Apple reportedly has a new Mac Mini: 3 thing you need to know

Apple (AAPL) is reportedly releasing a new Mac Mini this fall. As its smallest computer yet, the desktop would be approximately the same size as the Apple TV set-top box, which is slightly over 3 and a half inches. The device will use the new Apple AI-focused M4 chip, which is currently on the newest version of the iPad Pro.

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley reports more on what consumers need to know about the device.

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Apple reportedly releasing a Mac many later this year.

It would be its smallest computer ever according to Bloomberg news, about the size of an Apple TV set here with the latest and what it could mean for the tech giant.

We've got our very own, Dan, how Dan explain this to me because when I saw the news of a ma many, I thought, oh, good for my back.

And then they said it was the size of the Apple TV set, which is like a little over 3.5 inches.

That feels extremely many.

Yeah, that's right, Mattie, this is, uh, gonna be a desktop.

It's, uh, one of the computers that they usually sell, uh, you know, college students use them.

A lot of people use them for home computers, uh, when they're just trying to, you know, look to save a little bit of space.

And so, uh, according to Bloomberg's, Mark Iman, they, uh, are rolling out a, a slightly smaller one, than they currently have the current, the current one's kind of, uh, you know, flat, uh, but a little bit wide, this one's gonna be, uh, more compact apparently.

And it's going to run with the M four chip that Apple had rolled out with the ipad Pro earlier this year.

I got to use that uh ipad Pro.

I thought, you know, the chip was great.

I was doing pretty much everything I wanted on it except it was running uh ipad Os instead of uh Mac Os, which, you know, if you're trying to multitask and, you know, work uh Mac Os is preferable.

Uh But this is going to be uh uh reportedly a smaller version.

Uh There will also be a version coming later uh with an M four pro chip uh for people who want a little more oomph out of the, the system.

And then there's gonna be some other Macs as well uh coming.

And so, uh according to this report, basically, Apple is going to just cover its lineup with M four stock chips.

Uh And it would be the first time they really did that because right now, you know, there's uh the M two, the M three, you go into one computer uh or, you know, Mac on the site and it's gonna have an M two, you go into another computer on the site, it's gonna have an M three.

So this would be the first time where you can just say, OK, I'm gonna get the latest processor across the board uh for every device.

And so we'll have to wait a little bit longer for those to come out those, those other devices, the, the Macbook air, the Macbook Pro, uh, the Mac Pro, um, uh, for those to get the, the M four.

But it seems as though the, the Mac mini is gonna be the first one out of the gate and, you know, Apple's been doing great with their own silicon.

Uh, they've pushed Intel and A MD, uh to really step up.

Uh, Qualcomm has a chip that can almost rival what Apple does now with performance and battery life.

So they've obviously, you know, got on to something that's, that's really great.

All right, Dan, we're gonna have to leave it there.

Thank you so much for joining us, our very own, Dan Howley.