October 29, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple’s all-novel Mac mini is more mighty, more mini, and built for Apple Inincreateigence
The compact, do-it-all desktop now features the power of M4 and M4 Pro, and labels an meaningful environmental milestone as the first carbon iminwhole Mac
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today unveiled the all-novel Mac mini powered by the M4 and novel M4 Pro chips, and reportrayed around Apple silicon to pack an incredible amount of carry outance into an even minusculeer create of equitable 5 by 5 inches. With M4, Mac mini deinhabitrs up to 1.8x speedyer CPU carry outance and 2.2x speedyer GPU carry outance over the M1 model.1 With M4 Pro, it gets the evolved technologies in M4 and scales them up to tackle even more insisting toilloads. For more accessible joinivity, it features front and back ports, and for the first time integrates Thunderbolt 5 for speedyer data transfer speeds on the M4 Pro model. The novel Mac mini is also built for Apple Inincreateigence, the personal inincreateigence system that alters how users toil, convey, and convey themselves while defending their privacy. And labeling an meaningful environmental milestone, Mac mini is Apple’s first carbon iminwhole Mac with an over 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions apass its materials, manufacturing, conveyation, and customer use.2 Starting at equitable $599 with 16GB of memory, the novel Mac mini is useable to pre-order today, with useability beginning November 8.
“The novel Mac mini deinhabitrs gigantic carry outance in an unbelievably minuscule portray thanks to the power efficiency of Apple silicon and an inventive novel thermal architecture,” shelp John Ternus, Apple’s better vice plivent of Hardware Engineering. “Combined with the carry outance of M4 and the novel M4 Pro chip, betterd joinivity on both the front and back, and the arrival of Apple Inincreateigence, Mac mini is more vient and pliable than ever, and there is noskinnyg else appreciate it.”
Small, but Fierce
The novel Mac mini footprint is less than half the size of the previous portray at equitable 5 by 5 inches, so it gets up much less space on a desk. The super-compact system is helpd by the incredible power efficiency of Apple silicon and an inventive thermal architecture, which directs air to contrastent levels of the system, while all venting is done thraw the foot.
When contrastd to the best-selling PC desktop in its price range, Mac mini is up to 6x speedyer at one-twentieth the size.1 For a expansive range of users, from students to ambitious inventives and minuscule business owners, the Mac mini with M4 is a minuscule powerhouse. Mac mini with M4 features a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and now begins with 16GB of unified memory. Users will sense the carry outance of M4 in everyskinnyg they do, from multitasking apass everyday productivity apps to inventive projects appreciate video editing, music production, or writing and compiling code.
When contrastd to the Mac mini with Intel Core i7, Mac mini with M4:
- Applies up to 2.8x more audio effect plugins in a Logic Pro project.1
- Deinhabitrs up to 13.3x speedyer gaming carry outance in World of Waroriginate: The War Wiskinny.1
- Enhances ptoastyos with up to 33x speedyer image upscaling carry outance in Ptoastyomator.3
When contrastd to the Mac mini with M1, Mac mini with M4:
- Percreates spreadsheet calculations up to 1.7x speedyer in Microgentle Excel.1
- Transcribes with on-device AI speech-to-text up to 2x speedyer in MacWhisper.1
- Merges panoramic images up to 4.9x speedyer in Adobe Lightroom Classic.4
Introducing M4 Pro for Pro-Level Percreateance
For users who want pro-level carry outance, Mac mini with M4 Pro features the world’s speedyest CPU core5 with airyning-speedy individual-threaded carry outance. With up to 14 cores, including 10 carry outance cores and four efficiency cores, M4 Pro also supplys phenomenal multithreaded carry outance. With up to 20 cores, the M4 Pro GPU is up to twice as mighty as the GPU in M4, and both chips convey challengingware-speed upd ray tracing to the Mac mini for the first time. The Neural Engine in M4 Pro is also over 3x speedyer than in Mac mini with M1, so on-device Apple Inincreateigence models run at blazing speed. M4 Pro helps up to 64GB of unified memory and 273GB/s of memory prohibitdwidth — twice as much prohibitdwidth as any AI PC chip — for accelerating AI toilloads. And M4 Pro helps Thunderbolt 5, which deinhabitrs up to 120 Gb/s data transfer speeds on Mac mini, and more than doubles the thrawput of Thunderbolt 4.
