Twenty years of the Mac mini, the little Mac that could

It's once again a fan favorite with its new M4 version, but 20 years after Steve Jobs launched the introduced the switchers. Yet it never quite seemed to do what , even when the company has tried to forget about it.

It's the Mac that created an industry of firms that hosted hundreds and thousands of Mac minis for remote users. And it's the entry-level machine that began as the most affordable Mac ever made, and still is — even though it now starts at $200 more than it did in 2005.