Apple Introduces Very Mini Mac Mini

<p><strong>CUPERTINO <&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; Apple has unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips&comma; and redesigned around Apple silicon to pack an incredible amount of performance into an even smaller form of just 5 by 5 inches&period; With M4&comma; Mac mini delivers up to 1&period;8x faster CPU performance and 2&period;2x faster GPU performance over the M1 model With M4 Pro&comma; it takes the advanced technologies in M4 and scales them up to tackle even more demanding workloads&period; For more convenient connectivity&comma; it features front and back ports&comma; and for the first time includes Thunderbolt 5 for faster data transfer speeds on the M4 Pro model&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new Mac mini is also built for Apple Intelligence&comma; the personal intelligence system that transforms how users work&comma; communicate&comma; and express themselves while protecting their privacy&period; And marking an important environmental milestone&comma; Mac mini is Apple’s first carbon neutral Mac with an over 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across its materials&comma; manufacturing&comma; transportation&comma; and customer use&period; Starting at just &dollar;599 with 16GB of memory&comma; the new Mac mini is available to pre-order today&comma; with availability beginning November 8&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The new Mac mini delivers gigantic performance in an unbelievably small design thanks to the power efficiency of Apple silicon and an innovative new thermal architecture&comma;” said John Ternus&comma; Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Combined with the performance of M4 and the new M4 Pro chip&comma; enhanced connectivity on both the front and back&comma; and the arrival of Apple Intelligence&comma; Mac mini is more capable and versatile than ever&comma; and there is nothing else like it&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new Mac mini footprint is less than half the size of the previous design at just 5 by 5 inches&comma; so it takes up much less space on a desk&period; The super-compact system is enabled by the incredible power efficiency of Apple silicon and an innovative thermal architecture&comma; which guides air to different levels of the system&comma; while all venting is done through the foot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For users who want pro-level performance&comma; Mac mini with M4 Pro features the world’s fastest CPU core5 with lightning-fast single-threaded performance&period; With up to 14 cores&comma; including 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores&comma; M4 Pro also provides phenomenal multithreaded performance&period; With up to 20 cores&comma; the M4 Pro GPU is up to twice as powerful as the GPU in M4&comma; and both chips bring hardware-accelerated ray tracing to the Mac mini for the first time&period; The Neural Engine in M4 Pro is also over 3x faster than in Mac mini with M1&comma; so on-device Apple Intelligence models run at blazing speed&period; M4 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory and 273GB&sol;s of memory bandwidth — twice as much bandwidth as any AI PC chip — for accelerating AI workloads&period; And M4 Pro supports Thunderbolt 5&comma; which delivers up to 120 Gb&sol;s data transfer speeds on Mac mini&comma; and more than doubles the throughput of Thunderbolt 4&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new Mac mini features a wide array of ports to drive any setup&period; It includes front-facing ports for more convenient access&comma; including two USB-C ports that support USB 3&comma; and an audio jack with support for high-impedance headphones&period; On the back&comma; Mac mini with M4 includes three Thunderbolt 4 ports&comma; while Mac mini with M4 Pro features three Thunderbolt 5 ports&period; Mac mini comes standard with Gigabit Ethernet&comma; configurable up to 10Gb Ethernet for faster networking speeds&comma; and an HDMI port for easy connection to a TV or HDMI display without an adapter&period; With M4&comma; Mac mini can support up to two 6K displays and up to one 5K display&comma; and with M4 Pro&comma; it can support up to three 6K displays at 60Hz for a total of over 60 million pixels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mac mini with M4 starts at &dollar;599 and &dollar;499 for education&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mac mini with M4 Pro starts at &dollar;1&comma;399 and &dollar;1&comma;299 for education&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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