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

Apple’s subsequent Mac Mini received’t have USB-A ports, in line with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in today’s Power On 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, in line with 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? Possibly. Most likely. However regardless of how you’re 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 overview of the first version of the Mac Mini’s present design as a result of there isn’t one — The Verge didn’t exist but in 2010.)