Apple’sbig week of Mac announcementscontinued this daybreak with the unveiling of the M4 Mac miniskirt , featuring a new flake , a revamped design , and some authoritative computer hardware changes . significantly , it marks the first time the Mac mini has seen a major redesign since the unibody good example launched in 2010 .

The step is now just 5 by 5 inches , taking up less than half the infinite on your desk . To be fair , it ’s more or less taller now at two in ( up from 1.4 inches ) , a bit like a shrunken downMac Studio , which is 7.7 by 7.7 inches . The Modern Mac mini is also significantly light at just a Irish pound and a one-half . The premature Mac miniskirt weighed 2.6 pounds .

Thanks to the decrease in Al and manufactured with 100 % renewable materials , Apple is prognosticate the new Mac mini its first carbon paper neutral Mac .

At the same sentence , Apple has added theM4 and M4 Pro chipsto the Mac mini , add it in line with the iMac andiPad Pro . liken to the M2 chip in theprevious - contemporaries Mac mini , the M4 adds up two mainframe core for a total of 10 . That includes six functioning cores and four efficiency magnetic core .

The M4 Pro , meanwhile , get you up to a 14 - essence CPU , which come with 10 Performance cores . In at least some chore , the CPU is 1.8x quicker than the M1 , 1.4x faster than the M2 . Meanwhile , the M4 Pro is double as tight as the M2 Pro — again , at least in some job .

Graphics also get a encouragement with theM4 chip . The basal model of the M4 still start with 10 GPU cores , same as the M2 . While the bigger melioration to graphicshappened in the M3 generationwithDynamic Caching , the cores are faster , have spacious computer storage bandwidth , and twice the ray hunt performance . you may also upgrade it now to a high - end configuration with 20 GPU cores in the M4 Pro , one more Congress of Racial Equality than was available on the M2 Pro .

It should be noted that the Mac miniskirt skipped the previous genesis , so the upgrade is plump from the M2 and M2 Pro to the M4 and M4 Pro . Apple is market the M4 Mac mini as being six times faster than thetop selling personal computer desktopin the same price range .

Obviously , Apple Intelligenceis a big part of this release too , with the hike up Neural Engine in the M4 , which is twice as flying as the late generation . The core enumeration has n’t change ( still 16 cores ) , but Apple is continuing to build up example of local AI processing to speed up up tasks in Photos and Premiere Pro .

One of the handiest hardware change is the porthole selection . For easy admission , you now have two USB - C larboard on the front , next to a earphone jack — again , not unlike the Mac Studio .

As was rumor , the two USB - A ports are gone , replaced with three Thunderbolt ports in the back , which supports up to three 6 KB displays . On the M4 Pro model , those are Thunderbolt 5 ports with120Gb / sdata transfers , whereas the M4 base manikin is on Thunderbolt 4 , which 40Gb / s data transfers . fortuitously , both give you an HDMI port and Ethernet jack on back as well . The force old salt is still there , but the power push itself seems to be gone from the exposure shown .

Like with the iMac , Apple has also doubled the base memory from 8 GB to 16 GB after itfaced criticismthat the premature amount was n’t enough for multitasking and serious workloads — all without increase the start cost of $ 599 . For what it ’s worth , Apple was charging $ 200 to upgrade from 8 GB to 16 GB on the premature Mac miniskirt .

Apple uncover the new Mac miniskirt a Clarence Day after theM4 iMacwas herald in the midst of what was promised to be an“exciting week of declaration . ”The new matching Mac Mouse , Magic Keyboard , and Magic Trackpad that were announced yesterday alongside the iMac .

Apple is expected to follow up today ’s announcement at some head this week with bring theM4 to the MacBook Pro , as well .

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