Apple Stops Offering Mac Mini With 256GB of Storage, Starting Price Rises to $799

Apple this week stopped offering a 256GB retention enactment for the Mac mini worldwide. As a result, the desktop machine present has a higher starting price.


In the U.S., for example, the Mac mini present starts astatine $799 with the M4 chip, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage, whereas it antecedently started astatine $599 with the M4 chip, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage.

Mac mini models with the M4 Pro spot already had a minimum of 512GB of storage, truthful determination are nary pricing changes for those configurations.

The basal Mac mini with 256GB of retention had already been unavailable to order since past week, but it has present been removed from Apple's configurator entirely. We person reached retired to Apple for remark and volition update this communicative if we perceive back.

On an net telephone this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that Mac mini and Mac Studio proviso is constrained, and helium said it whitethorn instrumentality "several months" for Apple to execute supply-demand balance. He said some of these Macs are "amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools," resulting successful higher-than-expected demand.

In March, Apple stopped offering the Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM.

These changes to Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations are occurring amid a planetary representation spot shortage, driven by companies gathering retired AI server facilities. Cook said Apple is expecting "significantly higher representation costs" successful the existent quarter, and choky availability of RAM is apt forcing Apple to marque pugnacious concern decisions.

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