Apple announced the new Mac mini on October 30. Although it has a compact housing that fits in one hand, it is equipped with the latest “M4” and “M4 Pro” processors. The price is 94,800 yen (tax included, same as below) for the M4 model, 16GB RAM. It will be released on November 8th, and pre-orders are already being accepted.
New Mac mini
The new Mac mini is a device that can be used as a Mac by connecting an external display. The main feature is the body size, which is quite small at 12.7cm square. The height is 5 cm and the weight is 670g. You can easily carry it with one hand. You can also put it in your bag and attach it to a presentation at a hotel while on a business trip.
However, it is equipped with the latest generation of Apple Silicon “M4” and “M4 Pro”. Even with the M4 model at the lower end, compared to the Mac mini with Core i7 equipment, you can get up to 13.3x more gaming performance in “World of Warcraft: The War Within” and the performance best image enhancement when restoring photos in Photomator It is said to be 33 times faster.
In addition, the M4 Pro model supports up to 64GB of integrated memory and 273GB/s of memory bandwidth. It says it has “twice the bandwidth of any AI-enabled Windows PC chip, speeding up the work of AI.” “
The interface is equipped with two USB-C ports that support USB 3 and an audio jack on the front. On the back, the M4-equipped model has three Thunderbolt 4 ports, while the M4 Pro model has three Thunderbolt 5 ports. In addition to being equipped with an HDMI terminal as standard, it is also equipped with Gigabit Ethernet, allowing high-speed communication up to 10Gb Ethernet.
In terms of external displays, the M4 model supports up to two 6K displays and up to one 5K display. The M4 Pro model supports up to three 6K displays at 60Hz, with over 60 million pixels.
Naturally, it also supports Apple’s AI generation “Apple Intelligence.” It performs various tasks such as automatically generating text, raising Siri, and generating images. In addition, Japanese support for Apple Intelligence is scheduled for 2025.
Available in one color: silver.
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