If price remains the same, an M4 mini 16/512 would be $799 with and upgrade to either 24GB or to 1TB of storage would be right at the $999 threshold. That price to performance ratio is going to be pretty hard to beat.
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Amazon Leaks Smaller Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips, Two Front USB-C Ports, Up to 64GB of RAM, and More
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Because there may be no room for the audio jack on the back...?
Man, I thought I was the sh*t with my Power Mac 9500, Media 100 card, & dual 21" Sony CRTs "back in the day"...
This has been fairly apparent since Apple silicon debuted with the M1-series of SoCs; doubtful it will change anytime soon...
Apple wanted to get the bottom-charging mouse out yesterday so they could weather the heat and not have attention diverted from the rest of the announcements throughout the week. A tacit admission they know the mouse would be controversial.
Well you certainly can't into your iPad, or iPhone. And the last Mac to feature a headphone port on the front was the Mac Pro last sold in 2012. Just seems an odd choice to place in such a prominent position.
Ugh no usb-a means I’d be back to dongle city for my setup.
“And just look at these (don’t call them dongles) peripheral-friends folks! Can’t innovate my poodle!”
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Actually, some lanes that lead to external ports could be held inside for m.2 slots. Conceptually, Apple could put USB-C ports INSIDE of a case and one could crack it open and plug USB-C anything inside. Or a user could hardware hack a port and turn it inwards if there was room.
Apple certainly could "architect" m.2 slots if they were willing. Something (hint:💰💰💰) keeps them from being motivated.
Definitely gives me pause about upgrading to this. I don’t want to get dongles or those docks. Sigh. I’ll hold off.
I said it before. The change to 16GB being base is going to be a game changer and make the base models across the board the hottest selling item.
I’m expecting a gradual decline in Mac market share after this week.
I wish Apple would bring back the optical audio port, I prefer that connection for my Logitech THX 2.1 speakers...
That's exactly what I'm worried about
It would also allow them to price tier out Ethernet, like the iMac, to make it an upgrade option
Mac sales will skyrocket after this week. Mac Sales will absolute dominate with a close gap to iPhone sales.
1. iPhone
2. Services
3. Mac
4. iPad
5. Watch
Actually, I think Apple is poised to increase share in consumer desktops and laptops with these M4 announcements.
The best news here, in my view, is simply the RAM being finally at an "ok" starting point, which will bring third party retailers and preowned options finally into play for more of us.
Of course, the storage situation is still ridiculous (locked down and wildly overpriced), but that at least can be dealt with, unlike a lack of RAM
Of course, the storage situation is still ridiculous (locked down and wildly overpriced), but that at least can be dealt with, unlike a lack of RAM
M2 16/512 is currently £1049 here in the UK, the same as I paid when it was the M1 version. If they include 16gb at the previous 8gb price, it’ll be £849 here.
I’m personally thinking about upgrading my 16” Intel MacBook Pro to a new 14” M4, but depending on the number of ports on the new Mini, and the price of the new MBP, that Mini M4 might be hard to resist!
Apple was widely rumored to be testing a single-die version of the Ultra for the M3 generation, but the yield issues of the N3B process probably led to an unacceptably high defect rate.
Apple didn't include the UltraFusion interlink on the M3 Max chip to enable them to be stitched together to make an M3 Ultra, hence why they didn't fall back on that to refresh the Studio and Pro. But if the M4 Ultra is a single-die chip then it's possible they put the UltraFusion interlink on that to allow for a 2X Ultra and thus the equivalent of the mythical 4X Extreme/Mega/Ludicrous Speed chip (which would probably be a Mac Pro exclusive chip).
Apple is supposedly adopting a tile based approach with the M5 instead of a monolithic SoC die, which would allow greater flexibility to mix and match CPU, GPU, and NPU cores with the various I/O and memory controller components.
Since up to 20 core GPU is two more than M3’s 18, I think we can then extrapolate to up to 44 core GPU in the Max, four more than M3’s 40? The big question for the Max is will they stagger the GPU count/memory bandwidth, like they did for M3 (30/300 then 40/400) or will they go back to the M1/M2 model?
My guess is they will stagger it.
My guess is they will stagger it.