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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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Someone is getting fried for sure.
now I probably want two, one for work and for me :')
now I probably want two, one for work and for me :')
If it is $599 for a 16GB ram model I am in - looks like it would serve as a great home server. It might also play a great role as a companion to my Vision Pro with Mac Virtual Display.
Maybe they moved the power button from back to front like with the USB-C ports
Why? M1 Pro was 8p2e. M2 Pro 8p4e. M3 Pro 6p6e. This is a step up.
M1 Max was 8p2e, M2 Max 8p4e, M3 Max 12p4e.
Damn, it is GLORIOUS.
The power button on the current minis is in the front.
No it's not...it's on the back...
Amazon has removed the photos from the listing...
Face ID spy camera.
You left off an 6p8e configuration.
The "Pro" moniker goes on the SiP that can drive more monitors than the base model. I expect the M4Pro will be able to drive 4 monitors. Hence it will have more TB4 ports.
And of course the upgrade price will be absurd.
I suppose when you put it in that context, it makes sense. I was pretty disappointed by M3 Pro going down on the performance cores, so I see 8p on the M4 Pro being on par with my current M2 Pro. Have to see what the benchmarks really say, and I'll probably get one for home and run my own benchmarks.
I do a lot of CPU-intensive tasks for work and am trying to figure out if I can justify moving from Intel to the silicon environment, and in some recent benchmarks discovered that my code runs faster on my M2 Pro when it's limited to 8 threads (as in, just the performance cores). As in, it runs slower when it includes the efficiency cores in computations. Which is really weird. So, my grand plan of asking work to buy me 2 M4 Pro minis and an M4 Ultra next summer is likely going to fall flat just based on performance if the M4 Pro just has 8 performance cores.
We'll see what the M4 Max has later this week. My last laptop from work is from 2019, so maybe I can get a new laptop, an ultra next summer, and have them upgrade the Intel CPUs on the custom computers at work and call it a day.
What is the consensus on M4 Pro being more powerful than M3 Max? That is going to be the defining characteristic on whether I am finally able to upgrade my desktop setup from a docked M3 Max 14" MBP to this new Mac mini. (Also needs to be able to comfortably drive dual 5k Apple Studio Displays but I assume that is no issue.
I am done waiting for a Mac Studio, especially since that is a bit beyond my needs anyways.
I am done waiting for a Mac Studio, especially since that is a bit beyond my needs anyways.
M3 Max will be much, much faster than M4 Pro for GPU. Dunno yet about CPU, but I'm guessing M3 Max will also be faster for multi-core CPU.
If it is, it won't be enough to make any real noticeable difference. I'm on an M1 Max, and it runs everything plenty fast.
I don’t see them giving it a 10p4e config. One of the weaknesses of the M1 Pro, IMHO, is battery life, because if just has two e-cores. The M3 Pro is much better in that regard.