Apple's next Mac Mini won't have USB-A ports, according to 'Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who write today Light fact sheet The new desktop computers will reportedly begin arriving in Apple warehouses in September. The high-end variant with an Apple M4 Pro chip will ship in October.
According to Gurman’s sources, the M4 Pro 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, and a headphone jack. And the new Mac Mini will reportedly have an internal power supply. Not bad for a computer that’s expected to be the size of an Apple TV.
Is it time to say goodbye to USB-A? Maybe. Probably. But no matter what you think about it, it's absolutely time for something new to happen with the Mac Mini, Apple's oldest computer design. As Chris Welch illustrated earlier this month, it looks the same in our 2012 and 2023 reviews. (He didn't point out our review of the First version of the current Mac Mini design because there isn't one — The edge (It didn't exist yet in 2010.)
