Shrunken Mac Minis and a new iPad Mini might come in November

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The rumored redesign of the Mac Mini could beryllium announced aboriginal this period alongside caller iMacs, iPad Minis, and high-end MacBook Pros.

By Wes Davis, a play exertion who covers the latest successful tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and much arsenic a tech writer since 2020.

Oct 6, 2024, 2:12 PM UTC

Picture of a Mac Mini sitting connected a table with a keyboard successful beforehand of it.

Apple is readying to denote successful precocious October that caller Macs, including a rumored Mac Mini that’s about the size of an Apple TV, volition beryllium disposable to bargain starting connected November 1st. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who besides writes successful his Power On newsletter today that the iPad Mini is getting an overdue refresh — its archetypal since 2021.

The Mac Mini whitethorn beryllium the astir breathtaking of the updates, fixed the rumored important carnal revamp coming on with a caller M4 chip. Despite its shrunken size, the M4 Pro mentation mightiness person a steadfast connectivity dispersed (albeit without immoderate USB-A ports).

Gurman writes that Apple volition besides denote M4 versions of the basal exemplary 14-inch MacBook Pro, arsenic good arsenic the high-end 14- and- 16-inch MacBook Pro models and the iMac. As for the caller iPad Mini, it’s expected to beryllium an all-around spec bump with few-to-no carnal changes.

Looking beyond that, Apple volition rotation retired M4-equipped MacBook Airs, a redesigned iPhone SE, refreshed iPad Airs (and Magic Keyboards to spell with them), and a new AirTag successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, according to Gurman. Apple could besides merchandise updated versions of the Mac Studio and Mac Pro — which haven’t shown up successful the M3 upgrade rhythm — successful mediate and 2nd fractional of adjacent year, respectively.

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