{"id":282058,"date":"2026-06-26T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/apple-price-increases-hit-australia-macbook-neo-ipad-and-mac-mini-prices-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:40:24","slug":"apple-price-increases-hit-australia-macbook-neo-ipad-and-mac-mini-prices-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/apple-price-increases-hit-australia-macbook-neo-ipad-and-mac-mini-prices-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple price increases hit Australia: MacBook Neo, iPad and Mac mini prices rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apple-price-hikes-have-hit-australia\">Apple price increases hit Australia: MacBook Neo, iPad and Mac mini prices rise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apple-price-hikes-have-hit-australia\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apple-price-hikes-have-hit-australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 00:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techradar.com\">www.techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"elk-185aea4d-2493-4226-af8b-2b801683fe2f\">\n<li><strong>Apple has raised prices across multiple categories in Australia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The MacBook Neo has lost some of its entry-level appeal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The move follows rising RAM and storage costs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-e14836a1-76ad-4e8d-8b7e-fea4aa797d33\">Australian shoppers looking for EOFY offers, or waiting for early Amazon Prime Day tech deals, now have another price shift to factor in. Apple has raised local prices across several major product categories, including the new MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, iPad range, Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini and more.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is awkward, but it also hasn&#8217;t come from nowhere. Apple has usually been better than most tech companies at absorbing supply chain pressure before it reaches shoppers, though the current RAM and component crunch has been dragging on for long enough to change that calculation.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-e14836a1-76ad-4e8d-8b7e-fea4aa797d33-2\">The warning signs came last month, when Tim Cook flagged &#8220;significantly higher memory costs&#8221; on an earnings call, then said RAM prices would &#8220;drive an increasing impact&#8221; on Apple products from this month.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-body__section\" id=\"section-australian-buyers-will-feel-this\"><span>Australian buyers will feel this<\/span><\/h3>\n<p id=\"elk-3336da38-8fd1-42fe-bce7-8e245c046c85\">One of the clearest examples is the new MacBook Neo, Apple&#8217;s lower-cost MacBook model and the machine most likely to appeal to students, or anyone trying to get a new Apple laptop for less than MacBook Air money. In Australia it launched with a price from AU$899. It now starts at AU$1,049, so it has lost some of its entry-level appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it\u2019s still Apple&#8217;s cheapest laptop, but the higher starting price makes it less competitive against Windows laptops that have been fighting to compete with the Neo. The 512GB model with Touch ID has also gone from AU$1,099 to AU$1,249.<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MacBook Air has lost some of its competitive edge, and the 13-inch model with the M5 chip (check out our MacBook Air 13-inch M5 review) has jumped from AU$1,799 to AU$2,099 to start.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-inch model is up by the same AU$300 amount, from AU$2,199 to AU$2,499. For a laptop that often sits in the middle of Apple&#8217;s consumer Mac range, that is a significant hit to its&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apple-price-hikes-have-hit-australia\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple price increases hit Australia: MacBook Neo, iPad and Mac mini prices rise https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/macbooks\/apple-price-hikes-have-hit-australia Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/4d4ypTdwRBdb2g2so2rgnd-2560-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[53,50],"class_list":["post-282058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-mac-mini","tag-macbook-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282058"}],"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=282058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282060,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282058\/revisions\/282060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}