Yesterday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman again noted that the Mac mini will be among the new hardware announced during the March event.

It’s also quite likely that the updated Mac mini will feature a more compact design, given that there was a lot of room left when swapping out the Intel guts for Apple silicon. This sounds similar to the M1-powered iMac, indicating that the 2022 Mac mini may take strong cues from Apple’s popular all-in-one machine. Subscribe to 9to5mac on YouTube for more videosĪ further August 2021 report by Bloomberg noted that the new Mac mini would feature an updated design and reiterated the claim about more ports than the current-generation model.Īdditional rumors note that the new Mac mini will feature a new industrial design featuring an external chassis with a plexiglass-like reflective surface on top. Video: Back to the Mac – My Mac mini wish list

According to Bloomberg’s report, the updated Mac mini would also feature four physical Thunderbolt ports. The report noted that the Mac mini would feature the same Apple Silicon with 10-core CPU as the MacBook Pro, along with build-to-order options for up to 64GB of unified memory, and a GPU featuring either 16 or 32 graphics cores. One of those Macs will likely be a refreshed Mac mini, the first new machine in the lineup since November 2020’s M1 model.īack in May 2021, Bloomberg reported that a new high-end Mac mini was in the works. It’s been rumored that Apple will host an event on March 8 where it will possibly announce three new Macs. I’ll also take a look at how current Intel Mac mini owners can breathe new life into their existing machines. In it, I share my wishlist of features I’d like to see in the rumored Mac mini refresh and explore some of the advantages that the Intel Mac mini currently has over the version donning Apple Silicon. Watch my latest Back to the Mac episode as I explore the state of the Mac mini from both an Intel and Apple Silicon perspective.

Although I use the 16-inch MacBook Pro day-to-day, the M1 Mac mini remains a desktop staple for me.īut the M1 Mac, like all M1-powered machines, leaves room for improvement in important areas like storage, memory, and physical I/O. Like all Apple Silicon-powered Macs, it’s notably faster, runs quieter, and stays cooler than its Intel-powered predecessor.

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