No tough adhesive holds the M2 Mac mini or its components hostage.

Use of a few common tools, disassembly is straight-forward.

The disassembly does not differ significantly from the M1 mini, which makes many repairs familiar.

Apple's poor thermal paste job might prove to be a problem later on.

All I/O ports are soldered directly to the logic board. If one breaks then the whole board needs to be replaced.

Upgrading components like storage or memory are almost impossible due to the integration with the processor.

The CPU and storage are both soldered to the logic board and not user-upgradeable.