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 2d 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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David Lynch

@marcoarment I'm kind of surprised -- everyone seemed pretty excited about it at the time. I traded in my M1 mini for one, even (it was good timing, since the M1 still had a great value selling it back to Apple)...