Buy a computer mac mini either mac studio It’s getting harder and harder. Not only because certain configurations appear on the website of Apple in Spain as ‘not available at this time’ or with shipments within four or five monthsbut because the company is reducing the catalog. A high-end version of Mac Studio with 512GB RAM It was already completely removed from the Apple store and now the same thing has happened with the Mac mini with 256GB storageas reported by MacRumors. Thus, what was Apple’s cheapest computer until the launch of the MacBook Neo and was available from €719 in Spain, it costs €969with 512 GB of storage, M4 processor and 16 GB of RAM.
The withdrawal of the previous base model has come a day after Apple CEO, Tim Cookstated during the presentation of quarterly results that Chip shortage will affect your Mac products in the coming months. That is, even more.
‘Looking ahead to June, the majority of our supply constraints will be on various Mac models. We believe that, going forward, The Mac mini and Mac Studio could take several months to reach the balance between supply and demand‘ said Cook. He added that both devices also recorded a ‘demand higher than expected’with many people purchasing the device to use with AI agents like OpenClaw.
Technically, this is not a price increase since Apple has charged the same for the 512 GB configuration since the launch of the Mac mini with M4 in late 2024. However, The last time the starting price of the Mac mini was this high was in 2018when the latest version of the desktop based on Intel. The base price of the device had been falling since Apple began using its own M series chips. In Spain, first 799 euros in the version with M1 and then to 719 euros with M2. The iteration with M4 increased the initial amount of RAM from 8GB to 16GB, making the entry model more future-proof.
According to published information, a new version of the Mac mini with M5 will arrive at the end of this year and Its starting price could be anywhere between $599, what the Mac mini M4 with 256 GB cost in the United States, and $799, the price it starts at now.depending on its specifications and how much Apple is paying then for memory and storage chips.
Apple also discontinued the 256 GB versions of the device earlier this year. Macbook Air when it presented the new models with M5. In the United States, it raised the starting price of the MacBook Air with M5 by $100, while in Spain it was kept at 1,199 euros despite doubling the base storage to 512 GB.
Cook did not specify which components were causing the Mac mini and Mac Studio shortages, although he did say that overall, the ‘availability of the advanced (manufacturing) nodes where our SoCs are produced’ was limited, and that ‘we have less flexibility in the supply chain than we normally would have.’ In other words, for Apple It has become more difficult to go to TSMC and order more chips because the Taiwanese company does not have spare manufacturing capacity. Cook said these restrictions They ‘mainly’ affect the iPhone, although they also impact the Mac ‘to a lesser extent’.