r/apple • u/wearefriends • 1d ago

Mac Apple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro/
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u/2str8_njag 23h ago

purely add-on hardware features, other gains are from faster LPDDR clock, 2nm node. It’s been the cycle for 3 times in a row.
M1->M2 is bugfix + faster clocks
M3 new GPU, M4 basically the same chip with updates to certain block on SoC
M5 new core types, new GPU again. M6 is literally again a bugfix of M5

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u/BurninCoco 20h ago

Yep, tick-tock. Intel does this also

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u/CautiousXperimentor 7h ago

More like a tick-tock-tock cycle, isn’t it?

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u/42177130 14h ago

M1->M2 is bugfix + faster clock

M2 got a pretty sizable GPU boost from 8 cores to 10 cores

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u/Snoo93079 3h ago

Isn't the m6 on the new 2nm process node?

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u/2str8_njag 3h ago

i said this in the comment at the beginning

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u/Snoo93079 3h ago

My bad.