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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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The iMac is +£100 here in the UK despsite the £ being much stronger than when the M3 iMac was introduced, so it’s effectively a £150-200 price increase. Thank, Apple. Forever screwing over us Europeans.
My excitement for the M4 mini has reduced significantly. At least the 9800X3D and RTX 5090 aren’t far away
Did anybody else notice that the 8 core version is 4/4 and the 10 core is 4/6 for P/E? That just seems rather bizarre. Another thing makes me wonder if the new Mini M4 base model will have only 2 USB-C ports only and be wifi only. That appears to be how the new iMac is and if you compare Apples to Apples...
Imagine wifi only on a desktop computer. I don’t think any company would do that aside from Apple, so… good chance it will happen. They will remove the 3.5mm port soon as well, just you wait.
That's more a right of passage for Brits given Rip off Britain is still a thing.
Wonder what the M4 Pro upgrade will be, 12 core CPU and 19 core GPU again?
I am hoping for M4 Pro, 32Gb and 1Tb for £1999
I am hoping for M4 Pro, 32Gb and 1Tb for £1999
Hope you are right. But the mini update also consists of a very visible design update and there might still be the possibility that Apple could use that to justify a price increase.
Or reduce the price because it is much less expensive to manufacture.
(I'm in training as a comedian...)
Hasn't the price actually come down by £100 per SKU? Here's the original M3 iMac review from Tech Radar last year that shows the 3 SKUs as £1399, £1599, and £1799? Remember that third party retailers may have been given permission to reduce prices since (Argos show an M3 with 8 core GPU for £1399). The M1 lingered for £1249 when the M3 was current but this has been replaced by a binned M4 as the base model.The iMac is +£100 here in the UK despsite the £ being much stronger than when the M3 iMac was introduced, so it’s effectively a £150-200 price increase. Thank, Apple. Forever screwing over us Europeans.
My excitement for the M4 mini has reduced significantly. At least the 9800X3D and RTX 5090 aren’t far away
The pre-order specs for the M4 iMac shows the 3 SKUs priced at £1299, £1499, and £1699 (with a 24Gb top SKU sporting 24Gb RAM for £1899).
And for that you obviously get M4 across the board and 16Gb RAM in the base 3 SKUs. If you pick an unbinned model you get the 4 thunderbolt ports (M3 model only got 2 Thunderbolt ports plus 2 USB-C)
The port setup will be interesting when we get to see the Mini though - to see how the specs coincide when mapped onto likely mini skus. Remember the mini m1 and m2 never got binned chips whereas the iMac 24 did.
If the iMac gets a choice of 2 or 4 thunderbolt ports. How does that map onto the rumoured 3 or 5 usb-c ports for a mini? Potentially the loss of 2 usb-a ports might be mapped onto 1 merged usb-c port with a combined 10mb/s bandwidth?
And if we're about to get a binned M4 with 3 USB-C ports could UK users be about to get an even cheaper starting price?
Could even get rebadged and called a Mac Nano - at which point all bets are off because Apple would not be comparing with previous generation any more.
Having said that, smaller packaging could be there to reduce cost of materials and maybe shipping (unless they're going for a heavier heat sink)
A totally new Mac could also hand wave away any perceived reduction in ports or bandwidth over the M2 Mini - the 3 or 5 USB-C ports option suggests that Apple could be maintaining a low starting price by using binned chips for the first time in the Mini (or for the first time in the Nano).
16Gb of RAM for the price of 8Gb (on top of a price cut in the UK) is encouraging but let's see how the MacBook Pros get priced up if they are indeed coming tomorrow.
It would be hilarious if the Mac mini m4 was a mini Mac Pro trash can
So what does the new iMac tell us about the Mac mini m4?
Base model will be 16gb/256 , what else ?
Base model will be 16gb/256 , what else ?
If the above is indeed accurate, the new M4 Mac Mini FAR outspecs the new M4 iMac???
Mini apparently has (potentially):
-More RAM than iMac
-More storage than iMac
-More cores than iMac
Can that be right???
Mini apparently has (potentially):
-More RAM than iMac
-More storage than iMac
-More cores than iMac
Can that be right???
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M4 Pro Mac mini. There is no M4 Pro iMac.
Indeed, I did see that.
Too bad the “leak” doesn’t list base-level specs for the Mini, instead of just lumping the M4 and M4 Pro in the same column.
i think thats to some degree clear. The base mini:
16/256, 4+4,
the connections are not clear, though.
probably even just 2 TB4 ports. Or 2 TB4, 2 USB-C. How do we know apple ?
If the images for the mini and the Studio are in-scale in that screenshot, then the dimensions are:
33 x 15 pixels vs 51 x 27 pixels
that translates into
127 x 53 mm vs 197 x 95 mm
Not quite Apple TV size yet but close. Also height is higher than 1U rack, kind of bad news I guess. Wonder how the M4 Pro can cool itself inside of that chassis, 53mm is not much room for stacked fan + heatsink.
33 x 15 pixels vs 51 x 27 pixels
that translates into
127 x 53 mm vs 197 x 95 mm
Not quite Apple TV size yet but close. Also height is higher than 1U rack, kind of bad news I guess. Wonder how the M4 Pro can cool itself inside of that chassis, 53mm is not much room for stacked fan + heatsink.