Mac Mini With M4 Pro Features Three Thunderbolt 5 Ports

[tazinlwfl]

3 x USB4/TB5 on rear
2 x USB3 on front
Right?

 

[jayhawk2112]

So this will support three 5k monitors over thunderbolt?

 

[iSandrotto]

Thunderbolt 5 should easily be able to support a +5k display at 120Hz. Wonder why there is no mention of it in the tech specs? Do they reserve that for the M4 Max/Ultra?
In any case, good news for an updated Studio Display with ProMotion next year alongside the M4 Studio.

 

[cjsuk]

Pre-ordered! base M4 Pro. That's going to bloody scream.

 

[dmr727]

Promotion Studio display confirmed.

::wallet whimpers::

 

[tockie]

Does it support 8K 120Hz display(s)? I can't find it in the specs.

it supports two 8k@60Hz as of the thunderbolt 5 spec, that sounds like one 8k@120Hz to me

 

[iFunk]

Love my M1 Mac mini and I will be upgrading. I'm glad they kept the audio port which I do use with my plug in headphones!

 

[LeeW]

Ok, I will say it. That’s cheap with 16gb ram.

 

[Rychiar]

this is an amazing and unexpected update.. and then they cheap out and don't add wifi 7

 

[con2apple]

So in actuality it's only 3 thunderbolt ports

3x Thunderbolt 5 for M4 Pro.
Means 5K and 6K 120 Hz Display with one Cable

🤩

 

[CraigsDog]

What version of HDMI???m I can´t believe they don´t specify that.

2.1

 

[turbineseaplane]

2.1

Where did you source that?
I can't find it

 

[mdurech]

does it support 2-lg 5k display at 60hz and 1-4k display at 120hz?

 

[Admiral]

Nice! I wish I had something useful to transfer at that speed

I do. I just bought a 40" 5K2K monitor with a 120Hz refresh rate. That would gobble up nearly all bandwidth on Thunderbolt 4, but Thunderbolt 5 will have some headroom. I bought this monitor expecting to settle for 60Hz for a while, but the future is here today.

iMac was apparently introduced with TB4 ports, and I was surprised by that. This is very good news.

This Mac mini with M4 Pro handily outperforms my Mac Studio M2 Max. I expect the refreshed Mac Studio with M4 Max/Ultra to be announced at the end of this week — and those CPUs promise to be absolutely amazing.

 

[pappkristof]

it supports two 8k@60Hz as of the thunderbolt 5 spec, that sounds like one 8k@120Hz to me

Sounds logical, but not sure that's how it works. DisplayPort 2.1 should support 8K@120Hz though.

 

[applegeek2024]

my new plex server. excellent.. ordered and hopefully it runs awesome

 

[MrWeenus]

I see that no one has noticed this or asked about it - but how the **** are you supposed to turn it on? I do not see any power buttons?

omg later edit - it's underneath. wtf

 

[CraigsDog]

I see that no one has noticed this or asked about it - but how the **** are you supposed to turn it on? I do not see any power buttons?

The power button is on the bottom

 

[turbineseaplane]

my new plex server. excellent.. ordered and hopefully it runs awesome

Why not a preowned M1 or M2 for Plex?

These are MASSIVE overkill for Plex

It's using a bazooka to kill an ant

 

[falkon-engine]

120 Gb/sec is not double TB4; it is triple.

 

[CraigsDog]

does it support 2-lg 5k display at 60hz and 1-4k display at 120hz?

If you run 3 displays on the base model, they are limited to 60hz each. Not sure about the Pro model.

 

[0134168]

The new Mac mini looks really compelling. I want to justify a need to buy one. 😆

You NEED it!

 

[Zdigital2015]

This makes me wonder if the Studio is even going to continue to be a "thing"

It will be…there are users that want an M4 Max/M4 Ultra desktop. We still have yet to see the M4 Max until tomorrow and a MacBook Pro still cannot unleash every bit of power that a Mac Studio can.

 

[northernmunky]

What does Apple chip labs want with these old crappy PC motherboards then eh?

 

[asdfjkl;]

Still 256gb base sadly. At least Thunderbolt 5 should make external boot drives faster than ever.

Hoping OWC updates OWC MiniStack STX to Thunderbolt 5. TB 5 will have enough bandwidth to support a fast SSD boot drive plus additional IO. The current MiniStack STX is TB 4 and to make everything work the SSD is limited to a single PCIe lane which constricts SSD speeds considerably.