Surprise! We all knew new iPads and Macs were coming, but Apple snuck in one more little bit of news at the tail-end of today’s announcement: new Mac Minis.
So what’s new? The most obvious change is the price, which is dropping from $599 to $499 for the base model. That’s a price cut of nearly 20% from generation to generation.
It looks like they’ve also dropped the Firewire port, replacing it with… a second Thunderbolt 2 port. It’s got 2 Thunderbolt 2 ports, 4 USB ports, Ethernet, a built-in SDXC slot, and an HDMI output.
Like with most of their products, they’ve bumped the WiFi chip up to 802.11ac (instead of 802.11n), bringing the maximum theoretical speed of the WiFi up to 866 megabits per second (assuming your router is up to snuff, of course)
It’ll come in three models:
- $599: 1.4 Ghz CPU, 500GB spinning disk drive
- $699: 2.6 GHz CPU, 1TB spinning disk drive
- $999: 2.8 Ghz CPU, 1TB solid state drive
The new Mac Minis start shipping today
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