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Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops have been increasingly difficult to buy<\/a> over the course of the year\u2014multiple configurations are listed on Apple’s site as “currently unavailable,” which almost never happens, and others will take weeks or months to ship if you order them today. A top-end version of the Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM was delisted from Apple’s store entirely<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, the $599 entry-level Mac mini has also been removed from Apple’s store. The cheapest Mac mini you can currently order from Apple costs $799, which gets you an M4 chip, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t technically a price hike; Apple has charged the same amount for these specs since launching the M4 Mac mini in late 2024. But now that the basic model with 256GB of storage has apparently been discontinued, it\u2019s no longer possible to buy a Mac mini for its original $599 starting price unless you can find stock left over at some third-party retailer somewhere.<\/p>\n

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