And this doesn’t concern a new camera (for once) but it does involve something to do with photography…
APPLE have recently started marketing updated products with their new processor – the M4. There have been MacBook Pros, iPads etc. but what interests me is the Mac Mini.
This is (almost life size) the new Mac Mini 2024 – 12,7cm wide and 5cm high – tiny!
As with previous editions, APPLE have actually REDUCED the price (by roughly 200€ here in France) and doubled the base RAM to 16Gb from 8Gb.
The cunning buggers have hidden the on/off switch underneath the chassis instead of it being on the rear face – this is ok, but putting ports (particularly the audio jack) on the front is a pain – I don’t like cable draping everywhere.
To avoid having the audio cable plugged in all the time, I’ve invested 19€ in a Bluetooth dongle which can attach to my sound system – this way I can stream music wirelessly.
There are now 2 USB-C ports on the front face, and three USB-C Thunderbird on the rear, but no more USB-A ports. No problems – most of what I connect is USB-C anyway…
Size comparison with the previous M2 model from 2022
The processor is supposed to be roughly twice the power of the previous (M2) one – whether or not this will help much in day to day stuff, I can’t say, but it will certainly help when it comes to rendering large 45mp images in LIGHTROOM.
Can’t wait…until the 8th November 🙂