Mac Mini M4 Pro
Introduction/Description
At just five by five inches, the Apple Mac mini is less than half the size of the previous Mac mini. The compact Mac mini has a small footprint in your workspace and its lightweight design makes it easy to move, mount, and rack. Now housing the powerful M4 Pro 12-Core chip, the Mac mini delivers up to 1.8x faster CPU performance and 2.2x faster GPU performance over the M1 model. Add 64GB of unified RAM, 4TB of storage, Wi-Fi 6E, and Thunderbolt 5, the Mac mini is a tiny powerhouse. The Mac mini also features Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that transforms the way you express yourself, all while protecting your privacy. As Apple’s first carbon neutral Mac, the Mac mini has seen over 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across its materials, manufacturing, transportation, and customer use.
This Mac comes preloaded with macOS. Updates can be downloaded for free via the Mac App Store. Please check Apple’s website for upgrade eligibility. Also, please note that a keyboard and mouse are not included.
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Ratings
These ratings are my personal opinion – Your Opinion maybe different than mine!
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Opinion
I must say I’m very impressed of the speed of this little machine and the best is that it doesn’t make fan noises. At my installation I can’t even here the fan working.
The installation was very easy and the build quality is Apple like perfect.
What I don’t like is that there are only 3 TB5 connections in the back and 2 USB-C 10 Gbps connection in the front. No USB-A or so. In addition the speaker connector is on the front which I think is really stupid but not as stupid as putting the power on button under the case.
Under the photos you’ll find Geekbench & Cinebench results as well as the results of the internal SSD speed.
I tested several Windows game trough Crossover and most of the time they worked. Some didn’t and I need to change some settings manually but at the end they run and that really good.
The only one who makes trouble is the Battle.net launcher – it takes up to 30 minutes for him to start but when started you can play your games with it without a problem.
Of course, games developed for Apple are running smooth without any issues which is normal due to the M4 Pro chip.
Overall I’m more than satisfied that I bought this one instead of a Windows machine and maybe I even gonna stay with this one as main machine – the future will show it.
Specifications
- 12-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores
- 16-core GPU
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 273GB/s memory bandwidth
- Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW
- Video decode engine
- Video encode engine
- ProRes encode and decode engine
- AV1 decode
- 24GB unified memory
- 512GB SSD (pay attention that this is a special Apple version and not a real SSD)
- Up to three displays: Three displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI
- Up to two displays: One display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt and one display with up to 8K resolution at 60Hz or 4K resolution at 240Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI
- Support for native DisplayPort 2.1 output over USB‑C
- Support for one display with up to 8K resolution at 60Hz or 4K resolution at 240Hz (M4 and M4 Pro)
- Built-in speaker
- 3.5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones
- HDMI port supports multichannel audio output
- Two USB-C ports with support for USB 3 (up to 10Gb/s)
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- Gigabit Ethernet port
- HDMI
- 3 * TB5: Thunderbolt 5 (up to 120Gb/s) // USB 4 (up to 120Gb/s) // DisplayPort
- Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax)
- Bluetooth 5.3
- Height: 5.0 cm
- Width: 12.7 cm
- Depth: 12.7 cm
- Weight (M4 Pro): 0.73 kg
- Maximum continuous power: 155W
