Deliveries and in-store pickups begin for new M2 Mac mini in the Middle East and Europe

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.