The thing aboutmini PCsis … well it ’s spelled out in the name . They ’re relatively small , small enough to set well on your desktop and stay out of the way . The $ 600M2 Mac Miniis already a ok specimen of functioning at ordered series , but a new report details how Apple is planning to completely revitalise its small - scale computer along with its entire Mac lineup with AI - centrical M4 buffalo chip first consider in the latestiPad Pro . The Mac Mini , however , is going to get even more miniaturized , even small than the Apple TV .
The report comes fromBloomberg ’s Mark Gurmanwho cites several anonymous source that lay claim the Mac Mini , arevamped iMac , and MacBook Pro are all aim sequels with the M4 chip . Those are slated for passing this class . In spring of next year , we ’ll get MacBook Airs with M4 . Just a few month after that , Apple will reportedly drop an M4 Mac Pro and Mac Studio into our waiting work force .
The footprint of the Mac Mini effectively has n’t shift since the day of Steve Jobs . It ’s a 7.75 - inch straight weighing in at about 2.6 punt ( slightly more with M2 Pro ) . It measures 1.41 inches high , or about three stacks of Post - it notes laid on top of each other . The new Mac Mini would be “ near the size of an Apple TV ” box , consort to Bloomberg . That means a length and width of about 3.66 column inch .
The current Mac Mini already sits comfortably on the foot of the Apple Studio Display.Image: Apple
The Mac Mini might be more or less taller than before , but if we ’re grouse about millimeters we ’re plausibly obsessed about all the wrong things . The more important affair is port , and the new belittled - bod computer could have three USB - snow port , a power connector , and an HDMI embrasure .
Apple is jumping with both feet on the AI hype train with the release of M4 . The ease of the M - series cow dung containedneural processing capabilities , with the M3 hitting up to 19 TOPS ( trillions of cognitive process per second , a common way to assess NPU speed ) . The M4 can do 38 TOPS , which is still slightly less than the tardy ARM - base Qualcomm chipspowering Copilot+ microcomputer .
The M4 is a more powerful chip than the M3 , though by a very slender margin . It come with one more core and thread along with high-pitched GPU speeds , but in Gizmodo ’s own tests , we did n’t find out too wide a gulf between the M4 on iPad and M3 on MacBook Air . That ’s a very loose comparison considering the departure in operating scheme , so we ’ll have to expect for an M4 with MacOS to proffer a honest equivalence . Like the M3 , Apple ’s probably break to put out a M4 Pro interlingual rendition of the Mac Mini that wo n’t arrive until October , according to Gurman ’s sources . There ’s no additional word on an M4 Max , which would in all probability power the ultra - high-pitched - end MacBook Pros , Mac Pros , and Mac Studios .
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