{"id":624768,"date":"2026-04-24T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624768\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:07:14","slug":"why-are-the-mac-mini-and-mac-studio-gradually-becoming-impossible-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624768\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are the Mac mini and Mac Studio gradually becoming impossible to buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a good time to be in the market for a MacBook, between the affordability of the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/apple-macbook-neo-review-can-a-mac-get-by-with-an-iphones-processor-inside\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Neo<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/testing-apples-2026-16-inch-macbook-pro-m5-max-and-its-new-performance-cores\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">power of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros<\/a>, and the all-around appeal of <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/m5-macbook-air-review-still-the-best-macbook-for-almost-everybody\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the M5 MacBook Air<\/a>. But Apple\u2019s desktop computers are another story, and not\u00a0just because they\u2019re all about due for their own M5 upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few months, the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2024\/11\/review-m4-and-m4-pro-mac-minis-are-probably-apples-best-mac-minis-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mac mini<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/03\/m4-max-and-m3-ultra-mac-studio-review-a-weird-update-but-it-mostly-works\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Studio<\/a> have gradually become harder to buy. The 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio was <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/apples-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgement-of-the-ram-shortage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">removed from Apple\u2019s website<\/a>, and other models of both desktops have seen their ship times slip from days to weeks to months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/04\/11\/some-mac-mini-mac-studio-currently-unavailable\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In the last couple of weeks<\/a>, several other configurations of Mac mini and Studio have begun showing up as \u201ccurrently unavailable\u201d on Apple\u2019s website, which virtually never happens even when Apple is planning an imminent hardware refresh.<\/p>\n<p>This week (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/04\/22\/base-mac-mini-sold-out-from-apple-online-store\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as spotted by MacRumors<\/a>), the baseline $599 M4 Mac mini, which offers 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, earned the \u201ccurrently unavailable\u201d label for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>You can still place orders for most Mac mini models. An M4 Mac mini with 512GB or more of storage and either 16 or 24GB of RAM will take between 5 and 12 weeks to arrive, depending on the specific configuration you buy. M4 Pro Mac minis with any storage configuration and either 24GB or 48GB of RAM will take a similar amount of time to arrive, with most models showing availability within 10 to 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>All M4 Mac minis with 256GB of storage, all M4 minis with 32GB of RAM, and all M4 Pro Mac minis with 64GB of RAM are listed as \u201ccurrently unavailable.\u201d Mac Studio models with 128GB or 256GB of RAM are also listed as \u201ccurrently unavailable.\u201d Other Studio configurations list the same five- to 12-week wait times as the minis.<\/p>\n<p>This does not seem to be an issue specific to the M4 chip generation; most M4 iMac configurations, including those with 32GB of RAM, will arrive at your door within a week or two of being ordered. It\u2019s also not being caused exclusively by ongoing RAM and shortage storages\u2014new MacBook Pros with 128GB of RAM and large SSDs will arrive within two or three weeks of being ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a good time to be in the market for a MacBook, between the affordability of the MacBook&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-624768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}