The Mac Mini manages to be a bit of a powerhouse in its tiny form factor. You can get the full Mac experience while taking up such little space on your desk. Though, when you compare it to the compatibility options available on full desktop PCs or the iMac, the Mac Mini can leave a bit to be desired. The good news is you can expand what your Mac Mini is capable of by adding on a UGREEN Mac Mini dock stand. It’ll add a handful of extra ports and plugins so you can connect to more devices at once. Right now, Amazon even has it on sale. The dock stand normally sells for $63, but a 13% discount has it take down to just $55. You’ll end up saving eight bucks for a limited time.
Expandable Storage
A major benefit of connecting to the UGREEN Mac Mini dock and stand is that it allows you to expand your storage capacity. The most storage a new Mac Mini can ship with is 512GB, but the UGREEN dock and stand can contains an M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure that can house up to 8TB—significantly more than the Mac Mini out of the box. Do note that the dock and stand does not actually include an SSD. You’ll have to source that elsewhere.
Plethora of Ports
The Mac Mini dock and stand from UGREEN ends up adding 11 high speed ports to your setup. It’s equipped with three USB-A 3.2 ports capable of data speeds of up to 10Gbps, two USB-A 3.0 ports that can reach 5Gbps, two USB-C 3.2 ports that hit 10Gbps, plus a UHS-I SD/TF card reader capable of 170MB/s. The ports that reach 10Gbps are great for enabling large file transfers, 4K editing, or backing up your whole system, all while managing to keep your desk organized and free of clutter.
The UGREEN dock and stand has been engineered to precisely fit the Mac Mini M6, matching the curve and footprint to a tee. If you’ve ever had that old expansion stand for the Nintendo GameCube that lets you play Game Boy Advance games on your TV, it kinds of reminds me of that, except this is way sleeker. This has a metal cover that matches that on the Mac Mini itself, looking like it very well could have been produced by Apple themselves even though we know it wasn’t. The dock and stand will fit the Mac Mini M5 Pro and Mac Mini M4 as well.