Friends and colleagues call me ‘the Apple Hater’, but my only Cyber Monday purchase this year was a certain excellent little Apple product…

Look, it really hurts me to admit this. I’m not even kidding: I’ve spent years cultivating a reputation, a persona, as a die-hard skeptic of Apple’s hardware and business practices. And yet, I only bought one thing this holiday sales period – and it was the latest Apple Mac mini.

I bought mine at a physical store over the weekend (yes, even we tech journos still enjoy an in-person shopping trip), but in all seriousness, this is a truly nutty discount: the M4 Mac mini is literally less than a month old (it launched on November 8), yet it’s already down to $529 (was $599) at B&H Photo.

I cannot stress enough how good this deal is. We wondered in our M4 Mac mini review whether this might actually be the best Mac ever, and for good reason: despite a newly shrunken chassis that makes it the smallest Apple Mac product in history, it’s a powerhouse personal computer that offers brilliant performance at an extremely reasonable price.

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Why am I finally caving and buying a Mac? Well, I’ve just bought my first house (I’m moving later this month!) and it’s a bit of a downsize compared to my current rental property – in the home office department, at least. So, with a heavy heart, I am saying goodbye to my trusty gaming PC; desktop real estate is about to be at a premium in my home, so I want something small but powerful, and the M4 Mac mini checks all my boxes.

Frankly, it’s absurd that this Mac mini is already on sale – I spotted it for $40 off before Black Friday landed, but a $70 discount (more than 10% off) this soon after release is crazy. Not that I’m complaining, mind you.

I’ll survive without my chunky old gaming desktop – I’ll have a few consoles hooked up to the TV downstairs, and I also own an Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC (which you can pick up discounted yourself right now, too!) for gaming in bed or on the couch.