https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/01/mac_mini_uninhibited_and_for_grown_ups/

Analysis The world's fourth biggest PC company sells three desktop PC lines, but it hadn't updated one of those three for four years. Maybe Apple had forgotten that the humble and unassuming Mac mini was there at all. But it fixed that this week.

The Mac mini has been revived as a machine for grown-ups, professionals such as programmers. It flaunts its legacy ports in other Apple products' faces. While it's much more expensive than before (at £799 and £1,099+), it's much more capable too.