Apple’s M4 Mac Mini Drops to $649 in Limited-Time Best Buy Deal

What changed

Best Buy is selling Apple’s base M4 Mac Mini for $649 through the rest of October 19, 2026. The model includes 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, down $150 from its usual $799 price.

Why it matters

At $799, the M4 Mac Mini is awkwardly positioned beside the newer M6 model, which Amazon has listed at $779.99, reduced from $899. At $649, the older machine becomes the clearer value proposition for buyers who need a compact Mac and do not want to pay nearly the newer model’s price.

That does not make the M4 automatically the better machine. The available information does not detail the performance gap between the M4 and M6. But the discount changes the decision from “why buy last generation at almost the same price?” to “is the newer model worth roughly $131 more?”

The practical catch is timing. The offer is described as lasting only for the rest of the day, and inventory and the exact end time are unconfirmed.