Apple is preparing to release a new Mac mini within days, ahead of its September iPhone event, according to a Bloomberg report that also puts AirPods 5 at that event and an OLED iPad mini in October.
The timing would make the Mac mini one of the last products shipped under Tim Cook, who hands the chief executive role to John Ternus on 1 September.
Which processor it carries is not yet settled in the reporting. The machine could arrive with either an M5 or an M6, since the current Mac mini never received the M5 at all and has gone close to two years without an update.
That gap is unusual for a product Apple normally refreshes on a predictable cycle. It also arrives after both the Mac mini and Mac Studio went out of stock earlier this month, a pattern that reads either as clearing inventory before a launch or as the memory shortage biting, and possibly both.
The DRAM crisis is the backdrop to everything Apple ships this autumn. Memory prices have risen sharply enough that Apple has already reported component cost pressure, and a desktop whose configurations are defined largely by how much RAM you buy is exposed to that in a direct way.
