Apple has upgraded Mac mini with M4 and new M4 Pro chips with faster next-generation CPU and GPU, much higher memory bandwidth, and a more powerful Neural Engine.
The new Mac mini is smaller, making it less than half the size of the previous design at just 5 by 5 inches, and features an innovative thermal architecture, which guides air to different levels of the system, while all venting is done through the foot.
In addition to the M4 chip, which made its debut in the iPad Pro, and is present in the new iMac, Apple has introduced a new M4 Pro chip with up to 14 cores, including 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores, up to 20 cores and the Neural Engine in M4 Pro is also over 3x faster than in Mac mini with M1.
The new mac mini comes standard with 16GB of faster unified memory, and the M4 Pro model supports up to 64GB of unified memory and 273GB/s of memory bandwidth.
When compared to the Mac mini with M2 Pro, Mac mini with M4 Pro applies up to 1.8x more audio effect plugins in a Logic Pro project, renders motion graphics to RAM up to 2x faster in Motion and completes 3D renders up to 2.9x faster in Blender, said the company.
The 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. There is an HDMI port, a Gigabit Ethernet port with a 10GB option, Two USB-C ports with support for USB 3 (up to 10 Gbps), headphone jack, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3. However, the USB-A ports are gone.
The new Mac mini is Apple’s first carbon-neutral Mac, and the packaging is now entirely fiber-based.
These come with 16GB / 24GB unified memory, which is configurable up to 32GB with M4 or 64GB with M4 Pro and storage is configurable up to 2TB with M4 or up to 8TB with M4 Pro.
Pricing and availability
- mac mini M4 10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD – Rs. 59900 ($599 in the US)
- mac mini M4 10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD – Rs. 79900 ($799 in the US)
- mac mini M4 10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 24GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD – Rs. 99900 ($999 in the US)
- mac mini M4 Pro 12-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 24GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD – Rs. 1,49,900 ($1399 in the US)
The new Mac mini models with M4 and M4 Pro are available to order today, October 29, on apple.com/in/store and in the Apple Store app in 28 countries and regions. They will ship starting Friday, November 8.