Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips, Two Front USB-C Ports, and More

[psymac]

It’s on the bottom lol

So it is OK to just leave it on all the time?

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

I unlock with Apple Watch.

Yeah i don't wear one, think i'm best off just sticking with a Macbook Pro.

Design of this Mini is lovely though. I think if it fits what you need it should be a great computer, no price hikes either.

Its long past time 256gb died though.

 

[CraigsDog]

So it is OK to just leave it on all the time?

I never turn mine off

 

[mcru21]

So it is OK to just leave it on all the time?

yeah i rarely turn off my mac, it just sleeps when not in use

 

[gigapocket1]

These prices really aren't bad

 

[AND411]

The base RAM being 16GB is the best news of all

24 gb for the M4 pro! I can‘ believe it! And just $400 for additional 24 gigs! I guess, they didn‘t ask Tim Apple 😂

 

[Attirex]

Non-pro, 24GB RAM, 1TB drive, ORDERED. Mother in law will get my M2 Mini.

Isn't that exciting news for everyone who doesn't give a crap? Yep.

 

[Antoniosmalakia]

It has one

It's just stupidly placed on the underside...

 

[neomorpheus]

Some takes:

• If it has a fan, I can guarantee that you will need some kind of filter at the bottom, to minimize the amount of dust gathered, since it will be a nightmare to open it in order to properly dust it off. Ask Mac Studio owners.
• 256GB of storage is an insult and even borderline criminal abuse of their customers. Their "storage upgrades" prices are a slap on the face to their loyal customers and a reminder that they have us by the short ones.
• Headphone jack up front benefits only the people that constantly plug/unplug headphones, in a place like an agile office. The rest will treat this as a proper desktop computer, hence the jack should be at the back.
• Power button at the bottom is not that bad actually.

I know that many of us would never consider a PC, but for the ones that do see these things as tools and hate being taken advantage off thanks to our loyalty, consider the following:

• Mini PC's comes with 32 GB RAM and 1 TB NVME's for around US$700, with a copy of Winblows.
• Many are expandable with external GPUs.
• RAM and storage is expandable and user replaceable.
• Can run Linux easily.
• Easy to open and clean.

If Apple didnt r*aped us with the criminal overpriced upgrades, this Mac Mini like others systems, would be simply perfect, but I don't know, Apple keeps making things more difficult than they needs to be.

 

[hagjohn]

Holy F- Thunderbolt 5? That's the one thing I've been holding out for to hook up some 5k 120hz refresh monitors.

Make sure you notice this.

Three Thunderbolt 4 ports (M4);
three Thunderbolt 5 ports (M4 Pro)

 

[AppleTO]

The Mini computer will be ruled by Apple! Geekom, Minisforum, bee-link, etc are now taking note! Apple will conquer this segment. I see these selling like hotcakes! I can see an increase of market share over the next two years. Price points are incredible!

I mean… unless you need to run any other OS, then it’s useless.

Maybe to consumers yes, but this won’t mean much to businesses.

 

[kmpowell]

24 gb for the M4 pro! I can‘ believe it! And just $200 for additional 24 gigs! I guess, they didn‘t ask Tim Apple 😂

You might want to go and re-check that price for the additional 24GB on the Pro...

 

[jaehaerys48]

Looks great. I'm glad they kept active cooling.

 

[SactoGuy18]

So essentially it's a reduced-height Mac Studio. Nice design, though.

 

[gavroche]

$499 on the edu store with 16gb ram holy moly that is some good stuff

I have always loved the mini price. Unfortunately, by the time you add more SSD and Ram the price quickly triples.

 

[deaglecat]

Fan question is important to thermal throttling. I don't really like the language of "whole new thermal architecture".

Will probably order one, and if it is a throttle monster ...then it can (will) be returned.

 

[mthomas184]

When it actually works 😂

I honestly wish we could use a Yubikey to replicate Touch ID because I agree, my Apple Watch is hit or miss with mine

 

[MacFan782040]

Convenience. Most people don't use headphone amps or DAC's.

Yeah but even just regular desktop speakers, now you have a wire coming out of the front.

 

[AAPLGeek]

Some takes:

• If it has a fan, I can guarantee that you will need some kind of filter at the bottom, to minimize the amount of dust gathered, since it will be a nightmare to open it in order to properly dust it off. Ask Mac Studio owners.
• 256GB of storage is an insult and even borderline criminal abuse of their customers. Their "storage upgrades" prices are a slap on the face to their loyal customers and a reminder that they have us by the short ones.
• Headphone jack up front benefits only the people that constantly plug/unplug headphones, in a place like an agile office. The rest will treat this as a proper desktop computer, hence the jack should be at the back.
• Power button at the bottom is not that bad actually.

I know that many of us would never consider a PC, but for the ones that do see these things as tools and hate being taken advantage off thanks to our loyalty, consider the following:

• Mini PC's comes with 32 GB RAM and 1 TB NVME's for around US$700, with a copy of Winblows.
• Many are expandable with external GPUs.
• RAM and storage is expandable and user replaceable.
• Can run Linux easily.
• Easy to open and clean.

If Apple didnt r*aped us with the criminal overpriced upgrades, this Mac Mini like others systems, would be simply perfect, but I don't know, Apple keeps making things more difficult than they needs to be.

All fair points, but none of those mini PCs have M4 and M4 Pro level chips. They also have worse performance while consuming more power, and probably have loud fans and worst of all -- external power bricks!

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Some takes:

• If it has a fan, I can guarantee that you will need some kind of filter at the bottom, to minimize the amount of dust gathered, since it will be a nightmare to open it in order to properly dust it off. Ask Mac Studio owners.
• 256GB of storage is an insult and even borderline criminal abuse of their customers. Their "storage upgrades" prices are a slap on the face to their loyal customers and a reminder that they have us by the short ones.
• Headphone jack up front benefits only the people that constantly plug/unplug headphones, in a place like an agile office. The rest will treat this as a proper desktop computer, hence the jack should be at the back.
• Power button at the bottom is not that bad actually.

I know that many of us would never consider a PC, but for the ones that do see these things as tools and hate being taken advantage off thanks to our loyalty, consider the following:

• Mini PC's comes with 32 GB RAM and 1 TB NVME's for around US$700, with a copy of Winblows.
• Many are expandable with external GPUs.
• RAM and storage is expandable and user replaceable.
• Can run Linux easily.
• Easy to open and clean.

If Apple didnt r*aped us with the criminal overpriced upgrades, this Mac Mini like others systems, would be simply perfect, but I don't know, Apple keeps making things more difficult than they needs to be.

Rapidly becoming the new 16gb iPhone which they basically had to be shamed into retiring

 

[turbineseaplane]

Fan question is important to thermal throttling. I don't really like the language of "whole new thermal architecture".

Will probably order one, and if it is a throttle monster ...then it can (will) be returned.

Hopefully an all new Bluetooth antenna architecture

 

[seek3r]

Pre-ordered base model, with 10gbe as the only upgrade, should be a solid machine

 

[tunne]

As a minimalist, I don’t want more RAM than what is required. 8GB is perfectly fine, please give us the option to downgrade.

 

[marius_3d]

Where is the Power buton?

 

[klky]

Holy cow. An actual redesign. Very nice.