Question M4 Mac Mini announced

[lopri]

Mac mini

The new, smaller Mac mini with the M4 or M4 Pro chip. Built for Apple Intelligence. Now with front and back ports. And the first carbon neutral Mac.

www.apple.com

Looking to finally upgrade my M1 Mini. It has become quite sluggish. The new one offers an 10 Gbe ethernet option, which is a nice touch.

 

[gdansk]

M1 Mini. It has become quite sluggish

Really?

 

[Eug]

Looking to finally upgrade my M1 Mini. It has become quite sluggish. The new one offers an 10 Gbe ethernet option, which is a nice touch.

The 10 Gbps Ethernet option has been there since M1.

How is yours sluggish? What are your specs, what do you do with it, and how full is your SSD? Mine isn't sluggish but I have 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD, with less than 200 GB used. If I test it side by side against my M4 iPad Pro, the M1 does occasionally feel a bit slower than the M4, but it's like M1 is very fast and M4 is super fast.

Anyhow, I ordered an M4 with 24 GB RAM and 10 Gbps Ethernet. I don't need it, but I just want it.

 

[manly]

So brave.

Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

Don't expect to fit the new M4 Mac mini into too tight a space because you're going to have to tip it to reach underneath every time you need to switch it on.

appleinsider.com

(Kudos for making 16GB RAM standard on all new Macs, after long insisting that 8GB was plenty.)

 

[Eug]

(Kudos for making 16GB RAM standard on all new Macs, after long insisting that 8GB was plenty.)

Even better, they bumped up the old M2 and M3 MacBook Airs to 16 GB RAM too. It's about time.