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Aside from the new MacBook Air, another Mac product that will carry the newly introduced Apple M1 chip is the Mac mini. The announcement of the compact desktop machine took us by surprise as Apple’s One More Thing event last night was originally thought to be a MacBook affair.
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However, the new Apple M1 chip has certainly injected new life into the machine, as the last time the Mac mini received any hardware updates was in 2018. According to Apple, these are some of the performance improvements that the new SoC will be able to do. provide. via Mac mini:
Compile code in Xcode up to 3x faster.
Play graphics-intensive games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider with frame rates up to 4x higher.
Generate a complex timeline in Final Cut Pro up to 6 times faster.
Use up to 3x more plugins in real time in Logic Pro.
Increase the resolution of a photo in Pixelmator Pro up to 15 times faster.
Use ML frameworks like TensorFlow or Create ML, accelerated by the M1 chip.
Additionally, the Mac mini can now also support up to a 6K display and a 4K display at the same time. However, the M1-based model has fewer Thunderbolt ports than its Intel-based predecessor at just two ports, although they do support the newer USB 4 standard.
Not only that, the M1-based Mac mini also supports only up to 16GB of RAM compared to the previous Intel-based model that goes up to 64GB, though it can still fit the new model with a solid-state drive up to 2TB. . That being said, the M1 chip uses a unified memory architecture, although it is different from the standard DDR4 architecture on the Intel-based Mac mini.
Along with support for the newer Wi-Fi 6 standard, the M1 chip inside the Mac mini also comes standard with 8-core GPUs. According to the Apple Malaysia website, the compact desktop machine is obtainable with a starting price of RM 2999 for the 256GB SSD variant, while the 512GB variant starts at RM 3799 instead.
However, it is not yet available for purchase at this time. We’ll keep you posted once Apple updates the availability status, so stay tuned.
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