2026-04-07 08:59:00
Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, used for AI and agentic tools, "may take several months to reach supply demand balance" (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/30/mac-studio-mac-mini-constrained-months/
Apple streicht kleinsten Mac mini aus dem Programm
Apples günstigster Mac mit 256-GByte-SSD wird nicht mehr angeboten. Damit steigt der Einstiegspreis für einen Desktop-Mac auf 949 Euro.
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Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Apple streicht kleinsten Mac mini aus dem Programm
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Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/01/mac-mini-now-starts-at-799/
Mac minis will soon be even harder to get: eGPU support now available for Apple Silicon. Seriously - this is the way to go: a Mac mini with 32 GB of RAM and an eGPU (or 4) is a perfect little setup without having to build a chonky boi PC.
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Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Apple streicht kleinsten Mac mini aus dem Programm
https://ww…
Suger på en 2,8% tallboy och lägger upp en webdav server på hemmaservern. Det är magiskt bad en mac mini från 2014 klarar idag. Lite ubuntu & en fräsh ssd gör verkligen susen
Mac mini price for lowest-end model is now 33% more than literally last week (starting at $799 now).
Thanks, AI!
So apparently Apple is now selling the Mac Mini under scalpers rules; had a client suprise me with 4 new hires, & I couldn’t buy 4 Mac Minis; I had to buy 1 Mac Mini at a time over 4 days. 😂
(Have machines on order via the Apple Business store to restock inventory, but they’re still 2 weeks out)
Mac mini und Mac Studio vergriffen: Apple gehen manche Macs aus
Speicherkrise, KI-Maxxing oder bevorstehende Upgrades: Beobachter rätseln, warum Apple manche Macs aktuell nicht mehr liefern kann.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116440656264396865
Base model Mac mini: 1½ months lead time
High-end Mac mini: 3 months lead time
Base model Mac Studio: 1 month lead time
High-end Mac Studio: entirely unavailable
It was easier to buy toilet paper during the height of COVID than to buy a Mac now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is anybody using, or considering using, ngscopeclient on an ARM64 platform?
Would Debian aarch64 be a platform worth adding to CI and officially supporting? I think I can probably run it as a VM on the mac mini.
But I'm not sure what's out there that actually has the GPU horsepower to perform well. Like, I think somebody tried to build it on a raspberry pi and it *worked* but I'm not sure how useful it would be on something so limited.
I tell ya what, it suddenly makes it sound a lot less urgent to replace my M1 Mac mini with an M5 one when you see the tests run in 0.000 seconds.
I mean, what could you possibly need more processor for? Maybe you just need *less* software.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116440656264396865
The base Mac mini in the Apple Store is now completely unavailable
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/22/base-mac-mini-sold-out-from-apple-online-store/
Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/app
Progress! Sorted out a bunch of permissions issues and I'm now able to (over SSH) clone a template VM on the mac mini and launch it.
Now to set up a script to actually run the test suite.
I've written more bash than any other language the last week or so and I don't like it lol. But it had to be done...
Perplexity baut „Personal Computer“ auf Mac-mini-Basis
Perplexity Computer nennt sich Perplexitys persönlicher Assistent. Der soll im OpenClaw-Stil nun auf den Mac kommen. Derzeit gibt es eine Warteliste.
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@… Frankly the only reason I’m considering replacing my M1 Mac Mini with a MBP is the form factor and the FOMO.
I’ve not once run into “ugh, I wish this computer was faster” since ordering it on launch (I *did* get 16 GB of memory FWIW).
AMD says its Mac Mini-sized Ryzen AI Halo PC starts at $3,999 with Ryzen AI Max 300 chips, for pre-order in June, and unveils AI Max 400 chips, available in Q3 (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2177687/amd-price
Great, I need a desktop computer and apparently it’s the worst time in years to buy a computer because AI hype.
Apple’s desktop stuff is basically unavailable (1-3 months lead time).
Anyway, does anyone in the US have maybe a M4 Mac mini lying around that I could buy so I can bridge the time to when Apple fixes their supply chain issue? DM me!
(Also, no, I won’t switch to Linux so no need to reply with that.)
Wow, I was speccing out a Mac Mini for a client and if I wanted to get more than 24GB RAM, it’s 10-12 WEEKS estimated delivery.
I played with it and there were configurations that wouldn’t ship until AUGUST.
🤯🤷🏻♀️