After months of rumors about a redesigned Mac mini with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, recent reports indicate that Apple has canceled its plans for a new Mac mini in 2022.
Apple has been believed to be working on a new Mac mini for some time. It updated the entry-level Mac mini with the M1 chip in November 2020, but the high-end offering is still the Space Gray model with an Intel processor from 2018. A recent report from 9to5Mac claimed that Apple originally “had plans” to introduce high-end versions of the Mac mini with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, but these plans were “probably scrapped” in favor of the all-new Mac Studio.
At its “Peek Performance” event, Apple senior vice president of Hardware Engineering John Ternus said that the Apple silicon transition has “just one more product to go: Mac Pro,” before adding “that’s for another day,” potentially indicating that a new high-end Mac mini is off the cards for this year.
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