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

Sep 01, 2024 09:38 PM - 6 months ago 221486

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 nan caller desktops will commencement to deed Apple’s warehouses successful September. The higher-end version pinch an Apple M4 Pro spot will vessel successful October, he writes.

The type pinch an M4 Pro will still cram a batch of ports, including 5 USB-C ports (two successful nan beforehand and 3 successful nan back), an ethernet port, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack, according to Gurman’s sources. And nan caller Mac Mini will apparently person an soul powerfulness supply. That’s not excessively shabby for a machine that’s expected to beryllium astir nan size of an Apple TV.

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

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