Apple’s New Mac mini Power Supply PCB Has Cutouts To House Components And Reduce The Height; A Costly Approach, But Necessary To Reduce The Overall Size

Apple's redesigned Mac mini PCB has cutouts to reduce its size

It is astonishing how Apple employed a truckload of techniques to reduce the footprint of its redesigned Mac mini, and the company never bothered to talk in-depth on how it achieved this feat. Then again, the Cupertino giant did not need to, not when curious YouTubers got a hand on these units and performed the disassembly. One of them noticed that the power supply unit’s PCB has separate cutouts so that the components can pass through those openings instead of being soldered on the top, which helps save space, but it is also an expensive process. The exact figure not […]

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