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Mac mini 2024 ushers in a major upgrade, cross-generation upgrade to M4 chip, the smallest host ever

2024-08-10

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You know, Mac does not sell hardware, but MacOS. I have been a hackintosh user for a long time, because the system is stable and has no problems, the memory and solid state can be expanded at will, and I can switch to Windows system to play games when I get tired of it.

But when Apple stuffed the M1 chip into the Mac mini, I was still "broken". Because it is not only cheap, but also has the performance of the X86 architecture, thanks to the ARM architecture. The solid-state drive can be solved by an external expansion dock. Except that the memory cannot be expanded freely, everything else is almost perfect.

However, the subsequent Mac mini M2 is not as amazing as the first generation. Although the performance has been greatly improved, a new M2 Pro version with more productivity has been released.

The problem is that Mac mini is not without its shortcomings. As a computer host, it has too few interfaces, and memory and solid-state expansion are difficult. Compared with M1, the overall performance improvement of M2 is only between 10% and 20%, and there is no obvious change in the process. Since the performance is not impressive enough, it certainly does not arouse our desire to buy it.

The good news is that according to foreign media reports, the next generation of Mac mini products will usher in major upgrades, including two points.