US EditionApple Raises Mac Mini’s Starting Price as AI Frenzy Drains Supply
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Apple kills $599 Mac Mini as AI data centre DRAM demand drives record 90% memory price surge and global shortage.
Apple has discontinued the 256 gigabyte Mac Mini worldwide. The company’s cheapest desktop computer, the M4 Mac Mini with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage, was available for $599 until last week. It is gone. The Mac Mini now starts at $799 with 512 gigabytes of storage. The 256 gigabyte configuration has […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Mac mini is charged $599. It's the little grey box that no one was looking at in the Apple Store. The one we bought for the kitchen or for the grandparents. In 2026, it became one of the most requested machines on the tech planet. And Apple had nothing for that. OpenClaw, the software that [...]
Apple's Mac mini, which it touted as its "most affordable Mac," has effectively seen a price increase. This appears to be largely due to the AI boom.
Apple has discontinued the entry-level model of the M4 Mac mini, raising the starting price to €829. Rising component costs and Apple's premium strategy explain this decision. The Mac mini is in high demand for AI-related applications, often making the more powerful models unavailable.
Since Apple has taken the smallest model out of the program because of the memory crisis, the entry into the world of the Mac Mini becomes much more expensive.
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