Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bealex/116297678513693440

I'm guessing:

- The M5 Mac Mini hasn't shipped yet because the Texas factory isn't ready yet

- Tons of people bought them in the last two months to run AI agents, and Apple's manufacturing estimates weren't prepared for the spike

- The highest-RAM configurations are even more squeezed by memory shortages

(Although the M5 MBP can be ordered with max RAM with an estimate of April 8–15. But that's probably different RAM, and in a product that Apple makes in greater and more predictable volume.)

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Marco Arment 1d ago

Apple was cutting Mac Mini prices through reseller discounting all last summer and fall. One might conclude that the M4 Mac Mini wasn't a particularly strong hit.

And then OpenClaw happened.

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Graeme K

@marcoarment Only the base config. The Air base config is always on sale for discounts too; I think that’s just their standard practice now. My wife’s M3 Air was $750 at Amazon when it was the current model at a base price of $1099.