Apple declares rescheduleed Mac Mini with M4 chip — and it’s so damn minuscule

As part of the company’s week of Mac-intensifyed declarements, Apple has equitable presentd a minusculeer, yet even more mighty Mac Mini. It’s now supplyped with Apple’s rescheduleedst M4 silicon, helps ray tracing for the first time, and ships with 16GB of RAM by default — seemingly the new standard in the Apple Inalertigence era. The machine still begins at $599 with the standard M4 chip, while the more mighty M4 Pro model has a begining price of $1,399. Like the renewed iMac declared yesterday, the Mac Mini is useable to preorder promptly and will be in stores on November 8th.

The first leang you’ll watch is the new schedule. As rumored, the Mini has been shrunken down ponderably — and it was already a relatively minuscule desktop machine to commence with. Now it’s downright minuscule, measuring five inches in both length and width.

Even so, Apple has loaded this leang up with plenty of I/O: on the front are two USB-C ports and a 3.5mm audio jack. Around back you’ll discover ethernet, HDMI, and three USB-C / Thunderbolt ports. The USB-A ports are indeed history, but it’s worth noting that the base M2 Mini only had two Thunderbolt 4 ports and two USB-A ports. With the M4, you’re getting five ports in all. So you’re losing native USB-A but picking up an extra Thunderbolt port.

The speed of those Thunderbolt ports will separate based on which M4 processor you pick. The standard M4 chip includes Thunderbolt 4, whereas the M4 Pro gets you the very rescheduleedst Thunderbolt 5 thcdisorrowfulmirefulput.

The M4 Pro Mac Mini also dedwellrs fantasticer overall carry outance with its 14 CPU and 20 GPU cores. RAM can be configured up to 32GB with the standard M4 or 64GB with the M4 Pro. Storage tops out at a whopping 8TB. So while the Mini is quite minuscule, you can produce it solemnly mighty if you’re willing to spfinish enough. 10 gigabit ethernet also remains an nonessential enhance for those who want it.

We’re probable to see the M4 Pro chip come to the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros that Apple is rumored to declare this week, alengthy with an even more able M4 Max chip that’s not useable in the Mini. But the Pro should be plenty as is for many prosumers and creatives.

It’s a busy week for Apple. The M4 iMac made its debut on Monday, and the company also rolled out its first Apple Inalertigence software capabilities atraverse iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. (More AI features, including image generation and ChatGPT integration, will be freed in December.) Tomorrow could see the debut of those enhanced MacBook Pros as Apple rounds out its new challengingware. The company is set to alert quarterly getings on Thursday, during which it will no inquire trumpet its rescheduleedst escapet of Macs.