By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) A new anthropomorphic advertisement for the Mac mini shows off how the pint-sized Mac is “five by five inches of pure power and purpose.”The all new M4 Mac mini | Image credit: AppleOn Tuesday, Apple announced the New Mac mini, with the M4 chip upgrade, more USB-C, and a new smaller, sleeker design. The company also released a new ad for its tiny-but-mighty desktop Mac.The short video follows an anthropomorphic Mac mini as it goes from unboxing to making itself at home on a desk. Throughout the video, Apple highlights the Mac mini’s numerous features, including a wide array of ports, M4 and M4 Pro chips, and a new, compact size. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) The greatly reduced size of the new M4 Mac mini is fantastic, but will be trouble for colocation services, rack mounters, and folks with hubs that will no longer fit neatly under the computer.The smaller size of the M4 Mac mini (right) means certain accessories will no longer fit — image credit: AppleIt’s not as if anyone buys cases for the Mac mini the way they do for the iPhone — although cases do exist. But then nobody puts iPhones in racks to rent out remote use of them in a server farm, either.Those server farms will no longer be able to just swap out one generation of the Mac mini for another in their rack mounts. The rack system will have the Mac mini connected, so the size difference also changes where those port connectors are. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) During its Mac mini launch, Apple showed off some previously unannounced AI features coming to its Final Cut Pro video editor.Apple shows off forthcoming update to Final Cut Pro — image credit: AppleAs part of the M4 Mac mini launch video, Shloka Kini, Apple’s Mac mini product manager, revealed new AI-based features coming to Final Cut Pro. The news came in a segment comparing the device to similarly-priced PCs.”Compared to the top-selling PC desktop in its price range, the new mini is one twentieth the size,” said Kini. “And yet it’s up to an astonishing 6 times faster for workloads like video editing.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Apple has welcomed the refreshed Mac mini with an Apple Event-style video, the second of three “exciting announcements” set to occur over the week.Image Credit: AppleTuesday’s video, which runs for just over 12 minutes, is designed to give viewers a quick look at Apple’s “tinier, mightier, and even more versatile Mac mini.” Like Monday’s video, this one is also led by Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, John Ternus, with CEO Tim Cook nowhere to be found.And, like Monday’s video, a decent portion of the video is spent promoting Apple Intelligence, Apple’s “user-first” suite of artificial intelligence tools. Fitting, as Apple Intelligence has just arrived on Mac with the new macOS Sequoia 15.1 update. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple has introduced a New Mac mini with the M4 chip upgrade, more USB-C, and a new smaller, sleeker design.M4 Mac mini – Image credit: AppleAs part of its fall updates, the new Mac mini brings quite a few things to the table. For a start, the compact and entry-level Mac is smarter, thanks to its new chip.Gone are the M2 and M2 Pro chips from the previous generation, and in their place are the M4 and M4 Pro. Apple says the new M4 offers 1.8 times the CPU performance and 2.2 times the GPU performance over the M1 model. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Apple has finally released its own Thunderbolt 5 cable, promising creative professionals serious performance gains over Thunderbolt — with the right peripherals.Image Credit: AppleOn Tuesday, Apple announced the release of the new M4 Mac mini, the second of three announcements it planned on making during the week. And, just as it did on Monday with the new iMac, the company quietly released a new accessory to go along with it.Apple now is offering its own Thunderbolt 5 cable, available from Apple’s online store for $69.00. The 1-meter long, black braided cable can be used for up to 240 watts of power delivery, as well as significant data transfer speeds over its predecessors. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple has corrected the specifications of the M4 24-inch iMac, with the touted 8K120 support stricken on Tuesday morning.24-inch iMacWhen Apple launched its new 24-inch iMac with M4, it offered its usual set of specifications, including the external display support data. One day later, and Apple’s updating the specifications to correct a mistake.The originally-released specifications on Apple’s website said that the two-port model could manage one external 6K display at a resolution of 60Hz. The four-port variant was said to be able to handle two 6K 60Hz displays, or one 8K-resolution display at 120Hz. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Alongside an increase in manufacturing in India, a new report says Apple has moved some iPhone 17 development and testing to the country for the first time.Render of a possible iPhone 17 designApple’s devices are famously designed in California, but before they go on sale, they have to be manufactured and the company has specific steps it goes through. The New Product Introduction (NPI) process involves manufacturing testing, and for the first time a portion of that has been moved to India.According to The Information, Apple is using an Indian factory to develop converting the iPhone 17 prototype design into a device that can be mass produced. It is specifically the early manufacturing tests for the base iPhone 17, while the NPI for the iPhone 17 Pro models is still taking place in China. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple will be revealing the details of its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for 2024 with its financial results release and conference call on October 31. Here’s what to expect from Apple, as well as the expectations of analysts watching the company.Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple ParkApple’s quarterly earnings report will be released on Halloween, ahead of its investor and analyst conference call at 5 PM Eastern time.While the call will feature CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri discussing the financial results with a bit more color, it will be an unusual event. Maestri is stepping down as CFO at the end of 2024, making it his last investor call before Kevan Parekh takes the role. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) The newly updated Apple Magic Mouse now has a USB-C charging port, but it’s still on the bottom — and that still doesn’t matter.Since 2015, you’ve charged the Magic Mouse through a port on its baseIt’s nine years since the Magic Mouse was first redesigned to be rechargeable instead of having removable batteries. And at the time, Apple’s design and attention to detail were commended — for the sound of the mouse.From that day to this, though, the Magic Mouse design has been criticized and mocked for how apparently appalling it is that the charging port is on the bottom. It is seemingly an existential threat to mankind that you have to turn the mouse over for a minute. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
