• Apple introduces hardware-accelerated ray tracing to the Mac mini
• The base model of the M4 Mac mini will use 16 GB of unified memory
• This is the best value Apple desktop PC, starting at $599

Appleis the great revelation of M4 chips Last week it promised significant improvements across the board for its Mac devices, and the Mac mini M4 could benefit from one of the biggest upgrades: a feature called “hardware-accelerated ray tracing” for gaming.

The Cupertino company considered playing on previous Apple Silicon Macs, but the latest base model Mac-mini M2 used only 8 GB of unified memory (similar to the base M2 and M3 models of the MacBook Pro), and since this memory is shared between system memory and video memory (hence its name “unified”), this meant these chips couldn’t handle advanced graphics. like ray tracing. However, the base model of the M4 Mac mini starting at $599 (£599 / AU$999) comes with 16GB of unified memory.