Apple has began a service program to particularly deal with an issue that house owners of the M2 Mac mini could also be having. In response to Apple, “a really small share” of those Mac minis have a difficulty the place they are going to now not energy on. Eligible units can have service completed to repair the problem by Apple or an Apple Licensed Service Supplier.
The affected Mac minis had been manufactured between June 16, 2024 and November 23, 2024. To see in case your Mac mini qualifies, Apple has an internet site the place you present your Mac mini’s serial quantity: test in case your Mac mini is certified for service.
Certified units may be introduced in for service at an Apple Retailer or an Apple Licensed Service Supplier, although house owners must carry the Mac mini into the store, since mail-in service shouldn’t be accessible for desktop Macs. The service for this particular downside is free, however the buyer could must pay for any extra repairs which might be essential to implement the repair.
The M2 Mac mini first hit the market in January 2023 and was changed by the M4 Mac mini in October 2024, so the affected fashions had been manufactured in the direction of the top of the M2 Mac mini’s cycle. Apple additionally provided an M2 Professional Mac mini similtaneously the usual M2; whereas Apple’s web site refers solely to the M2, it’s doubtless that it is a normal reference to the M2 chip collection and that the M2 Professional mannequin can also be concerned within the service program.