Apparently, Apple, completely surprisingly, has decided to renew its line up of products based on the M2 chip range. Today we told you about the renewed versions of the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks equipped with the M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs, products mainly intended for professionals who need a lot of power for tasks such as programming, video editing or photo editing.
The bitten apple company also took the opportunity to launch its new one mac mini, which now comes with chips M2 And M2 Pro. From a performance point of view, we recall that M2 is a step forward compared to M1, as the 8-core CPU is up to 15% faster than the previous generation one, while the 10-core GPU improves graphics performance up to at 35%. The 16-core Neural Engine has also been upgraded and is now capable of processing 15.8 trillion operations per second, more than 40% more than the M1.
M2 Pro further raises the bar, reaching up to 12 CPU cores and 19 GPU cores, with up to 32GB of RAM. Compared to the previous generation (M1 Pro), other notable improvements include compiling in Xcode, which is almost 25% faster, image processing in Adobe Photoshop (up to 40% faster), and more. As far as connectivity is concerned, the new Mac Mini comes with a network chip that supports the standards WiFi 6E And Bluetooth 5.3. On board we find two Thunderbolt 4, two USB-A, one HDMI, one Gigabit Ethernet and a 3.5mm audio jack. The variant with M2 Pro also offers two additional Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Mac Mini M2 and Mac Mini M2 Pro are available for pre-order now effective availability is scheduled for January 24th. The starting price is 729 euros for the model with M2 (8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores) with 8GB of unified memory and 256GB SSD. For more details, please consult the official site.
