How Apple Silicon Mac Mini could be a HUGE DEAL



0:00 In today’s Apple News Daily
0:36 Apple Invents MTV
1:22 iPhone 12 & 12 Pro Launch Numbers
3:23 Mac Mini – Even Lower Price Speculation, What Could That Mean?
10:06 Notification Squad
(Total video 10:46)

Renders in today’s video via Apple Tomorrow

Apple Music TV is now available in the United States, streaming live music videos 24 hours a day. The surprise new channel, which is free to all, promises “exclusive new music videos … live shows” and more.

Apple’s mission to make its own music service more appealing than rivals like Spotify has seen it make a number of interesting moves, like securing exclusive albums and hosting live radio stations.
Free, and as long as you live in America, available.

Strong start for iPhone 12 & 12 Pro

iPhone 12 & Pro almost matches demand for entire 11 range in pre-orders – with the highly anticipated iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max still to go on pre-sale next month. The two mid table phones gathered between 7-9 million pre-orders.

Mac mini – How cheap could it be?
What does an Apple Silicon Mac mini need?
Power Supply connection
A Mac series SOC – possibly equivalent to an A14?
Wifi & Bluetooth
Some sort of IO
Display connection
Cooling? Maybe Not
Storage.

What it doesn’t need.
A display
A battery
A touch screen
Lets look at iPad 8th Gen –
At the time that it was introduced, the A12 SOC cost around $72 per unit according to MacRumours. The cost must have now come down, considering its the heart of the iPad 8th Gen which retails for just $329. So, if we took that as our base system and built a Mac mini around it, surely we could reduce costs even further.
Right now, just to replace the display on one of these costs around $150 if its broken along with the digitiser layer. I guess we could assume the actual component cost is around $60?

Apple TV Shell?
Mac G4 Cube stand?
Magic Mouse charge port underneath
Magsafe on top?? .

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