first we had in-person
Keynotes then we got our plus long infomercials but now a whole week
devoted to Mac announcements including a complete redesign of the Mac Mini it is
very cute but that isn't even the most
exciting thing we get so let's look at what they announced because while the
Mac Mini might be smaller the rest of the lineup got a whole lot more capable
for the money
almost 2 years ago we did a whole video about the value of the Mac Mini saying
that it's very hard to get a computer that capable for the money this new Mac
Mini is arguably an even better deal on the Tuesday of Apple's exciting week of
announcements Apple Shrunk the Mac Mini down to a 5 in square 1.5lb package
seemingly the size of a typical Thunderbolt dock if the power supply is
built in which it is on the Mac it is proportionally taller than the tired
previous design part of that height is from the distance off the table which
allows for better air flow it's definitely an impressively densely
packed machine built for Apple silicon from the ground up in contrast to the
previous model which reused a chassis that was designed for Intel chips and
Optical drives it appears that Apple has finally pulled the plug on usba a as the
Mac Mini no longer has them now there's Ethernet HDMI three Thunderbolt at the
back and at the front a handy pair of USB ports beside a headphone jack I'll
be honest part of me worries that the Mac Mini is almost too small apple
showed examples of how people could use all that io on their desk and because
the computer is so small it could get buried or pulled around by the weight of
the peripherals as someone who loves a bit of design it's perhaps a bit sad
that the Mac Mini is losing its presence on the desk it's why I love the iMac so
much speaking of on Monday it got new colors they are a little more saturated
this time around closer to the candy palette of Skittles I like the previous
colors and I like these ones too Apple has also pulled the plug on Lightning
yes its peripheral is now charged with USBC and yes you still have to flip over
the magic mouse to do so it also gets a new 12 map Center Stage camera as well
as a nanotexture display option both of which are included in the new Macbook
Pro there's not much more on the MacBook Pro side other than the fact that the
Bas M model gets an extra Thunderbolt port and the space black option just
joking the most exciting thing announce applies to all Max which I'll tell you
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purchase I am pleased to finally report that every Mac sold from Apple from now
on comes with a standard 16 GB of
memory you can cheer yes even the ,000
M2 MacBook Air this is a big deal because as I've noted for the past few
years 8 GB severely limits what you can do with your Mac it won't even run some
benchmarks and it would be weird if you could buy a Mac that has less RAM than
an iPhone 16 I thought the higher-end M3 chips last year to be a bit lame with
the M3 Pros performance cores and memory bandwidth being compromised this M4
generation looks a lot more like the original M1 Apple's humor graphs showed
numbers between two and three times faster while the typical M4 gets two
more efficiency cores over the previous generation and M4 Max core counts are
unchanged the M4 Pro gets eight performance cords in the base skew
instead of five last year I'm very excited to see the M4 Pro get the CPU
power deserves making it the value King in my opinion I'm also relieved to see
that the base M4 chips can now support three displays this means that even the
entry-level MacBook Pro can support two displays plus its own finally so where
can you get all these chips bm4 is available on the iMac Mac Mini and 14-in
MacBook Pro the M4 Pro is available on the Mac Mini and MacBook Pros in both
sizes while the latter only gets the M4 Max until the Max studio gets updated if
it gets updated it better get updated oh yeah I guess that's also the last device
to have usba isn't it now prices are
largely the same in the lineup so at $600 the Mac Mini looks to be incredible
value even with the standard memory increase RAM upgrade prices are still
the same at $200 per 8 GB storage tiers
remain the same too with only 256 GB
standard on the iMac and M4 Mac minis I
am concerned that this could become another unupdate 8 gig iPhone 5c
situation but the benefit with desktops is that they don't move so external
storage is an option every day in these announcements
app voted a section to Apple intelligence the first phase of which
was pushed out this week I do intend to cover Apple intelligence by the way but
this roll out is quite gradual and so I'd like some time to see how some of
these more useful features integrate in my life as they roll out historically
Apple was very good at producing narratives to demonstrate their products in a holistic and integrated way but
with apple intelligence it feels like list of features being rattled off and
after every announcement I'm left asking what what can it
do this week was an interesting new way to do these announcements each these
videos was about 10 minutes long so lumping it all together in one announcement would be too short but
there might be a greater advertising strategy to this too this week while
browsing my own personal YouTube the iMac announcement was served to me as a
pre-roll ad which of course I skipped already saw it Oh yeah and that reminds
me what do do you think about that effortless power ad at the end of the
MacBook announcement I'm not sure thought it was a little cheesy could and
there it is the pinky promise thanks for taking forever to give this Mac Address
enough memory uh yeah comment below what you think of that ad and if you want to
see another video we've done since we're talking about desktops why not watch the
one where I review a Mac Studio on the beach