{"id":239022,"date":"2026-05-04T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:35:07","slug":"apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple effectively raises Mac Mini starting price by discontinuing base model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model\">Apple effectively raises Mac Mini starting price by discontinuing base model<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model\">https:\/\/news.az\/news\/apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 14:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.az\">news.az<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Apple has increased the entry-level price of the Mac Mini by $200 without officially changing the price tags of its remaining configurations. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The shift occurred after Apple quietly removed the $599 entry-level model\u2014which featured a 256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM\u2014from its online store. As a result, the 512GB storage variant, previously a mid-tier option priced at $799, has become the new &#8220;base&#8221; model for the compact desktop,\u00a0News.Az reports, citing Extreme Tech.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The decision follows an earnings call where CEO Tim Cook highlighted &#8220;higher-than-expected demand&#8221; for the Mac Mini and Mac Studio, driven largely by their popularity for running local AI and agentic tools. Analysts suggest that by cutting the lower-margin 256GB version, Apple is managing a global shortage of high-performance memory chips. While the newer, budget-friendly MacBook Neo remains available at a $599 starting price, the removal of the cheapest Mac Mini significantly raises the barrier to entry for the Mac desktop ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>News.Az\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Leyla  \u015eirinova\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple effectively raises Mac Mini starting price by discontinuing base model https:\/\/news.az\/news\/apple-effectively-raises-mac-mini-starting-price-by-discontinuing-base-model Publish Date: 2026-05-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.az\/photos\/2026\/05\/hero-image-1777919026.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[53,54],"class_list":["post-239022","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\/239022"}],"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=239022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239024,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239022\/revisions\/239024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}