Apple announced its latest entry to the Mac mini family with the new, compact Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro chips. Sporting a smaller footprint than the previous model, the new Mac mini not only takes up less space on your desktop, but it also provides you with additional connectivity options to help streamline your setup.
Designed with Apple Intelligence in mind, the Mac mini comes in two models with the M4 and the M4 Pro processor. Each boasts impressive performance suitable for handling a wide range of tasks from chatting with others to media editing. The base M4 chip provides you with 10 cores for main processing and a 10-core GPU, which handles graphically intensive applications from your essential design software to your favorite games. Models sporting the M4 chip can be customized, scaling performance to your workload with up to 32GB of unified memory and up to 2TB of SSD storage.
Providing you with additional power to handle resource-demanding tasks is the M4 Pro chip. Leveraging a 12-core CPU and a 16-core GPU, you get even greater performance to tackle small and medium scale video editing projects. The Mac mini also offers configurable unified memory and storage up to 64GB and 8TB, respectively, giving you greater multitasking, rendering, and application speeds.
Connectivity wise, the new Mac mini now features two USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports at the front along with a 3.5mm combo audio jack for convenient connectivity for various devices. On the rear panel, a single HDMI port is available for the display of your choice which can produce up to 8K resolution at 60 Hz or 4K resolution at 240 Hz.
On Mac Mini models with the M4 chip, you get three Thunderbolt 4 ports which support data transfer speeds up to 40 Gb/s and native DisplayPort 1.4 output over USB-C for smooth visuals. Models with the M4 Pro chip get three Thunderbolt 5 ports which support up to 80 Gb/s data transfer speeds and DisplayPort 2.1 output for even greater performance for your resource-demanding peripherals and displays.
Additionally, you can configure the Mac mini with either Gigabit LAN or 10 Gigabit LAN for faster networking speeds, essential for uploading and downloading important assets. Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 technologies are also built into the Mac mini for wireless connectivity to your network and your peripherals.
The Mac mini wasn’t the only big reveal this week. Apple also announced an all-new iMac desktop featuring the powerful M4 chip and Apple Intelligence, as well as new models of the MacBook Pro featuring the recently expanded family of Apple M4 silicon—the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max. Be sure to check out our coverage of each of these big announcements for all of the exciting details and information.
And for even more information about the new Apple Mac Mini, including additional features, specs, and highlights, be sure to check out the mini's detailed product page. Pre-orders will be available soon, with a launch date of November 8, 2024.