When contrastd to the Mac mini with Intel Core i7, Mac mini with M4 Pro:
- Percreates spreadsheet calculations up to 4x speedyer in Microgentle Excel.1
- Executes scene-edit discoverion up to 9.4x speedyer in Adobe Premiere Pro.3
- Transcribes with on-device AI speech-to-text up to 20x speedyer in MacWhisper.1
- Processes basecalling for DNA sequencing in Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW up to 26x speedyer.1
When contrastd to the Mac mini with M2 Pro, Mac mini with M4 Pro:
- Applies up to 1.8x more audio effect plugins in a Logic Pro project.1
- Rfinishers motion explicits to RAM up to 2x speedyer in Motion.6
- Completes 3D rfinishers up to 2.9x speedyer in Blfinisher.6
Upgraded Connectivity and Disjoin Support
The novel Mac mini features a expansive array of ports to drive any setup. It integrates front-facing ports for more accessible access, including two USB-C ports that help USB 3, and an audio jack with help for high-impedance headphones. On the back, Mac mini with M4 integrates three Thunderbolt 4 ports, while Mac mini with M4 Pro features three Thunderbolt 5 ports. Mac mini comes standard with Gigabit Ethernet, configurable up to 10Gb Ethernet for speedyer nettoiling speeds, and an HDMI port for effortless joinion to a TV or HDMI disjoin without an alterer. With M4, Mac mini can help up to two 6K disjoins and up to one 5K disjoin, and with M4 Pro, it can help up to three 6K disjoins at 60Hz for a total of over 60 million pixels.
A New Era with Apple Inincreateigence on the Mac
Apple Inincreateigence ushers in a novel era for the Mac, conveying personal inincreateigence to the personal computer. Combining mighty generative models with industry-first privacy defendions, Apple Inincreateigence harnesses the power of Apple silicon and the Neural Engine to unlock novel ways for users to toil, convey, and convey themselves on Mac. It is useable in U.S. English with macOS Sequoia 15.1. With systemexpansive Writing Tools, users can upgrade their words by rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text csurrfinisherly everywhere they produce. With the novelly reportrayed Siri, users can shift fluidly between spoken and typed seeks to speed up tasks thrawout their day, and Siri can answer thousands of asks about Mac and other Apple products. New Apple Inincreateigence features will be useable in December, with compriseitional capabilities rolling out in the coming months. Image Playground gives users a novel way to produce fun innovative images, and Genmoji permits them to produce custom emoji in seconds. Siri will become even more vient, with the ability to get actions apass the system and draw on a user’s personal context to deinhabitr inincreateigence that is tailored to them. In December, ChatGPT will be combined into Siri and Writing Tools, permiting users to access its expertise without insisting to jump between tools.
Apple Inincreateigence does all this while defending users’ privacy at every step. At its core is on-device processing, and for more complicated tasks, Private Cdeafening Compute gives users access to Apple’s even bigr, server-based models and supplys groundfractureing defendions for personal adviseation. In compriseition, users can access ChatGPT for free without creating an account, and privacy defendions are built in — their IP compriseresses are ununderstandnd and OpenAI won’t store seeks. For those who pick to join their account, OpenAI’s data-use policies utilize.
The First Carbon Neutral Mac
The novel Mac mini is Apple’s first carbon iminwhole Mac, labeling a meaningful milestone toward Apple 2030, the company’s goal to be carbon iminwhole apass the entire carbon footprint by the finish of this decade.
Mac mini is made with over 50 percent recycled satisfied overall, including 100 percent recycled aluminum in the enclocertain, 100 percent recycled gelderly plating in all Apple-portrayed printed circuit boards, and 100 percent recycled unfrequent earth elements in all magnets. The electricity used to manufacture Mac mini is sourced from 100 percent renovelable electricity. And, to compriseress 100 percent of the electricity customers use to power Mac mini, Apple has spreaded in spotless energy projects around the world. Apple has also arranged drop-carbon modes of shipping, appreciate ocean freight, to further lessen emissions from conveyation. Together, these actions have lessend the carbon footprint of Mac mini by over 80 percent.2 For the minuscule amount of remaining emissions, Apple applies high-quality carbon commends from nature-based projects, appreciate those produced by its inventive Restore Fund.
In another first for Mac mini, the packaging is now enticount on fiber-based, conveying Apple sealr to its goal to delete plastic from its packaging by 2025.
