{"id":235052,"date":"2026-04-24T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/apple-cant-seem-to-keep-mac-minis-in-stock-as-demand-heats-up\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:10:07","slug":"apple-cant-seem-to-keep-mac-minis-in-stock-as-demand-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/apple-cant-seem-to-keep-mac-minis-in-stock-as-demand-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Can&#8217;t Seem to Keep Mac Minis in Stock As Demand Heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-599-m4-mac-mini-sold-out-online-us-demand-2026-4\">Apple Can&#8217;t Seem to Keep Mac Minis in Stock As Demand Heats up<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-599-m4-mac-mini-sold-out-online-us-demand-2026-4\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-599-m4-mac-mini-sold-out-online-us-demand-2026-4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-24 05:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.businessinsider.com\">www.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple appears to be running out of Mac Minis.<\/p>\n<p>\n                          <span class=\"audio-player-label label-md-strong\">Loading audio narration&#8230;<\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>The $599 base model has sold out on the Apple website in the US. As of Thursday afternoon, any memory configuration of the M4 chip Mac Mini with the standard 256 gigabytes of storage was unavailable when Business Insider checked. Other models weren&#8217;t faring much better, with options for more storage quoting wait times of over one month.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, custom and higher-capacity configurations often take longer to ship.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Availability was hit-or-miss with third-party retailers. On Amazon, Business Insider found M4 Pro Mac Minis starting with 512 gigabytes of storage for $1,369, with a wait of less than a month. On Best Buy&#8217;s website, all Mac Mini models appeared to be unavailable or sold out. On eBay, some pre-owned models were listed for $200 above retail price.<\/p>\n<p>The dwindling supply comes as artificial intelligence companies demand more memory chips, which is also affecting the consumer electronics market. It&#8217;s driving up costs in some cases and limiting availability in others. Outgoing CEO Tim Cook fielded questions from analysts about increasing memory prices during a January earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>The Mac Mini could also be suffering from its own success. Tech enthusiasts have been all about OpenClaw, a rapidly evolving, open-source AI tool that can run locally on a computer, fueling demand for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-599-m4-mac-mini-sold-out-online-us-demand-2026-4\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Can&#8217;t Seem to Keep Mac Minis in Stock As Demand Heats up https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-599-m4-mac-mini-sold-out-online-us-demand-2026-4 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69ea5abea98bc8fdc096e06f?width=1200&format=jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-235052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-mac-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235054,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235052\/revisions\/235054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}