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M4 Mac Mini to Become Apple's Smallest Ever Computer With Complete Redesign

I don’t think it’ll be as small as the ATV.

Remember when they introduced the iPod Mini? People lost their minds because it was 80% of the price of a regular iPod but had only 20% of the storage. But it was small! Turned out Apple knew that the vast majority of iPod owners used about 1GB, enough for a few hundred songs, so didn’t care about the “lack” of storage.

I bet they believe the same about the Mac Mini—that most people will plug one thing in: a monitor. Their keyboard and mouse will be wireless and they’ll be happy.
 
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Great it be smaller and less ports although $ increase. Like the last iMac upgrade.

I am still on a intel iMac 27" as been waiting 27" iMac which looks to not be coming
Looked at current Mac Mini and add a screen.
8gb soldered RAM is crap
256gb SSD a joke.
To go from 8/256 to 24/1TB is extra US$800 or 16/512gb $400.
Honestly 8gb ram over half is used by the OS.
Need at least 16GB.. Right now have 4 tabs on Safari 2.5gb memory gone
Prob could run a external SSD.. Although honestly again a joke.

Apple instead of trying to make things smaller all the time and colors :) .
What about think of modular.. You know a RAM slot a SSD slot.
My old white MacBook I still use for some old apps.. I could easily update the Hard Drive and RAM.
 
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Typing this on an M2 Pro mini I'm still entirely delighted with. It's my fourth mini, so I'm pretty much used to the form factor. Thinner I don't mind. But don't adjust the horizontal, don't adjust the vertical.
 
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Crazy to think that the perceived performance / user-experience of this TINY Mac will be pretty much on-par with the M4 Mac Pro in a massive tower (unless they redesign that too).

Also crazy to think that the tiny little AppleTV-sized Mac mini could cost a few thousand dollars all kitted out, and fits in the palm of your hand. I guess that's not special any more with iPhones and tablets costing that much. Still, seems crazy to pay so much when the bill of materials is likely not that high.
 
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Spareplanet said:
3) As a sales angle, it puts additional pressure on current M-mini owners to upgrade, by making current model look "large and clunky"
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YES!!
I believe it is all about marketing & sales. Might even try be poking at 27” iMac holdouts (combined with a Mac Studio Display) especially it [at least a variant] could be powered/interconnect via USB-C like a MacBook.

“It worked with the new iPad Pro” I can just imagine that mantra from a sales meeting filled with ‘marketing's weenies’.
 
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Time to replace my 2018 Mini and get rid of Intel.
Hopefully it will work better than my current Mini, especially online. Facebook on safari is torture
 
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Chuckeee said:
YES!!
I believe it is all about marketing & sales. Might even try be poking at 27” iMac holdouts (combined with a Mac Studio Display) especially it [at least a variant] could be powered/interconnect via USB-C like a MacBook.
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Not sure how powerful of a Mac mini could be powered by the Apple 140w usb c pd charger if that’s what you mean. Would make it very compact for sure but doubt it could keep up with a power draw from m4 pro.
 
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scottrichardson said:
Crazy to think that the perceived performance / user-experience of this TINY Mac will be pretty much on-par with the M4 Mac Pro in a massive tower (unless they redesign that too).

Also crazy to think that the tiny little AppleTV-sized Mac mini could cost a few thousand dollars all kitted out, and fits in the palm of your hand. I guess that's not special any more with iPhones and tablets costing that much. Still, seems crazy to pay so much when the bill of materials is likely not that high.
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I'll bet there will be a $3K model, by the time all the whistles and buzzers are added.

I'd recommend loss insurance for when it disappears.
 
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“Essentially an iPad Pro in a small box?”

I mean, if we ignore the fact that the entire purpose of an iPad is to let you be mobile with a screen, then sure! It has the same processor and the same number of ubiquitous ports on everything out there.

Totally like an iPad Pro.
 
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Mike82 said:
I'd love it if you could power this little machine through the usb-c-port on a monitor, like many people do with their MacBooks.
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What a great idea :) that would fit really well with the portability of a smaller Mac mini. Almost makes me wish they build it was a small internal battery so you could sleep it and effectively hot-swap monitors
 
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I say bring it back as 'Mac: M4 Cube.'
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Remember...Power Mac G4 Cube??

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It's a desktop mac, stop trying to shrink it and make it smaller. Give it enough size, add a decent heatsink, put a fan in it. So it can run at full capacity without throttling and have a long life. Who cares about the size for a desktop mac! so stupid apple.. I thought we are done with the jony-***-everything-just-make-it-small-thin era...
 
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