Since the MacBook Pro is a laptop, you get a gorgeous Quad-HD IPS screen that supports P3 wide color gamut.
They both come with the same 8GB of unified memory (RAM) and 256GB of SSD storage for all the standard configurations.Īpple lets you custom-configure them with up to 16GB of RAM and 2TB of storage space if you really want to push the limits. The current Mac mini and the MacBook Pro feature the critically acclaimed M1 chip with eight CPU cores and eight GPU cores. You can thank the Apple Silicon that powers these Macs for that. So, you cannot go wrong no matter which one you go with. Even though one is a desktop and the other is a laptop, both the Mac Mini and the MacBook Pro pack identical hardware.
Let's start with what you get under the hood.