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

Apple’s subsequent Mac Mini received’t have USB-A ports, based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in as we speak’s Energy On e-newsletter that the brand new desktops will begin to hit Apple’s warehouses in September. The upper-end variant with an Apple M4 Professional chip will ship in October, he writes.

The model with an M4 Professional will nonetheless cram lots of ports, together with 5 USB-C ports (two within the entrance and three within the again), an ethernet port, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack, based on Gurman’s sources. And the brand new Mac Mini will apparently have an inside energy provide. That’s not too shabby for a pc that’s anticipated to be concerning the measurement of an Apple TV.

Is it time to say goodbye to USB-A? Perhaps. In all probability. However regardless of how you are feeling about that, it’s completely time one thing new occurred with the Mac Mini, the longest-in-the-tooth Apple pc design. As Chris Welch illustrated earlier this month, it seems the identical in our 2012 and 2023 critiques. (He didn’t level out our evaluation of the first model of the Mac Mini’s present design as a result of there isn’t one — The Verge didn’t exist but in 2010.)