Oct. 29 (Portaltic/EP) –
Apple has introduced the new Mac mini, which features a more compact body than the previous model and is powered by the brand’s M4 and M4 Pro processors, to power the functions of the Apple Intelligence system.
The new Mac mini reduces its size compared to its predecessor, with a design of just 12.7cm on a side. This compact form factor is made possible by the energy efficiency of Apple chips and a thermal architecture that channels air through the different levels of the system and flows through the base.
This computer is available with the M4 chip, which incorporates a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU and unified memory starting at 16GB. As the company has detailed, the performance speed of the CPU is up to 1.8 times faster than in the model with M1, and the GPU is 2.2 times faster, as Apple indicated in a press release.
But there is also a Mac mini model with an M4 Pro chip, designed to handle more demanding workloads. It has up to 14 cores, including ten performance cores and four efficiency cores, as well as up to 20 GPU cores and up to 64GB of unified memory. It is compatible with Thunderbolt 5, which offers data transfers up to 120 Gb/s and provides more than twice the performance of Thunderbolt 4.
Both chips feature hardware-accelerated ray tracing, while the Neural Engine on the M4 Pro chip is more than three times faster than on the Mac mini with M1, to power Apple Intelligence models.
Apple has also highlighted that this Mac mini is the first carbon-neutral Mac. It is made up of more than 50 percent recycled materials, including 100 percent recycled aluminum in the case, 100 percent recycled gold in all Apple printed circuit boards, and 100 percent recycled rare earths in all magnets. Likewise, one hundred percent of the electricity used to manufacture the Mac mini is renewable energy.
The Mac mini with M4 can be found from 719 for the variant with the M4 chip, and from 1,669 euros for the one that integrates the M4 Pro chip. It will be available from November 8, in 28 countries and regions, including Spain.
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