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Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M2 and M2 Pro Chips at Lower $599 Starting Price
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The Intel Mac mini is now gone from the Apple Store:
Very useful for plugging in flash drives, which to this day, are still stuck on the USB-A standard, for some reason. Sure, you can find USB-C flash drives, but for whatever reason, 99.9% of flash drives are still using the USB-A standard, hence why you need it in a Mac Mini.
It has Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Edit - okay no, it does have Thunderbolt 4. Not sure what happened there. Maybe I was temporarily seeing a cached old version of the page?? Sorry folks... ignore me.
Thank God...or Tim Cook...no...that sounds weird. God it is.
That's more like it!! Question - what would I need to do in order for 16GB to not be enough? I always have around 5-6 apps open at once, mainly Adobe Creative Cloud. Currently used to 32GB on an i5 iMac which sometimes slows for unknown reasons. Can I expect silky smooth with 16GB or would 32GB be a safer bet?
It says 4 for both:
"Two Thunderbolt 4 ports (M2) or four Thunderbolt 4 ports (M2 Pro) with support for:"
Both the M2 and M2 Pro have Thunderbolt 4 ports.
NB: The text of the article says the new Mac mini has only 2 thunderbolt 4 ports. It doesn't make clear that the M2Pro version does have four.
(Thank God. I could not *believe* it wouldn't, hence going to check!)
That looks quite nice now, quite possibly soothing my lust for the base model Mac Studio. (Which is a shame as I love the Mac Studio.)
No new iMac. Guess the one I just bought is OK after all 😉
(Thank God. I could not *believe* it wouldn't, hence going to check!)
That looks quite nice now, quite possibly soothing my lust for the base model Mac Studio. (Which is a shame as I love the Mac Studio.)
No new iMac. Guess the one I just bought is OK after all 😉
For long term use and upgradability purposes, I would suggest sticking to 32 GB as you can't upgrade the RAM after the fact, so if you need it in the future, for whatever reason, you will have to buy a new Mac.
Can’t believe this needs to be said over and over and over and over and over again but…
3NM only started going into production two weeks ago. December 30.
5NM took six months to go from beginning production to actually being put inside devices.
Now things are even more constraint.
The first 3NM device will be the iPhone, just like the first 5NM device was an iPhone and the first 7NM device was an iPhone.
Tbh once you max it out you’re getting into studio territory