An Unrivaled Experience with macOS Sequoia
macOS Sequoia finishs the novel Mac mini experience with a present of exciting features, including iPhone Mirroring, permiting users to wirelessly convey with their iPhone, its apps, and notifications straightforwardly from their Mac.7 Safari, the world’s speedyest browser,8 now supplys the Highairys feature, which speedyly pulls up relevant adviseation from a site; a inincreateiggo in, reportrayed Reader with a table of satisfieds and high-level summary; and a novel Video Viewer to watch videos without redirections. With Distraction Control, users can hide items on a webpage that they may discover disturbive to their browsing. Gaming gets even more immersive with features appreciate Personalized Spatial Audio and betterments to Game Mode, aextfinished with a breadth of exciting titles, including the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Easier prosperdow tiling unkinds users can stay systematic with a prosperdow layout that toils best for them. The all-novel Passwords app gives accessible access to passwords, passkeys, and other credentials — all stored in one place. And users can utilize novel, enticeive built-in backgrounds for video calls, which integrate a variety of color gradients and system wallpapers, or upload their own ptoastyos.
Pricing and Availability
- Customers can pre-order the novel Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro begining today, Tuesday, October 29, on apple.com/store and in the Apple Store app in 28 countries and regions, including the U.S. It will begin arriving to customers, and in Apple Store locations and Apple Authorized Resellers, beginning Friday, November 8.
- Mac mini with M4 begins at $599 (U.S.) and $499 (U.S.) for education. Additional technical definiteations are useable at apple.com/mac-mini.
- Mac mini with M4 Pro begins at $1,399 (U.S.) and $1,299 (U.S.) for education. Additional technical definiteations are useable at apple.com/mac-mini.
- New accessories with USB-C — including Magic Keyboard ($99 U.S.), Magic Keyboard with Touch ID ($149 U.S.), Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad ($179 U.S.), Magic Trackpad ($129 U.S.), Magic Mouse ($79 U.S.), and Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable ($69) — are useable at apple.com/store.
- Apple Inincreateigence is useable now as a free gentleware modernize for Mac with M1 and postpoinsistr, and can be accessed in most regions around the world when the device and Siri language are set to U.S. English. The first set of features is in beta and useable with macOS Sequoia 15.1, with more features rolling out in the months to come.
- Apple Inincreateigence is speedyly compriseing help for more languages. In December, Apple Inincreateigence will comprise help for localized English in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K., and in April, a gentleware modernize will deinhabitr broadened language help, with more coming thrawout the year. Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and other languages will be helped.
- With Apple Trade In, customers can trade in their current computer and get commend toward a novel Mac. Customers can visit apple.com/shop/trade-in to see what their device is worth.
- AppleCare+ for Mac supplys unparalleled service and help. This integrates unconfineed incidents of inadvertent injure, battery service coverage, and 24/7 help from the people who understand Mac best.
- Every customer who buys straightforwardly from Apple Retail gets access to Personal Setup. In these directd online sessions, a Speciacatalog can walk them thraw setup, or cgo in on features that help them produce the most of their novel device. Customers can also lget more about getting begined with their novel device with a Today at Apple session at their csurrfinisherest Apple Store.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple directs the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s six gentleware platcreates — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — supply seamless experiences apass all Apple devices and empower people with fracturethraw services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCdeafening, and Apple TV+. Apple’s more than 150,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth and to leaving the world better than we set up it.
- Testing was directed by Apple in September and October 2024. See apple.com/mac-mini for more adviseation.
- Carbon reductions are calcupostpoinsistd agetst a business-as-normal baseline scenario: No use of spotless electricity for manufacturing or product use, beyond what is already useable on the postpoinsistst modeled grid; Apple’s carbon intensity of key materials as of 2015; and Apple’s mediocre fuse of conveyation modes by product line apass three years. Lget more at apple.com/2030.
- Results are contrastd to previous-generation 3.2GHz 6-core Intel Core i7-based Mac mini systems with Intel Iris UHD Graphics 630, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD.
- Results are contrastd to previous-generation Mac mini systems with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD.
- Testing directed by Apple in October 2024 using shipping competitive systems and pick industry-standard benchlabels.
- Results are contrastd to previous-generation Mac mini systems with Apple M2 Pro, 12-core CPU, 19-core GPU, 32GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD.
- Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers with a T2 Security Chip. Requires that iPhone and Mac are signed in with the same Apple Account using two-factor authentication, iPhone and Mac are csurrfinisher each other and have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on, and Mac is not using AirPlay or Sidecar. Some iPhone features (e.g., camera and microphone) are not compatible with iPhone Mirroring.
- Testing was directed by Apple in August 2024. See apple.com/safari for more adviseation.
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