Last night, Apple directly released the 14/16-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini product line based on the M2 chip on the official social platform without warning. After iterating to the M2 Pro/Max chip, performance improvement and price increase are the biggest features. In this way, the Mac mini priced at 9999 yuan embedded with M2 Pro chip + 4 Thunderbolt interfaces has increased its cost performance.
According to the official introduction, the M2 Pro chip has a 12-core central processing unit that is up to 1.9 times faster than the M1, and a 16-core graphics processor that is up to 2.6 times faster. And because the M2 Pro has more CPU and graphics cores, the memory bandwidth is up to twice that of the M2. Processing ProRes, H.264, HEVC videos is so fast that even multiple 8K resolution video streams can be edited at the same time. In addition, the M2 Pro chip version Mac mini can support up to three display devices.
It is worth mentioning that Apple broke through the SoC architecture design, integrating the central processing unit, graphics processing unit, unified memory and neural network engine all on a single chip with high energy efficiency. Among them, unified memory is an innovation for Mac. The combined high-bandwidth, low-latency memory pool makes the M-series chip transfer data more efficient and smoother, while the M2 Pro chip version Mac mini can choose up to 32GB of unified memory.
Apple's official website sales information: M2+8GB+256GB costs 4499 yuan, M2+8GB+512GB costs 5999 yuan, M2 Pro +16GB+512GB costs 9999 yuan. Pre-orders will be accepted from 9 a.m. on January 9, 2023, and officially released on February 3, 2023.