Mac mini 2021 Rumors, What Will This Apple Computer Look Like?

The Mac mini M1 experience was (and is) fantastic. Apple‘s cheapest computer is not the most basic in components and offers excellent performance even for professionals. However, the future of this could be even better as revealed in a recent report by analyst Mark Gurman, who always has good information about future Apple products.

A Mac mini on par with even the MacBook Pro

Gurman’s report advances details about the next Apple Silicon chip that the company would already be developing and that would not only be destined for the most advanced models of laptops, but would even be integrated into this ‘mini’. Call it the M2, M1X, or whatever Apple wants, but this chip would have up to a 10-core CPU and a possible 16- to 32-core GPU configuration. This would be an important leap that would put the brand’s processors in an even higher status.

Mac mini 2021 Rumors

It is also expected that the J374, the code name by which this Mac mini is allegedly known, will expand the number of ports to have four USB-C ports compatible with Thunderbolt 4, which would be integrated back into its back. Although it does not specify it, it could be expected that its power supply was magnetic as it is already that of the 24-inch iMac launched this 2021.

Gurman also talked about release dates

Just yesterday, which was when this Gurman report was published, we echoed a Digitimes report in which there was talk of delays in the production of the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro expected for the end of the year, which were already assumed for 2022. However, we now have certain doubts given the information now given by the Bloomberg analyst, who points out that the aforementioned Mac mini and MacBook Pro would be launched in early summer.

concepto macbook pro 2021

If the MacBook Pro to which you refer is that redesigned 14-inch model that would replace the current 13, we would certainly be facing contrary information. The specifications discussed for the Mac mini would also reach this laptop, so we understand that it would not be a precisely minor change. Returning to the issue of dates, this would place the new Macs practically on a par with WWDC 2021 that will be held on June 7.

What if Gurman’s Mac mini is what Prosser said?

Jon Prosser is another of Apple’s most prestigious analysts in the field of rumors and leaks. He commented several months ago, when he already predicted the new iMac, that in the summer we would see an intermediate computer between the Mac mini and the Mac Pro with high-end specifications and which we have provisionally named as Mac mini Pro. As explained by Prosser, this would maintain an aesthetic similar to the current Mac mini, only with a size that would be equivalent to stacking three or four units of it.

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Jon Prosser’s “Mac mini Pro” Concept

Based on what Gurman commented for the Mac mini, we wonder if both analysts are really referring to the same team. Both gave these summer dates as a key to knowing them, thus having another indication that they both speak of the same thing. It must be taken into account that the exact sources of both are not known and that neither do they collaborate between them, so there may be some inaccuracy in their analyzes.

Be that as it may, it seems that at the next developer conference in June we will find surprises at the hardware level beyond the expected presentations of operating systems. Therefore we will remain attentive to any information that makes us shed a little more light on this sea of doubts that we have encountered regarding future Macs.