same chip). M4 Mac mini 是近 15 年来该系列首次全面重新设计，因此新款 Mac mini 没有做出任何改变并不令人意外。与老款 Intel 和 M1/M2 时代版本相比，它们稍微高了一些（从 1.4 英寸增加到 2 英寸），但占地面积更小，为 5×5 英寸（之前为 7.7 英寸见方）。该系统采用主动散热，底部设有风扇通风口，以确保内部芯片能以高持续时钟频率运行（像 MacBook Air 这种被动散热的 Apple Silicon Mac，在搭载相同芯片的情况下，速度总是比主动散热的 Mac 稍慢）。

All Mac minis have two 10 Gbps USB-C ports and a headphone jack on the front, and a 2.5 Gbps (default) or 10 Gbps (optional) Ethernet port and HDMI port on the back. Both also have three Thunderbolt ports on the back, but these are Thunderbolt 4 on the M6 Mac mini and Thunderbolt 5 on the M5 Pro version. That means the M6 mini’s ports top out at 40 Gbps, while the M5 Pro mini supports up to 120 Gbps speeds. 所有 Mac mini 的正面均配有两个 10 Gbps USB-C 端口和一个耳机插孔，背面则配有一个 2.5 Gbps（默认）或 10 Gbps（可选）以太网端口和一个 HDMI 端口。两者背面都有三个雷电（Thunderbolt）端口，但 M6 Mac mini 为雷电 4，而 M5 Pro 版本为雷电 5。这意味着 M6 mini 的端口速度上限为 40 Gbps，而 M5 Pro mini 支持高达 120 Gbps 的速度。

Realistically, there aren’t a ton of things on a Mac that can use all that bandwidth, especially since Apple doesn’t support external GPUs. But you do need a Thunderbolt 5 Mac to daisy-chain multiple computers together to form a compute cluster, so if that’s something you’re interested in, keep it in mind when you buy—maybe you’re buying multiple desktops, or maybe you already have an M5 Pro or M5 Max MacBook Pro you’d like to test the feature with. 实际上，Mac 上并没有太多东西能用满这些带宽，尤其是考虑到苹果不支持外接 GPU。但如果你想通过雷电 5 将多台电脑串联起来组成计算集群，那么在购买时就需要考虑这一点——也许你正打算购买多台台式机，或者你已经拥有一台 M5 Pro 或 M5 Max MacBook Pro，并想测试该功能。

The only real gripe with this design continues to be its bottom-rear-mounted power button; apparently, complaints about this are being sent to the same trash can Apple has always used for complaints about the Magic Mouse’s bottom-mounted charging port. It doesn’t come up often in everyday use if you just let your Mac go to sleep rather than shutting it down. But the positioning problem does really call attention to itself when you pair a TouchID-equipped external keyboard with the mini, since it requires a quick double-tap of the Mac’s power button before the sensor will work. 该设计唯一真正的槽点依然是位于底部后方的电源按钮；显然，关于此的抱怨都被扔进了苹果处理“妙控鼠标底部充电口”投诉的同一个垃圾桶里。如果你只是让 Mac 进入睡眠状态而不是关机，日常使用中很少会遇到这个问题。但当你为 mini 配备带 TouchID 的外接键盘时，这个位置问题就变得非常明显了，因为在传感器工作之前，需要快速双击 Mac 的电源按钮。

Meet the M6 (认识 M6)

Apple’s first M6-series chip is making its debut in the humble Mac mini, and the chip looks like the biggest upgrade Apple’s lower-end chip has gotten since the M4 generation added extra efficiency cores. The headliner is the presence of two of Apple’s so-called “Super” cores, Apple’s nomenclature for P-cores that are even faster than its typical P-cores. Those are added on top of four P-cores and six E-cores for a total of 12 CPU cores. 苹果首款 M6 系列芯片在低调的 Mac mini 上首次亮相。这款芯片看起来是自 M4 世代增加能效核心以来，苹果入门级芯片获得的最大升级。最引人注目的是两颗所谓的“超级（Super）”核心，这是苹果对那些比普通性能核心（P-core）更快的核心的命名。它们与四颗 P 核心和六颗能效核心（E-core）共同组成了总计 12 颗 CPU 核心。

Apple has mixed super cores with both other kinds of cores before, but this is its first chip to include all three kinds at once. To get around the awkwardness this might create at the CPU scheduler level, the built-in powermetrics tool suggests that Apple is still treating the M6 like a chip with just two types of cores. The six E-cores are all gathered together in one cluster, and the two Super cores and the four P-cores are all lumped together into a second six-core cluster called the “PS cluster.” 苹果此前曾将超级核心与其他两种核心混合使用，但这是其首款同时包含这三种核心的芯片。为了解决这可能在 CPU 调度层面带来的尴尬，内置的 powermetrics 工具显示，苹果仍然将 M6 视为仅有两种核心类型的芯片。六颗 E 核心被聚集在一个集群中，而两颗超级核心和四颗 P 核心则被合并到第二个六核集群中，称为“PS 集群”。