B&H Photo has product pages for an M2 Mac Mini and M1 Pro Mac Mini Tower

ChromeCloud said:
What exactly would stop Apple from selling the new AS Mac Pro, let's say, one or two months from now?

Even if they still had to start manufacturing them, it's such a low volume product that meeting the market demand shouldn't be such a big deal.

Also I'd like to add that nothing prevents B&H or any other retailer from taking reservations months ahead of release.
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coming soon is not 2-3 months away...history says otherwise. But of course you can dream :) I dont see buying the Mac pro until September . Next time B&H will take reservations with years ahead of release
Hey why they dont offer the VR headset reservations ?
 
ChromeCloud said:
M1 Pro with 8GB of RAM? Seems unlikely.
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I thought the same. For an hypothetical M2 I could believe it, but for an M1 Pro the base minimum should be (and has been on all different devices) 16GB or memory.

I don’t know, it makes sense to release an M2 and an M1 Pro on the other hand. That way, you start production of M2 at the same time you keep the production of the scalable M1 Pro-Max with the different GPU configurations.

Makes sense, but it saddens me because I really wanted the next gen M2 Pro. I guess I’ll have to wait for the M2 Pro or even M3 Pro.
 
Why would there be an M1 Pro Mac mini when Apple already offers the Mac Studio which is basically that? Doesn't make sense to me. This is probably an error.
 
redheeler said:
Why would there be an M1 Pro Mac mini when Apple already offers the Mac Studio which is basically that? Doesn't make sense to me. This is probably an error.
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Mac Studio starts at $2,000 with an M1 Max. An M1 Pro mini would slot between this and the much cheaper vanilla M1, perhaps around $1,200. Honestly, I reckon an M1 mini would be mega popular.
 
ChromeCloud said:
False. I just checked and the placeholder product page was actually created yesterday and not "before the last event".

As you can see below, that page was first indexed by Google just yesterday:

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Before yesterday, no results:
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Also I checked the website history and this wouldn't be the first time that some product is leaked before the official announcement (happened with phones and cameras from other brands in the past).
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First, the person who tweeted that works at B&H (once again, check the bio). I'll take their word regarding the internal workings of how stuff gets published at B&H over yours any day.

Even then, as someone who's used Google a time or several hundred for research in a professional capacity, I can tell you from experience that the date shown by Google often doesn't reflect the date a webpage was published or last modified, and those two dates often aren't the same for a given page. In this case, he suggests that those entries were last modified sometime before the March event and set to publish in June.

Based on what that B&H employee tweeted out, they created some entries for products they expected at the March event under the assumption that those entries would be either modified and published or deleted as needed prior to the scheduled publication date in June. But humans are…humans, and sometimes humans forget things — they presumably forgot to delete these two entries. It happens.

The "Mac Mini Tower M1P" is almost definitely a reference to a nonexistent Mac Studio with an M1 Pro SoC — as we now know, it's M1 Max and M1 Ultra only. Prior to the announcement, some expected configurations to include M1 Pro, which of course never materialized. Along those lines, they presumably also had a "Mac Mini Tower M1M" entry which became this.
 
russell_314 said:
Maybe an add on for the mini? Like if you have the new mini you can buy the tower that has more ports and maybe a second M1 chip?
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Going 90s huh? Lets do it Apple!
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jonblatho said:
The "Mac Mini Tower M1P" is almost definitely a reference to a nonexistent Mac Studio with an M1 Pro SoC
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This wouldn't make any sense from a scale of economics. The heat sink on the Studio already has more than enough thermal headroom for a Max SoC; it would be absolutely overkill for a Pro.

A mini enclosure would make more sense given that, in its current form, the fan and heat sink are overkill even for the M1. Relatively speaking, the M1 die area isn't much larger than a vanilla M1 and could easily be put into a mini without thermal constraint.
 
russell_314 said:
Maybe an add on for the mini? Like if you have the new mini you can buy the tower that has more ports and maybe a second M1 chip?
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An add-on module or any kind of modularity of stacking Macs or modules onto Macs in any way, shape or form is probably the least likely thing we'll ever see from Apple.

A cornerstone of Apple's product marketing philosophy is hyper aggressive product segmentation, sparing no costs on making sure you're always keenly aware of how much more you get if you just spend a few hundred dollars more instead of going with a less costly option.

For every bit the iPhone SE screams "I'm the budget option" the iPhones Pro yell "I'm expensive and cutting edge."

Apple giving consumers options to upgrade any spec of a Mac with add on modules post purchase is more unlikely than seeing full under-display Face ID and USB-C in iPhones this year.
 
Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
This wouldn't make any sense from a scale of economics. The heat sink on the Studio already has more than enough thermal headroom for a Max SoC; it would be absolutely overkill for a Pro.

A mini enclosure would make more sense given that, in its current form, the fan and heat sink are overkill even for the M1. Relatively speaking, the M1 die area isn't much larger than a vanilla M1 and could easily be put into a mini without thermal constraint.
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Which is why it's nonexistent. I'm referring to the expectation by some prior to the event — before we formally knew anything about Mac Studio — that there'd be a higher-end Mac mini with M1 Pro, but that gap remains unfilled today.
 
ApplesAreSweet&Sour said:
An add-on module or any kind of modularity of stacking Macs or modules onto Macs in any way, shape or form is probably the least likely thing we'll ever see from Apple.
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I'm guessing you don't know about the Mac Pro? IMO it's outdated now but very modular.


ApplesAreSweet&Sour said:
A cornerstone of Apple's product marketing philosophy is hyper aggressive product segmentation, sparing no costs on making sure you're always keenly aware of how much more you get if you just spend a few hundred dollars more instead of going with a less costly option.

For every bit the iPhone SE screams "I'm the budget option" the iPhones Pro yell "I'm expensive and cutting edge."
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I think it's just you (and maybe a few others) that's hearing those voices. I know quite a few people who don't feel compeled to buy the most expensive option. My brother is a great example. He had an iPhone 6 for years and recently got the SE2 in base storage configuration and will keep that for at least four years. He could easily afford the latest 13 Pro Max but just not interested. Not everyone needs or even wants cutting edge. Of course I have the 13 PM but that's because I like it and maybe I hear the voices 😉

ApplesAreSweet&Sour said:
Apple giving consumers options to upgrade any spec of a Mac with add on modules post purchase is more unlikely than seeing full under-display Face ID and USB-C in iPhones this year.
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You haven't heard the USB-C rumors? They're supposed to be going to USB-C but with an ugly android style Swiss cheese hole camera 🤮
 
R3k said:
Meanwhile they have no Mac Studio’s in stock.
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They're selling faster than they can make them. I don't think Apple would understock just for a new product announcement. They have cut stock when they were replacing things but I don't see the Studio being replaced just yet.
 
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If this is true, it just bugs me that apple releases their chips from bottom up. Instead of top down. If it were me I’d update and showcase my best and then release lower models of everything from there.
 
turbineseaplane said:
Because it's very Apple to screw folks, yet again, with base 8GB of RAM to drive component upgrade profits at time of sale.
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Not at all. I'm doing just fine with 8GB on my M1 Mini and M1 MBA and so are many other users. I'd rather they keep the base price down for people who don't need 16GB+ RAM and those who need/want it can pay for it.
 
ZERO chance B&H has any knowledge directly from Apple regarding unannounced hardware.

Even the worlds biggest carriers/iPhone sellers don’t know about Apple’s hardware plans until the second it’s announced via public channels. Not even 24 hours heads up.
 
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