Apple ditched the idea of a Mac mini based on the M1 Pro SoC (System-on-a-Chip), according to fresh chatter from the grapevine, but the company is now working on a fresh spin on the compact PC powered by M2 chips instead. This comes from prolific Apple leaker Mark Gurman, in his Power On (opens in new tab) newsletter (for Bloomberg), in which he notes that Apple was working on a Mac mini with M1 Pro which was supposed to launch at the end of 2021 or beginning of 2022. Obviously that never happened, and the theory is (apply the usual caveats with the rumor mill) that Apple abandoned the device – a move likely tied up in the release of the Mac Studio – and is now developing Mac mini models which will use the vanilla M2 SoC and the M2 Pro (which we’ve heard via the rumor mill before).
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