Apple announces updated Mac mini, here’s everything new

Apple has refreshed its popular desktop computers, the Mac Mini and Mac Studio, by equipping them with more powerful chips. These smaller computers have become bestsellers for the iPhone company, especially for local applications involving artificial intelligence (AI). The refreshed models are expected to be better suited for such AI purposes with the new chips from Apple's M-series.

More performance, higher prices The Mac Mini, which was previously offered with M4 and M4 Pro chips, is upgraded to M6 and M5 Pro. Even with the M6 chip, the Mac Mini is supposed to deliver up to four times faster AI performance compared to its predecessor. The memory chips can process data twice as fast according to Apple. The starting price for the Mac mini increases from the previous 949 to 1,049 Euros.

Apple, like other hardware manufacturers, struggles with the fact that memory chips have sharply increased in price due to high demand for AI data centers. In recent months, there have been supply shortages for some devices of the company due to difficult chip availability. New, most powerful Apple chip Apple is refreshing the Mac Studio with the M5 Max chip - and also uses it for the first time the new chip system M5 Ultra, which is the most powerful chipset of the company so far.

With up to 36 main processor cores and up to 80 graphics cores, it is supposed to enable local training of AI models with larger datasets. The starting price for the Mac Studio with Max chip remains unchanged at 2,999 Euros. The Mac Mini is the first hardware update in almost two years, the Mac Studio was last updated in spring 2025.