Apple just dropped two very different kinds of Mac

Apple quietly made this a pretty interesting desktop week. The new Mac mini with M6 is the everyday machine getting a serious upgrade. Apple says the new 2nm M6 brings up to 40% faster CPU performance, along with major gains in graphics, storage and on-device AI. Then there's the completely different beast: Mac Studio with M5 Ultra. This thing is aimed squarely at people doing ridiculous workloads — up to a 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU and 512GB of unified memory. Apple is also pushing the local-AI angle pretty hard. Honestly, I'm more interested in the gap between these two machines than either product individually. You've got a tiny $-friendly desktop that can handle everyday work and AI, sitting in the same lineup as a machine designed for filmmakers, developers, VFX artists and people running massive AI models locally. Question for the community: If you were building a new Mac setup today, would you go small with the M6 Mac mini, or go completely overboard with the M5 Ultra Studio? Apple Newsroom: M6 and M5 Ultra announcement: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-... https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-...