Apple software leaks new Mac mini with five USB-C ports ahead of rumored event

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Bloombergs Mark Gurman believes that the event will mainly focus on the first wave of Macs with M4 processors, following the standard M4s introduction in the iPad Pro earlier this year. This Mac mini is said to be closer in size to the Apple TV than the current mini, but still uses an internal power supply so that owners wont have to wrangle a power brick. At least some of the current devices ports will be replaced by USB-C and/or Thunderbolt ports, something that MacRumors apparently confirmed earlier today when they found a reference to an "Apple silicon Mac mini (5 ports)" in an Apple software update (some of those ports are reportedly on the front of the device, a nice Mac Studio design upgrade that Id like to see on a new Mac mini). The "five port" descriptor does imply that there will be another model with either more or fewer ports—Apple used similar terminology to distinguish the two- and four-port versions of some MacBook Pro models in the Intel days. The current M2 Mac mini models have fewer ports than the models with the M2 Pro chip, because the more powerful processor also has more I/O capabilities—assuming we get one Mac mini with an M4 and an upgraded model with an M4 Pro, wed expect the Pro version to have more ports.

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