Wesley Hilliard
An Amazon listing for the 24-inch iMac contained a now-removed comparison chart that included Apple's unannounced smaller Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro.
Apple's week of announcements does a great job keeping its new products in the news cycle for longer, but the strategy may have backfired. A comparison chart on Amazon showed the unreleased Mac mini and some of its specs, but has since been removed.
The comparison chart was discovered by MacRumors on Amazon's 24-inch iMac listing. It shows a small thumbnail of what looks like a miniature Mac Studio and can be configured with the M4 and M4 Pro.
The listed specs include an up to 14-core CPU, up to 20-core GPU, up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 8TB of storage. Apple is only offering the new Mac mini in silver.
The tiny image for the Mac mini shows a Mac Studio-like enclosure that's a bit taller by proportion to its length than the Mac mini is, but it is clearly much smaller too. Previous rumors suggested the device could be closer to the size of an Apple TV set-top box.
Dots can be seen on the front, which may indicate two USB ports and an indicator light. However, there isn't a spot for the SD card slot present on the Mac Studio.
Apple's week of announcements is expected to continue Tuesday with the updated MacBook Pros with M4 and M4 Pro. The redesigned Mac mini is expected to be revealed on Wednesday.
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10 Comments
My late 2012 Mini is getting long in the tooth. The new smaller and much more powerful Mini will do nicely thank you.
If these pictures are to scale, the new Mac mini will be slightly larger than the AppleTV as we know it by now. Something around 5" in width and 2" in height.
Wow, 14 cpu cores! Likely 8 performance and 6 efficiency. It will be interesting to compare to the m1 ultra on the geekbench sub-scores.
I love that new form factor! And the extra processing power. I'm finally ready to switch from my long-in-the-tooth Hackintosh back to a real Mac, and the Mini looks like it's the way to go.
The Studio looks sad on this graph, being M2 series.