Apple’s newly announced M2 Mac mini is now available in the Middle East and Europe, with deliveries and in-store pickups beginning today for the new machine that was announced last week, offering faster performance over the previous-generation with more unified memory, and more.
Apple announced the new Mac mini last week, available with both the M2 and new M2 Pro chip. Compared to the previous-generation Mac mini, the M2 and M2 Pro chips bring a faster next-generation CPU and GPU, much higher memory bandwidth, and a more powerful media engine to Mac mini, with the M2 model featuring an 8-core CPU with four high-performance and four high-efficiency cores, along with a 10-core GPU.
Apple touts that the new M2 Pro chip “brings pro-level performance to Mac mini for the first time.” Featuring up to a 12-core CPU with eight high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, along with up to a 19-core GPU, M2 Pro has 200GB/s of memory bandwidth — double the amount in M2 — and supports up to 32GB of memory.
The new Mac mini with M2 starts at $599 (US) and $499 (US) for education. Mac mini with M2 starts at $599 (US) and $499 (US) for education.