The 20 Mac Mini designs still support user-accessible RAM upgrades, too. All of them use replaceable hard drives that you can upgrade to a cheap solid-state drive-and those drives are going very cheap right now. Mac Mini models rocking the Intel Core i5/i7 architecture are still getting OS updates, all the way to macOS Mojave.
If you’re still clinging on to your older Mac Mini for fear of your bank account balance, there’s a cheaper alternative: upgrade it. Here dies the “inexpensive” Apple desktop. But all that new speed and power comes with a price: $800. Apple announced a new Mac Mini last week, for the first time in four years.