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Enlarge / Apple's M2 Pro Mac mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Apple hasn't updated its Mac mini desktop lineup since the beginning of 2023 , when it added M2 and M2 Pro chips and discontinued the last of the Intel models. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that the update drought will end later this year, when the mini will skip right from the M2 to the M4 , something he originally reported back in April.
But the mini will reportedly come with more than just new chips: it will also get a new, smaller design, which Gurman says will be closer in size to an Apple TV box (specifically, he says it may be a bit taller, but will have a substantially smaller footprint). The new mini could have "at least three USB-C ports," as well as a power connector and an HDMI port.
This would be Apple's first overhaul of the Mac mini's design since the original aluminum unibody version was released back in June of 2010 . That model did include a slot for a built-in SuperDrive DVD burner, something Apple dropped from later models as optical drives became less necessary, but the M2 Mac mini has the same basic design and the same footprint as that Core 2 Duo Mac mini introduced over a decade ago.
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)
As the Intel Mac era has wound down over the last couple of years, we've been painstakingly tracking the amount of software support that each outgoing model is getting. We did this to establish, with over 20 years' worth of hard data, whether Intel Mac owners were getting short shrift as Apple shifted its focus to Apple Silicon hardware and to software that leveraged Apple Silicon-exclusive capabilities.
So far, we've found that owners of Intel Macs made in the mid-to-late 2010s are definitely getting fewer major macOS updates and fewer years' worth of security updates than owners of Intel Macs made in the late 2000s and early 2010s but that these systems are still getting more generous support than old PowerPC Macs did after Apple switched to Intel's processors.
The good news with the macOS 15 Sequoia release is that Apple is dropping very few Intel Mac models this year, a much-needed pause that slows the steady acceleration of support-dropping we've seen over the last few macOS releases.
Enlarge / The M2 Pro Mac mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman thinks that Apple's M4 chips for Macs are coming sooner rather than later—possibly as early as "late this year," per a report from earlier this month . Now Gurman says Apple could completely skip the M3 generation for some Macs, most notably the Mac mini .
To be clear, Gurman doesn't have specific insider information confirming that Apple is planning to skip the M3 mini. But based on Apple's alleged late-2024-into-early-2025 timeline for the M4 mini, he believes that it's "probably safe to say" that there's not enough space on the calendar for an M3 mini to be released between now and then.
This wouldn't be the first time an Apple Silicon Mac had skipped a chip generation—the 24-inch iMac was never updated with the M2, instead jumping directly from the M1 to the M3. The Mac Pro also skipped the M1 series, leapfrogging from Intel chips to the M2.
Le 1er Macintosh a été présenté le 24 janvier 1984. Quarante ans plus tard, cette gamme d'ordinateur s'est largement imposée. Retour sur les raisons d'un triomphe.
Enlarge / Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
For most of the last year, the rumor mill has indicated that the first wave of Apple’s M3 Macs will be hitting sometime this fall —perhaps in October, a month Apple has often used for iPad and Mac announcements that can’t be crammed into its iPhone and Apple Watch-focused product events in September.
But according to reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the company won't launch those models before the end of the year . Kuo didn't share specifics, but he has sources inside Apple's manufacturing supply chains that often give him reliable information about the company's plans.
Apple's timing shifted similarly last year when M2-based MacBook Pro and Mac mini designs that were apparently intended for late 2022 launched in January 2023 instead.