Apple today announced the first Mac mini update in nearly two years. The new Mac mini keeps the same compact design, but delivers a major performance boost with the new M6 and M5 Pro configurations.
Head below for all the details. The previous generation Mac mini was powered by the M4 and M4 Pro chips. Apple has taken a different strategy this time, opting to use the all-new M6 chip for the base configuration. The M6 chip in Mac mini is Apple’s first 2nm processor. Apple touts that it offers “the world’s fastest single-threaded performance.
It features a 12-core CPU, which is two more cores than M4 and M5. M6 is Apple’s first chip to use all three of its CPU core types: 2 super cores, 4 performance cores, and 6 efficiency cores. Super cores prioritize maximum single-threaded performance, performance cores are optimized for multithreaded workloads, and efficiency cores handle lighter and background tasks Apple says that combination delivers up to 40% faster multithreaded performance than M4. M6 also has the new dual 16-core Neural Engine, which Apple says is up to 2x faster than the previous generation. The new Mac mini is available for pre-order today and will start arriving for customers on September 22. Pricing starts at $899 for the base configuration with the M6 chip, 256GB of storage, and 16GB of unified memory. Mac mini with M5 Pro starts at $1,699.
The next tier, meanwhile, is powered by the M5 Pro, which first debuted in the MacBook Pro earlier this year. The new Mac mini lineup is available to pre-order today .
