October 29 that Apple's 2024 Mac mini was officially released, with a small volume of only 12.7 cm square, equipped with M4 / M4 Pro chip, memory starting at 16GB, up to 64GB, which will be available for pre-order from October 31 and officially on sale from November 8.

Mac mini with M4 starts at $4,499 and Education starts at $3,749.

Mac mini with M4 Pro starts at $10,999 and Education starts at $10,249.

The new Mac mini with the M4 chip delivers up to 1.8x faster CPUs and up to 2.2x faster GPUs than M1 models.

Apple says the Mac mini is 1/20th the size and up to 6x faster than best-selling PC desktop computers in the same price range.

Compared to the Intel Core i7 Mac mini, the M4 Mac mini:

Up to 2.8x more audio plug-ins are supported in Logic Pro projects.

Play World of Warcraft: Battle for the Center of the Depths with up to 13.3x faster performance.

Up to 33x faster upscaling performance with Photomator's image optimization upscaling.

Compared to Mac mini with M1, Mac mini with M4:

Run tabular calculations up to 1.7x faster with Microsoft Excel.

Flatten holograms up to 4.9x faster with Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Apple says that "M4 Pro is the world's fastest and lightning-fast single-threaded performance", with up to 14 cores integrated, including 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, while the graphics processor integrates up to 20 cores, which can deliver up to 2x the performance of the M4 graphics processor.

According to reports, the two chips are also the first time to introduce hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology to Mac mini devices. The built-in Neural Engine on the M4 Pro chip is also more than 3x faster than the M1-powered Mac. Of course, both devices also support Apple Intelligence, but the English version is currently only available in the United States for macOS Sequoia 15.1 users.

In addition, the M4 Pro chip supports up to 64GB of unified memory with a memory bandwidth of 273GB/s, which is equivalent to twice the bandwidth of any AI PC chip, effectively speeding up the processing of AI tasks.

Elsewhere, the M4 Pro chip also supports Thunderbolt 5 ports, so the new Mac mini can transfer data at speeds of up to 120 Gb/s, which is more than twice the throughput of Thunderbolt 4 ports.

Compared to a Mac mini with an i7 chip, a Mac mini with an M4 Pro chip:

Use Microsoft Excel to run spreadsheet calculations up to 4x faster.

Run scene edit detection up to 9.4x faster in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Up to 26x faster base recognition when using Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW for gene sequencing.

Compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, Mac mini with M4 Pro:

Up to 1.8x more sound plug-ins are supported in Logic Pro projects.

Use Motion to render motion graphics in RAM up to 2x faster.

Render 3D models up to 2.9x faster with Blender.

In terms of connectivity, the new Mac mini offers two USB-C ports with USB 3 support and a 3.5mm audio jack with high-impedance headphones on the front. On the back, there are three Thunderbolt ports, including Thunderbolt 4 for Mac mini with M4 chip and Thunderbolt 5 port for Mac mini with M4 Pro chip.

IT Home noticed that both models of Mac mini are equipped with Gigabit Ethernet ports as standard, and up to 10Gb Ethernet ports can be selected; There's also 1 HDMI port, no adapter required, and direct connection to a TV or HDMI display.

According to reports, Mac mini with M4 chip can drive up to 2 6K displays and 1 5K display at the same time; The M4 Pro model can drive up to three 6K displays simultaneously at a 60Hz refresh rate, outputting a total of more than 60 million pixels.

According to Apple, the new Mac mini also reached an important environmental milestone, becoming Apple's first carbon-neutral Mac device, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from production, transportation and user use by more than 80%.

Apple has launched the M4 Max chip, which is designed for data scientists, 3D artists, composers and other professionals who often face extremely heavy tasks. It is equipped with up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores.

This chip is equipped with up to 16 CPU cores, including up to 12 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores; the graphics processor has up to 40 cores.



各自选 quoted Apple's official press release and attached the relevant data as follows:

CPU performance is up to 2.2 times faster than the central processing unit of the M1 Max chip, and up to 2.5 times faster than the latest AI PC chip;

GPU speed is up to 1.9 times faster than the M1 Max chip, and up to 4 times faster than the latest AI PC chip;

M4 Max chip supports up to 128GB high-speed unified memory and up to 546GB/s memory bandwidth, which is 4 times the memory bandwidth of the latest AI PC chip

M4 Max chip enhanced media processing engine includes 2 video encoding engines and 2 ProRes accelerators, making it the best choice for professional video creators.

Like the M4 Pro chip, the M4 Max chip supports Thunderbolt 5, with data transmission speeds of up to 120Gb/s.



The AI ​​PC chip mentioned above refers to the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V tested on the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo A2VMG-014US using specific industry standard benchmarks.