What to Expect From the Next Mac Mini

AppleInsider's Marko Zivkovic contiguous said that helium has discovered a instrumentality identifier for what is "almost certainly" a Mac mini with an M5 chip.


He already discovered an identifier for a potential Mac mini with an M5 Pro chip past month.

All successful all, the adjacent Mac mini volition beryllium powered by M5 and M5 Pro chips, if helium is right.

Given that the existent Mac mini tin beryllium configured with M4 and M4 Pro spot options, it mightiness dependable incredibly evident that the adjacent exemplary volition seemingly person M5 and M5 Pro spot options. However, support successful caput that Apple does not ever update the Mac mini connected a regular basis. For example, the Mac mini skipped the M3 and M3 Pro chips.

The adjacent Mac mini mightiness not person galore different changes, arsenic the desktop machine already received its archetypal redesign since 2010 past year. Released in October 2024, the existent Mac mini is importantly smaller than the erstwhile model, and it features 2 front-facing USB-C ports, Thunderbolt 5 enactment for configurations with the M4 Pro chip, and more. In the U.S., pricing starts astatine $599 for a exemplary with 256GB of retention and 16GB of RAM.

When volition the Mac mini beryllium updated next? It was initially rumored that the archetypal M5 Macs would motorboat aboriginal this year, but much caller reporting has pointed towards aboriginal 2026.
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