Deal | Lenovo's tiny Mac mini rival with Intel Panther Lake and 16 GB RAM gets a $460 discount
Lenovo released the Yoga Mini earlier this year as a 0.65-liter Windows mini PC powered by Intel’s Panther Lake processors. As part of its early Black Friday sale, Best Buy has knocked $460 off the base model with the Core Ultra 5 325. That brings the price down from $1,059.99 to $599.99, its lowest since launch.
Lenovo pairs the 8-core Panther Lake processor with 16 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory and 512 GB of storage. The chip also has a fairly powerful iGPU and a built-in NPU with up to 47 TOPS for local AI tasks. At $599.99, the base model looks like a good value for a small desktop for everyday work that can also handle moderately demanding tasks like coding and photo editing.
If you need more power, the higher-end Yoga Mini comes with Intel's 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H and faster Arc B390 graphics, but it costs a steep $1,599.99 at Lenovo, and that is after a 25% discount.
That said, even the base model has a few extras you won’t find on the Mac mini. You can tap the top of its cylindrical 0.65-liter aluminum chassis to turn the RGB underglow on or off, share files, bring up Lenovo's new Qira AI Assistant, and more. There are two built-in microphones for meetings or interacting directly with the built-in AI assistant.
There’s a USB-A port for older peripherals, alongside two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two 10 Gbps USB-C ports, HDMI 2.1, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, and a headphone jack, as well as Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. Speaking of which, the Yoga Mini supports Wi-Fi sensing and can automatically wake or dim the display when you approach or step away from your desk.
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