On Tuesday, Apple announced the new Mac mini powered by M4 and M4 Pro chips and designed around Apple silicon for superior performance, which is also its first carbon neutral Mac having achieved over a 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Measuring just 5 by 5 inches, this updated compact model is enabled by powerful Apple silicon and an innovative thermal architecture, which guides air to different levels of the system while venting through the foot, marking it as a tiny powerhouse.
With M4, Apple claims the new Mac mini delivers up to 1.8x faster CPU performance and 2.2x faster GPU performance over the M1 model. For more convenient connectivity, the front and back include USB-C ports and for the first time includes Thunderbolt 5 for faster data transfer speeds on the M4 Pro model.
Mac mini with M4 features a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and now starts with 16GB of unified memory. Users will feel the performance of M4 in everything they do, from multitasking across everyday productivity apps to creative projects like video editing and music production.
Mac mini with M4 Pro features up to 20 cores, including 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores, GPU up to twice as powerful as the GPU in M4, and both chips bring hardware-accelerated ray tracing to the Mac mini for the first time. The Neural Engine in M4 Pro is also over 3x faster than in Mac mini with M1.
Mac mini with M4 Pro supports Thunderbolt 5, which delivers up to 120 Gb/s data transfer speeds on Mac mini, and more than doubles the throughput of Thunderbolt 4. It also supports up to 64GB of unified memory and 273GB/s of memory bandwidth for accelerating AI workloads.
The new Mac mini includes a wide array of ports, such as three Thunderbolt 4 ports and an HDMI port on the back, and two USB-C ports and an audio jack on the front. The Mac mini offers Gigabit Ethernet, with availability beginning November 8.
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