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

Apple’s subsequent Mac Mini received’t have USB-A ports, in response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in immediately’s Energy On e-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 loads 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 response to 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 dimension of an Apple TV.

Is it time to say goodbye to USB-A? Possibly. In all probability. However irrespective of how you are feeling about that, it’s completely time one thing new occurred with the Mac Mini, the longest-in-the-tooth Apple laptop design. As Chris Welch illustrated earlier this month, it appears to be like the identical in our 2012 and 2023 evaluations. (He didn’t level out our assessment of the first model of the Mac Mini’s present design as a result of there isn’t one — The Verge didn’t exist but in 2010.)