Apple’s Mac mini M4 Pro offers Mac Studio power in a tiny package

With M4 and M4 Professional, the brand new Mac mini brings unimaginable efficiency and connectivity in a design that’s sufficiently small to slot in your hand.

Apple in October unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Professional chips, and redesigned round Apple silicon to pack an unimaginable quantity of efficiency into a good smaller type of simply 5 by 5 inches. With M4, Mac mini delivers as much as 1.8x sooner CPU efficiency and a pair of.2x sooner GPU efficiency over the M1 mannequin. With M4 Professional (Mac mini with M4 Pro, 12‑core CPU and 16‑core GPU, 24GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD: $1,349 via Amazon), it takes the superior applied sciences in M4 and scales them as much as deal with much more demanding workloads. For extra handy connectivity, it options back and front ports, and for the primary time consists of Thunderbolt 5 for sooner information switch speeds on the M4 Professional mannequin.

Mike Wuerthele for AppleInsider:

The M4 Professional Mac mini is presumably the perfect deal in computing in late 2024, boasting a powerful quantity of energy for execs that rivals the Mac Studio and Mac Professional in a tiny package deal.

M4 Professional Mac mini evaluation – Execs

• About M2 Mac Studio Energy, for half the worth
• Extra USB-C and extra USB total than the earlier design
• Thunderbolt 5 will likely be amazingly quick, however…

M4 Professional Mac mini evaluation – Cons
• Thunderbolt 5 equipment aren’t actually transport but, and can take effectively into 2025 to proliferate
• Exorbitant SSD and RAM improve pricing

Score: 5 out of 5


MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s M4 and M4 Professional Mac mini fashions are additionally constructed for Apple Intelligence and really effectively future-proofed.


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