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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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I dont think you'll see annoucement till later on in the day for the UK. Its normally evening time to match up with midday US times.
I guess that subscribing to RSS feed of Apple Newsroom in any feed reader of yours is much more healthier solution. You’ll be prompted at the moment Apple will publish any new thing there.
Normal time is right now for these kind of announcements. Also the tweet from Greg said Monday morning specifically.
edit: but the US is still in summertime, so expect the press release at 2pm UK instead of the normal 1pm UK.
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Given we are expecting more than one announcement this week, why are you sure the mini will be today?
Off topic, but really miss RSS support in Safari.You mean, RSS aka Really Simple Sindication (wiki link)— like for real?
Good point, as I was thinking about the MacBook Air at the time.
In the case of the Mac mini, you can just substitute M2 for M3. IOW, I think the M4 16 GB Mac mini would be cheaper than M2 16 GB but more expensive than M2 8 GB. So, I think they will keep M2 around for a cheaper 8 GB entry level model.
so it looks ram goes 16-24-32, which means mini will be 16 and mini pro 24? also likely to have WIFI6E and TB4
also same price on imac is good news!
also same price on imac is good news!
Makes sense.
Next in line will probably be MBPs since they'll have to launch the Pro and Max chips with that, which will need a bigger splash.
Yeah, and an 8CPU/8GPU core entry-level M4 chip.
Ram upgrades are still a ridiculous $200-per-8GB, but at least the base is now a half-decent 16GB with no obvious price increase. Storage still the same silly prices...
More subtle detail: the 10 core models have "Four Thunderbolt 4 ports" confirming (a) the M4 has 4 TB/USB4 controllers and (b) it can support at least three screens in total (since the iMac has one internal) - since TB4 branding requires 2 displays to be supported via Thunderbolt.
Interesting wrinkle, though - the base 8/8 core model still says "2 Thunderbolt/USB4 ports" so it presumably doesn't support two extra displays... not that you'd get the binned chip if you wanted to run multiple displays...
Or not. While the 8 GB upgrade price is still $200, the 16 GB M4 iMac is priced the same as 8 GB M3 iMac. They did NOT increase the price.
For the record, here is current Mac mini pricing:
USA:
France:
UK:
Canada:
However, the most important to me is Canadian education pricing:
P.S. Until today, I never realized that the US and Canadian sites spelled "customize/customise" differently.
Yeah, so this is what I was worried about. The new iMac is indeed 16gb but the upgrade path remains the same. +8gb =$250CAD. So most likely Apple will screw us on the Mini Pro and it will again be +$500CAD for upgrade to 32GB. Pure insanity to pay this.
On the other hand, Apple could be 'nice' and do base ram as 24gb on the Mini Pro so you could then upgrade to 32gb for 'only' $250CAD.
On the other hand, Apple could be 'nice' and do base ram as 24gb on the Mini Pro so you could then upgrade to 32gb for 'only' $250CAD.
Reckon Mini Pro will be 18Gb and 36Gb option for $400 US
If they do a Mini Pro with base 24Gb for the price of the current M2 Pro I'll be on it like a seagull on chips.
Yeah, 24gb base on the mini pro would be great start otherwise Apple just made the mini pro $250 more expensive. (as the base model would get $250CAD 8gb bump without the price increase)
So far the rumours are that the base M4 Mac mini only has 3 USB-C ports, so if true, they would likely all be at the back.
while possible i don't think they will market the ram of a pro machine as base plus 2gb, seems to close, 24 makes more sense imho
Yes, but the big news is that there was no price increase to support 16gb base memory. We can now expect the same for the M4 Mini. All we will need to know now is how small it is and what base memory will be configured for Pro version.It's the iMac today
And the number and variety of ports. I’m afraid that could be a pinch point.