Mac Mini (2020)

🇲🇴 "The introduction of three new Macs featuring Apple’s breakthrough M1 chip represents a bold change that was years in the making, and marks a truly historic day for the Mac and for Apple. M1 is by far the most powerful chip we’ve ever created, and combined with Big Sur, delivers mind-blowing performance, extraordinary battery life, and access to more software and apps than ever before. We can’t wait for our customers to experience this new generation of Mac, and we have no doubt it will help them continue to change the world."

- Tim Cook

The 2020 Mac Mini is an Mac Mini small form-factor desktop computer developed and designed and Apple. The Mac Mini was released on November 10, 2020, on an Intel-based chip, followed by a varient of the Apple M1 chip. They were identifed by a diffrent color, i.e. silver for the M1-based varient and space gray for the former.

M1
The 2020 Mac Mimi with the Apple M1 chip has a 3x faster-8-core CPU, 6x faster GPU, and 15x faster ML performances. It runs on a secured system powered by a dedicated secure subsystem integrated into M1 branded as Secure Enclave. The M1 Mac Mini are the first Macs with support for the Thunderbolt hub feature found in Thunderbolt 4.

The M1 Mac Mini uses a thermal-based design that helps to keep it cool and quiet. Assembled at the back are two Thunderbolt 3/USB-C 4 ports and USB-C ports. It includes Thunderpolt ports than predecessor, a HDMI 2.0 port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, two USB-A ports, and a port for power cord plug-in. Base models are bundled with 8GB of RAM, with an upgradability of 16GB; high-end Intel model, in contrast, supportsup to 64GB of RAM. It is conjurable to six external 4K or 1080p displays, despite that Apple claims that it can only run two such displays at max.

Intel
The Intel vairent, however, has a 6-core Intel Core i7 processor with Intel UHD Graphics 630, support for up to three 4K displays or one 5K display and one 4K display, four Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports, and supports of 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Simialr to the M1 courterpart, it has Bluetooth 5.0 wireless technology, two USB-A ports, a HDMI 2.0 port, and Gigabit Ethernet or optional 10Gb Ethernet.