For nearly half of this year, the Mac Mini was unavailable to buy; it was either sold out at retailers or subject to wait times that stretched up to three months long. But at the end of August, Apple launched a new model, which not only introduced the M6 (or M5 Pro) chip inside, but also restocked the Mac Mini so that you can actually just go out and buy one. The sharp escalation in demand even took Apple by surprise, by its own admission.