Apple Mac Mini M5 Pro review: Serious power, for the right users

4.0 / 5 Very good Versatile, powerful, and compact. Wide range of hardware configurations. Supports up to three external 6K displays. Standard 2.5Gb ethernet with a 10Gb option. Recent price hikes make it more expensive than ever. Memory is not upgradeable. Bring your own peripherals. Alongside what is perhaps the flashiest product it’s ever made, Apple announced the latest Mac Minis: its utilitarian and compact desktop in both an entry-level configuration with the base model M6 chip — the latest in Apple Silicon — and the more powerful (and pricier) M5 Pro chip, broadening the appeal of the tiny desktop powerhouse to an ever-wider audience. The Mini remains Apple’s most versatile Mac, customizable with a wide range of peripherals and available in multiple configurations starting as low as $899 for the M6 and up to several thousand dollars for the M5 Pro with up to 64GB of unified memory and 8TB of local storage. I spent the last week with the…