{"id":215016,"date":"2026-05-08T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/which-macs-are-suffering-from-shortages-and-where-are-things-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:00:27","slug":"which-macs-are-suffering-from-shortages-and-where-are-things-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/which-macs-are-suffering-from-shortages-and-where-are-things-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Macs are suffering from shortages\u2014and where are things getting worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Apple Macintosh is more than 40 years old, but it&#8217;s still going strong, and its recent success was significant enough that Apple CEO Tim Cook called it out during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/investor\/earnings-call\/\">the company\u2019s earnings call last week<\/a>. In particular, Cook credited the new low-cost MacBook Neo, which Apple says is attracting a fair number of new Mac buyers rather than simply prompting upgrades from previous customers.<\/p>\n<p>But Cook also noted that the Mac\u2019s success was being held back somewhat by \u201csupply constraints\u2026 on several Mac models,\u201d which was exacerbated by \u201cless flexibility in the supply chain\u201d than Apple was used to; the company also expects to pay \u201csignificantly higher\u201d prices for RAM than it has been so far. In other words, shortages of everything from RAM to storage to advanced chipmaking capacity are making it harder for Apple to produce as many Macs as it can sell.<\/p>\n<p>Sites that track Apple news currently post multiple times a month about Mac shortages,\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">noting each time Apple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/05\/05\/apple-mac-studio-mac-mini-ram-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removes a Mac mini model from its online store<\/a>\u00a0and religiously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/07\/macbook-neo-facing-3-week-delays-at-apple-heres-how-to-buy-one-sooner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting on <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/07\/macbook-neo-facing-3-week-delays-at-apple-heres-how-to-buy-one-sooner\/\">shipping estimates for the MacBook Neo<\/a>. But because those spot checks only account for Apple\u2019s inventory at a moment in time, I did <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/06\/one-last-look-at-software-support-as-macos-26-tahoe-winds-down-the-intel-mac-era\/\">what I sometimes do<\/a> when I want to back up vibes with empirical data: I made a big spreadsheet (the full thing is <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ars-Mac-Shipping-Times-May-2026.xlsx\">here<\/a>; only a few representative snippets appear in the article below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/05\/were-tracking-423-mac-configurations-to-see-how-apple-is-handling-shortages\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/05\/were-tracking-423-mac-configurations-to-see-how-apple-is-handling-shortages\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple Macintosh is more than 40 years old, but it&#8217;s still going strong, and its recent success was significant enough that Apple CEO Tim Cook called it out during the company\u2019s earnings call last week. In particular, Cook credited the new low-cost MacBook Neo, which Apple says is attracting a fair number of new Mac buyers rather than simply prompting upgrades from previous customers. 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