The all-new Mac mini, a new iteration of Apple’s small form factor desktop computer that is powered by M4 and M4 Pro chips, delivering what is said to be 1.8x faster CPU performance and 2.2x faster GPU performance over the M1 model, is now available for pre-order starting at $599 on apple.com/store and in the Apple Store app in 28 countries and regions ahead of its release on November 8, Apple has announced. Here are some promo videos and a portion of the press release that Apple shared today, which points out how the new Mac mini starts with 16 GB of unified memory, a boost to the previous starting configuration:
When compared to the best-selling PC desktop in its price range, Mac mini is up to 6x faster at one-twentieth the size. For a wide range of users, from students to aspiring creatives and small business owners, the Mac mini with M4 is a tiny powerhouse. Mac mini with M4 features a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and now starts with 16GB of unified memory. Users will feel the performance of M4 in everything they do, from multitasking across everyday productivity apps to creative projects like video editing, music production, or writing and compiling code.
For users who want pro-level performance, Mac mini with M4 Pro features the world’s fastest CPU core5 with lightning-fast single-threaded performance. With up to 14 cores, including 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores, M4 Pro also provides phenomenal multithreaded performance. With up to 20 cores, the M4 Pro GPU is up to twice as powerful as the GPU in M4, and both chips bring hardware-accelerated ray tracing to the Mac mini for the first time. The Neural Engine in M4 Pro is also over 3x faster than in Mac mini with M1, so on-device Apple Intelligence models run at blazing speed. M4 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory and 273GB/s of memory bandwidth — twice as much bandwidth as any AI PC chip — for accelerating AI workloads. And M4 Pro supports Thunderbolt 5, which delivers up to 120 Gb/s data transfer speeds on Mac mini, and more than doubles the throughput of Thunderbolt 4.