"Amazon just kicked off Black Friday pricing for several Apple devices including AirTags, MacBook Air models, and the brand-new Mac Mini with M4 chip. The 2024 Mac Mini is Apple's more affordable desktop computer, and the 256GB model is now available for $499 instead of its usual $599 price. That's a $100 discount and an all-time low for a machine that's only been on the market for roughly a year now."
"The M4 is among the latest generations of Apple silicon and brings impressive boosts in performance from what was a breathtakingly remarkable M2 that powered the last Mac Mini. The processor houses 10 CPU cores-again, a mix of performance and efficiency cores-allowing the system to handle tasks dynamically, depending on their computational demands. The GPU here is an integrated 10-core GPU on the same chip as the CPU for all graphical processing."
"It does away with discrete graphics cards while still offering high-end visual performance. This unified architecture allows the GPU to share the same 16GB of unified memory as the CPU, meaning that in graphics-intensive applications, data access is way quicker than in systems where the GPU has separate video memory that constantly needs data transfers. Speaking of memory, the 16GB of unified RAM is a significant upgrade from the base 8GB configuration Apple used in previous entry-level Macs."
Amazon reduced the 256GB 2024 Mac Mini with the M4 chip to $499 from $599, representing a $100 discount and an all-time low. The M4 combines ten CPU cores in a performance/efficiency mix and a 10-core integrated GPU on the same chip, enabling dynamic task handling and strong graphics without a discrete card. The GPU and CPU share 16GB of unified memory, improving data access in graphics-intensive applications. The 16GB unified RAM replaces the previous base 8GB, reducing swapping and allowing more simultaneous apps and browser tabs. The 256GB SSD provides fast boot and application load times.
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