Apple has announced fresh versions of the Mac Mini and Mac Studio desktop computers, alongside some new chips: the M6 and M5 Ultra.
\n\nNeither Mac desktop has undergone any physical changes on the exterior, but the long-awaited update brings these Macs back into stock after being difficult to buy for most of this year. Importantly, this serves as our first introduction to the M6 chip, which we will likely see much more of in future MacBooks.
\n\nSkipping the M5 entirely, the Mac Mini now comes in two flavors: the M6 and the M5 Pro. The M5 Pro is the same chip that's currently found in the MacBook Pro, but the M6 is brand new. It's the first Apple Silicon part to be built on 2-nanometer process technology and also adds extra cores to the mix. This is a 12-core CPU—another first for Apple—broken down into two super cores, four performances cores, and six efficiency cores.
\n\nNew here are the performance cores, which Apple says are designed to speed up multithreaded tasks while preserving efficiency. Apple claims the M6 is 20 percent faster than the M5 in multithreaded performance and 40 percent faster than the M4.
\n\nThe M6 comes with a…
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