Apple just unexpectedly released a new M6 Mac mini—and raised prices again

With all eyes focused on the upcoming iPhone 18 launch (and likely Apple’s first foldable iPhone, too), not many expected Apple to announce new products before next month. Yet that’s just what Apple did today. The company unveiled two new desktop computers—an updated Mac Studio and Mac mini. But boy will they cost you. Apple announces new chips and new desktop Macs Today, Apple unexpectedly announced a slew of new products. They include two entirely new chipsets, the M6 and M5 Ultra. The M6 is especially notable as it’s the company’s first chip based on TSMC’s 2-nanometer process. The current M5 series of chips found in Macs and the A19 chips found in iPhones are based on a 3-nanometer process (2nm chips are more power-efficient and slightly more computationally powerful than 3nm chips). The new base model Mac mini will get the M6 chipset, and there is also a higher-end model available with the M5 Pro chip, which, despite being from an earlier generation, is actually much more powerful than an M6, thanks to the number of CPU and GPU cores Apple has stuck onto the M5 Pro. The new Mac Studio, which has replaced the Mac Pro as Apple’s most powerful desktop offering, gains the M5 Max …