Overview
- Apple’s online store, updated Tuesday, now caps Mac Studio at 96GB of unified memory and the M4 Pro Mac mini at 48GB, with many builds showing 9–10 week delivery windows.
- The 256GB Mac mini was dropped last week, raising the starting price to $799 in the U.S. and $1,099 in Canada with a new 512GB base.
- CEO Tim Cook told investors the Mac mini and Mac Studio could take several months to reach supply‑demand balance and warned of rising memory costs.
- Suppliers have shifted factories toward high‑bandwidth memory for AI servers, pushing DRAM contract prices up sharply and leaving less standard RAM and flash for consumer Macs.
- Shoppers now face fewer configuration choices and longer waits, and some higher‑memory MacBooks are also slipping to multi‑week delivery, showing the squeeze is spreading.