To be fair, both of those other computers have significantly more memory bandwidth than the Mac mini, and both have better GPU performance. If maxing out as many GPU cores as possible is important to you, you’re probably better off with an M4 Max, which means either a MacBook Pro or waiting for an updated Mac Studio.

If you want the most processing muscle, you really want an M4 Max chip, but if a $3,499 laptop is out of your budget, the M4 Pro models have what it takes to conquer your processing demands. The 16-inch M3 Pro MacBook Pro was a really good laptop.

The company says the new M4 line is up to 9.8x faster than the Intel models and up to 3.5x faster than the M1 Pro and M1 Max. For its own purposes, Apple used an M4 chip with 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 32GB of RAM. The test involved using Adobe Premier ...