Apple's new Mac Mini gets M1 chip
Mac Mini delivers the Mac desktop experience in an incredibly small form factor.
Our users love its outstanding performance, array of connectivity and signature design, and most of all, they love its versatility.
It's why you'll find Mac minis everywhere from home offices to home theaters, studios to render farms.
Today M1 comes to Mac Mini, bringing a seismic shift in what an ultra compact desktop can do with the 8 core CPU and M1, Mac Mini delivers up to three times faster CPU performance than the previous Quad Core version.
This is a monumental leap in CPU performance for Mac Mini, so if you're a developer compiling a million lines and X code or musician using logic Pro to take music production to a whole new level performance.
Never skips a beat and the 8 core GPU gives them mini a gigantic sixfold increase in graphics performance.
This enables you to do things you wouldn't have dreamed of before on the Mac mini, like designing a graphics intensive game in Unity or when the work is done cranking up the graphics settings while playing a great game like Baldurs Gate 3. The Mini has an outrageous amount of performance in such a compact design.
In fact, if you compare Mac mini to the top selling PC desktop in its price range, the Mini is just one 10th the size, and yet it's up to five times faster.
Mac Mini just blows the competition away.
And there's more with them, one bringing the neural engine to Mac mini machine learning workloads take a quantum leap forward with up to 15 times faster ML performance than the previous generation.
This means the new Mac Mini will supercharge innovative features that are powered by Emily, like magically increasing the resolution of a photo in Pixelmator Pro giving it more sharpness and detail.
It also makes Mac Mini a great machine for developers, scientists and engineers utilizing deep learning technologies like tensor flow or create Emil which are now accelerated by M1.
And with the Mac minis advanced Thermal Design M1 is unleashed easilly, sustaining its breakthrough performance while the Mini stays cool and quiet.
When it comes to connectivity, there's an array of IO, including two USB C ports that now support both Thunderbolt and USB for to connect a wide range of peripherals, including the pro display XDR at a full 6K resolution with the M1 chip and Big Sur are most versatile Mac packs.
A staggering amount of performance.
An incredible new features, and even with all of its power and capability.
Mac Mini now starts at just 699.
That's 100$ lower than the previous generation.
No other desktop combines such breathtaking performance with such an affordable price.
So that's the mighty knew Mac mini powered by the M1 ship.
It takes an enormous jump in performance with a 3 times faster CPU, six times faster GPU, and the neural Engin that boosts Emil performance up to 15 times the new Mac Mini is a phenomenal desktop that's far more versatile and far more capable than ever.
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