Overview
- Apple announced new Mac models on Aug. 27 and opened preorders through its store and major retailers, with shipments scheduled to begin Sept. 22.
- The Mac mini ships with the M6, which Apple describes as a 12‑core chip made up of two super cores, four performance cores and six efficiency cores and claims up to 1.2x faster multi‑threaded CPU performance versus the M5 and leading single‑thread speeds.
- The Mac Studio is offered with the M5 Ultra, a quad‑die design that Apple says acts as a single large processor and delivers up to 25% faster single‑thread and up to 30% faster multi‑core performance versus the M3 Ultra for tasks like video editing, 3D rendering and running large local AI models.
- Retail pages at Amazon and Best Buy list concrete Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations and prices and Apple added accessory updates such as new Magic Keyboard SKUs and a lower‑priced polishing cloth.
- Apple’s performance numbers are company claims and real‑world gains will vary by workload, and analysts note memory and component cost pressures could limit availability of high‑memory Studio configurations later in the shipping window.