Apple’s rumored Mac Mini redesign may ditch the USB-A port

Apple’s adjacent Mac Mini won’t person USB-A ports, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes successful today’s Power On newsletter that the caller desktops volition commencement to deed Apple’s warehouses successful September. The higher-end variant with an Apple M4 Pro spot volition vessel successful October, helium writes.

The mentation with an M4 Pro volition inactive cram a batch of ports, including 5 USB-C ports (two successful the beforehand and 3 successful the back), an ethernet port, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack, according to Gurman’s sources. And the caller Mac Mini volition seemingly person an interior powerfulness supply. That’s not excessively shabby for a machine that’s expected to beryllium astir the size of an Apple TV.

Is it clip to accidental goodbye to USB-A? Maybe. Probably. But nary substance however you consciousness astir that, it’s perfectly clip thing caller happened with the Mac Mini, the longest-in-the-tooth Apple machine design. As Chris Welch illustrated earlier this month, it looks the aforesaid successful our 2012 and 2023 reviews. (He didn’t constituent retired our reappraisal of the first version of the Mac Mini’s existent plan due to the fact that determination isn’t 1 — The Verge didn’t beryllium yet successful 2010.)