Apple launches upgraded Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini with higher prices and soldered storage

Apple launches upgraded Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini with higher prices and soldered storage

Apple announced in Cupertino on September twenty-four that its newest Mac mini models equipped with M6 and M5 Pro chips use soldered NAND storage, and the 256 GB configuration, built from a single chip, delivers slower read/write speeds than larger SSDs, according to MacRumors. The updates follow Apple’s launch on September fifteen of a Mac Studio powered by the M5 Ultra chip, which doubles CPU, GPU and memory bandwidth versus the prior generation and starts at $12,299, and a new Mac mini with the M6 processor priced from $899.

Early Geekbench 7 tests showed the M5 Ultra delivering roughly 30 % higher single-core and 35 % higher multi-core scores than the M3 Ultra, while the M6 offered about 12 % single-core and 27 % multi-core improvements over the M5. Metal benchmark data indicated up to 59 % higher GPU performance for the M5 Ultra and 34 % for the M6.

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Apple Geekbench

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Cupertino, California, United States

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