Apple introduces new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro — more powerful, capable, and versatile than ever

January 17, 2023

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Apple introduces new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro — more highly effective, succesful, and versatile than ever

Beginning at simply $599, Mac mini is even more reasonably priced

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment unveiled the new Mac mini, supercharged by M2 and the all-new M2 Pro. With the M2 chip, Mac mini is even more highly effective, succesful, and reasonably priced with a new beginning value of simply $599. The new M2 Pro chip delivers pro-level efficiency to Mac mini for the primary time, enabling customers to run high-performance workflows that had been beforehand unimaginable in such a compact design. Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro delivers sooner efficiency, even more unified reminiscence, and superior connectivity, together with assist for as much as two shows on the M2 mannequin, and as much as three shows on the M2 Pro mannequin. Paired with Studio Show and Magic equipment, alongside with the ability and ease of macOS Ventura, Mac mini supplies an exceptional desktop expertise that may take customers’ productiveness and creativity to the following stage. Prospects can order the new Mac mini fashions right this moment, with availability starting Tuesday, January 24.

“With unbelievable capabilities and a wide selection of connectivity in its compact design, Mac mini is utilized in so many locations, in so many alternative methods. At present, we’re excited to take it even additional with M2 and M2 Pro,” stated Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Worldwide Advertising. “Bringing even more efficiency and a decrease beginning value, Mac mini with M2 is an amazing worth. And for customers who want highly effective professional efficiency, Mac mini with M2 Pro is in contrast to some other desktop in its class.”

Even More Efficiency with M2 and M2 Pro

In comparison with the previous-generation Mac mini, M2 and M2 Pro deliver a sooner next-generation CPU and GPU, a lot increased reminiscence bandwidth, and a more highly effective media engine to Mac mini, delivering extraordinary efficiency and industry-leading energy effectivity. Each fashions characteristic a sophisticated thermal system for distinctive sustained efficiency.

Mac mini with M2

Mac mini with M2 options an 8-core CPU with 4 high-performance and 4 high-efficiency cores, alongside with a 10-core GPU — good for customers in search of superfast efficiency and unbelievable productiveness at a good more reasonably priced beginning value of $599. On a regular basis duties are blazing quick — from launching and multitasking between apps to shopping the net. For customers with more intensive duties, Mac mini with M2 additionally powers by even more demanding workloads. With as much as 24GB of unified reminiscence and 100GB/s of bandwidth, actions like picture enhancing in Adobe Photoshop are as much as 50 % sooner¹ than the earlier era. M2 additionally provides ProRes acceleration to Mac mini, so duties like video enhancing in Last Reduce Pro are more than twice as quick.¹ The M2 mannequin may also concurrently play as much as two streams of 8K ProRes 422 video at 30 fps, or as much as 12 streams of 4K ProRes 422 video at 30 fps. With all this efficiency, Mac mini is as much as 5x sooner than the bestselling Home windows desktop,² delivering unbelievable worth to first-time pc patrons, upgraders, and PC switchers.

When in comparison with the Mac mini with Intel Core i7,³ Mac mini with M2 presents:

• As much as 22x sooner machine studying (ML) picture upscaling efficiency in Pixelmator Pro.
• 9.8x sooner advanced timeline rendering in Last Reduce Pro.

When in comparison with the previous-generation Mac mini with M1,¹ Mac mini with M2 delivers:

• As much as 2.4x sooner ProRes transcode in Last Reduce Pro.
• As much as 50 % sooner filter and perform efficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
• As much as 35 % sooner gameplay in Resident Evil Village.

Mac mini with M2 Pro

M2 Pro brings pro-level efficiency to Mac mini for the primary time. That includes as much as a 12-core CPU with eight high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores, alongside with as much as a 19-core GPU, M2 Pro has 200GB/s of reminiscence bandwidth — double the quantity in M2 — and helps as much as 32GB of reminiscence. The following-generation Neural Engine is 40 % sooner than M1, rushing up ML duties like video evaluation and picture processing. Designed to dramatically speed up video playback and encoding whereas utilizing little or no energy, M2 Pro presents a strong media engine, which speeds by the preferred video codecs and can concurrently play as much as 5 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video at 30 fps, or as much as 23 streams of 4K ProRes 422 video at 30 fps. The M2 Pro-powered mannequin is as much as 14x sooner than the quickest Intel-based Mac mini.³

When in comparison with the 27-inch iMac with Intel Core i7 and Radeon Pro 5500 XT,⁴ Mac mini with M2 Pro presents:

• As much as 50 % sooner filter and perform efficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
• As much as 5.5x sooner panoramic merge in Adobe Lightroom Basic.
• As much as 4.4x sooner object monitoring in Last Reduce Pro.

When in comparison with the previous-generation M1 Mac mini,¹ Mac mini with M2 Pro delivers:

• As much as 2.5x sooner graphics efficiency in Affinity Picture.
• As much as 4.2x sooner ProRes transcode in Last Reduce Pro.
• As much as 2.8x sooner gameplay in Resident Evil Village.

