Apple Stops Selling Mac Mini With 256GB of Storage, Starting Price Rises to $799
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Key Points:
- Apple has discontinued the 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally, raising the starting price of the desktop to $799 with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, up from the previous $599 starting price with 256GB storage.
- The 512GB base model remains priced at $799, but customers can no longer purchase a Mac mini at the $599 price point, as the lower storage option has been fully removed from Apple's configurator.
- Mac mini models with the M4 Pro chip continue to start with 512GB of storage, so their pricing remains unchanged.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged supply constraints for Mac mini and Mac Studio during a recent earnings call, attributing high demand to their suitability for AI and agentic tools, and noting that supply-demand balance may take several months.
- These configuration changes coincide with a global memory chip shortage and rising memory costs, driven by increased demand from AI server infrastructure, forcing Apple to make difficult product offering decisions.
