https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/apple-is-releasing-a-mac-mini-with-an-apple-processor-for-developers-starting-this-week/

Apple is eager to help developers transition to its forthcoming Apple system-on-a-chip based Mac computers, and it’s preparing a number of resources to do that – including developer hardware. Apple’s Developer Transition Kit, which registered developers can apply for via its developer website, includes a Mac mini with an A12Z processor inside, running a pre-release version of macOS Big Sur.

The kit spec includes 16GB of RAM, as well as a 512GB SSD, and will come with Xcode preinstalled so that developers can get working on their apps right away. This is very much pre-release hardware, however – the first consumer Macs that run on Apple’s in-house silicon won’t ship until later this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook said during a keynote event for the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday.