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

Apple’s next Mac Mini will not have a USB-A port. BloombergMark Gurman is Today Power On Newsletter The new desktops will start arriving in Apple warehouses in September, he wrote, with the higher-end models featuring the Apple M4 Pro chip scheduled to ship in October.

Gurman’s sources say the M4 Pro-equipped version will still have plenty of ports, including five USB-C ports (two on the front and three on the back), an Ethernet port, an HDMI port, a headphone jack, and more. The new Mac Mini will also likely have an internal power supply — not bad for a computer that’s expected to be roughly the size of an Apple TV.

Is it time to say goodbye to USB-A? Maybe. Maybe. But regardless of how you feel about it, it’s definitely time for something new to happen with the oldest Apple computer design, the Mac Mini. As Chris Welch explained earlier this month, it looks the same in his 2012 and 2023 reviews. (He said: First version The current design of the Mac Mini is: The Verge It didn’t exist in 2010 yet.