{"id":238474,"date":"2026-05-03T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:05:24","slug":"apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Increases Mac Mini Price After Removing 256 GB Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eteknix.com\/apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option\/\">Apple Increases Mac Mini Price After Removing 256 GB Option<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eteknix.com\/apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option\/\">https:\/\/www.eteknix.com\/apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 04:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eteknix.com\">www.eteknix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple has increased the starting price of the Mac Mini, and this change comes with another important decision: the company has removed the 256 GB storage option.<\/p>\n<p>Without any announcement, Apple quietly removed the 256 GB version of the Mac Mini with the M4 chip from its store. This is not just a temporary stock issue, but a clear change in its product lineup, which directly raises the base price of the device.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mac Mini Price Jumps as Apple Drops 256 GB Version<\/h2>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.eteknix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Apple-Increases-Mac-Mini-Price-After-Removing-256-GB-Option--scaled-png.webp\" alt=\"Apple Increases Mac Mini Price After Removing 256 GB Option\" class=\"wp-image-663990\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;object-fit:cover\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Before, users could buy a Mac Mini starting at 599 dollars. Now, the cheapest available version comes with 16 GB of unified memory and 512 GB of storage, and the price starts at 799 dollars. So even if users get more storage, the entry price has gone up by 200 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>This decision may be linked to supply problems and higher costs for memory components like NAND and DRAM. During a recent financial report, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio was higher than expected, which caused pressure on production.<\/p>\n<p>By removing the cheaper option, Apple simplifies its lineup and protects its profits, but it also pushes customers to buy more expensive versions. This can be a problem for users who were looking for a more affordable way to enter the Apple ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Apple has done something like this, as a similar move was made before with the Mac Studio. For users with a limited budget, this change means the Mac Mini is no longer the cheapest way to get Apple hardware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eteknix.com\/apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Increases Mac Mini Price After Removing 256 GB Option https:\/\/www.eteknix.com\/apple-increases-mac-mini-price-after-removing-256-gb-option\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-03 04:31:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.eteknix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mac-mini.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[53,54],"class_list":["post-238474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-mac-mini","tag-mac-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238474"}],"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=238474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238476,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238474\/revisions\/238476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}