The improved chip that debuted six months ago wins another customer and brings with it a $100 discount on the recommended base price – but if you want maximum performance you can reach a terrible price level
Alongside the MacBook Pro mobile computers, the desktop Mac Mini also received its own upgrade after over two and a half years since its fifth incarnation adopted Apple’s personal chips – and here it seems that the technological upgrade is a little more significant, when in addition there is a welcome reduction of $100 in the price the basis
The 2023 Mac Mini retains the silver casing of the 2020 version and almost identical dimensions, but instead of the Apple M1 processor, users will now be able to choose between the Apple M2 and the beefed-up Apple M2 Pro, along with 8GB to 32GB of LPDDR5 memory depending In the model, extremely fast internal storage of between 256GB and 8TB (instead of a maximum volume of 2TB in the previous incarnation), advanced wireless Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, macOS 13 system, 1Gbps Ethernet connection that can also be upgraded to 10Gbps for an additional fee And between 2 and 4 Thunderbolt 4 connections in the USB Type-C interface, next to a full-size HDMI 2.0 or HDMI 2.1 connection and another pair of USB 3.2 Gen 2 connections in the Type-A interface.
Apple will offer the updated Mac Mini for sale in the United States starting January 24, at a price of $600 before tax for the version with an Apple M2 processor, 8GB of dynamic memory and 256GB of internal storage – when doubling the storage to 512GB will hurt the pocket with an additional 200 A dollar for the price and switching to the M2 Pro chip in its (relatively) modest version with 16GB of storage and 512GB of internal storage will require a payment of $1,300 before tax. Interested in the beefed-up M2 Pro processor with a pair of additional general-purpose processing cores and three additional processing clusters for the graphics core? No problem, with the addition of $300 that will already bring the price to $1,600 before tax.
As in the case of the MacBook Pro computers, on the product page of the Mac Mini on Apple’s official website you can find several upgrade options that will jump the price tag up several times faster – so if you want a model of the tiny desktop computer with 32GB of LPDDR5 storage, The M2 Pro chip in its powerful configuration and 8TB of storage as well as an advanced Ethernet connection at a speed of up to 10Gbps will require you to part with $4,500 before tax, or approximately NIS 15,270. Would you also like the professional versions of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro? The price will reach within touching distance of 5,000 dollars.
One can take solace, perhaps, in the fact that the new high maximum price of the Mac Mini is still far from the crazy maximum price of the compact Mac Studio desktop computer – where a model with an Apple M1 Ultra processor, 128GB of dynamic memory and 8TB of storage reaches up to $8,000 . Proportions, Apple style.