With M2 Pro, Mac mini customers can run high-performance workflows that had been beforehand inconceivable in such a compact type issue. Musicians can produce music with extremely highly effective plug-ins and results with out lacking a beat, whereas photographers can regulate large photographs straight away. Creators can seamlessly work in multicam with a number of digital camera codecs, together with ProRes video, and avid gamers can play demanding titles in console high quality. Gaming efficiency is as much as 15x sooner than the quickest Intel-based Mac mini.³

Superior Connectivity

Mac mini continues to ship intensive connectivity with a variety of ports. The M2 mannequin options two Thunderbolt 4 ports and assist for as much as two shows. The M2 Pro mannequin consists of 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports and assist for as much as three shows. Moreover, the M2 Pro mannequin can assist one 8K show, a primary for the Mac. Each fashions characteristic two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, a Gigabit Ethernet port with a 10GB possibility, and an upgraded headphone jack to assist high-impedance headphones. For wi-fi connectivity, each new fashions additionally characteristic the newest requirements with Wi-Fi 6E⁵ for as much as 2x sooner throughput than earlier than, in addition to Bluetooth 5.3.

A Phenomenal Desktop Expertise with Studio Show and Magic Equipment

Paired with Studio Show and Magic equipment, Mac mini delivers an exceptional desktop expertise. Studio Show completes the complete Mac desktop setup expertise with its expansive 27-inch 5K Retina show, 12MP Extremely Huge digital camera with Heart Stage, studio-quality three-mic array, and six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. Prospects can add matching Magic equipment that complement the elegant design of Mac mini and Studio Show.

macOS Ventura

With macOS Ventura, Mac mini delivers even more efficiency and productiveness. Highly effective updates like Continuity Digicam deliver videoconferencing options to any Mac, together with Desk View, Heart Stage, Studio Gentle, and more. Handoff in FaceTime permits customers to begin a FaceTime name on their iPhone or iPad and fluidly go it over to their Mac, or vice versa. And instruments like Stage Supervisor routinely manage apps and home windows, so customers can focus on the duty at hand and nonetheless see all the pieces in a single look.

Messages and Mail are higher than ever, whereas Safari — the world’s quickest browser on Mac — ushers in a passwordless future with passkeys. With iCloud Shared Picture Library, customers can now create and share a separate photograph library amongst as much as six members of the family, and the new Freeform app supplies a versatile canvas that helps customers be more productive and expressive, whether or not they’re planning or brainstorming on their very own, or with others. With the ability and recognition of Apple silicon, and new developer instruments in Metallic 3, gaming on Mac has by no means been higher.

Mac mini and the Atmosphere

Mac mini is designed to reduce its affect on the setting, together with one hundred pc of the next recycled supplies: aluminum within the enclosure, uncommon earth components in all magnets, tin within the solder of the principle logic board, and gold within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards. It additionally options 35 % or more recycled plastic in a number of elements and meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity. It is freed from quite a few dangerous substances, and 96 % of the packaging is fiber based mostly, bringing Apple nearer to its aim of utterly eradicating plastic from its packaging by 2025.

At present, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be one hundred pc carbon impartial throughout your entire manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Which means each Apple gadget offered, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all the way in which to recycling and materials restoration, may have net-zero local weather affect.

Pricing and Availability

• The new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro is out there to order right this moment, January 17, on apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in 27 international locations and areas, together with the US. It would begin arriving to prospects, and in Apple Retailer areas and Apple Licensed Resellers, starting Tuesday, January 24.
• Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro might be obtainable in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, and New Zealand starting Friday, February 3.
• Mac mini with M2 begins at $599 (US) and $499 (US) for training. Extra technical specs can be found at apple.com/mac-mini.
• Mac mini with M2 Pro begins at $1,299 (US) and $1,199 (US) for training. Extra technical specs can be found at apple.com/mac-mini.
• Extra technical specs and particulars on Studio Show and Magic equipment can be found at apple.com/retailer.
• Each buyer who buys a Mac from Apple can get pleasure from a free On-line Private Session with an Apple Specialist; get their product arrange in choose shops, together with assist with knowledge switch; and obtain steering on the way to make their new Mac work the way in which they need.
• With Apple Commerce In, prospects can commerce of their present pc and get credit score towards a new Mac. Prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their gadget is value.
• AppleCare+ for Mac supplies professional technical assist and extra {hardware} protection from Apple, together with limitless incidents of unintentional injury protection, every topic to a charge.

About Apple
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1. Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation Mac mini techniques with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD.
2. Testing was carried out by Apple in November and December 2022 utilizing preproduction Mac mini techniques with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD, in addition to manufacturing Intel Core i5-based PC techniques with Intel UHD Graphics 730 and the newest model of Home windows 11 obtainable on the time of testing. The bestselling system is predicated on publicly obtainable gross sales knowledge over the prior 12 months. Efficiency checks are carried out utilizing particular pc techniques and mirror the approximate efficiency of Mac mini.
3. Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 3.2GHz 6-core Intel Core i7-based Mac mini techniques with Intel UHD Graphics 630, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD.
4. Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 3.8GHz 8-core Intel Core i7-based 27-inch iMac techniques with AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT with 8GB of GDDR6, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD.
5. Wi‑Fi 6E is just not obtainable in China mainland. It requires macOS 13.2 or later in Japan.

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