{"id":24951,"date":"2026-05-01T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/24951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:15:09","slug":"mac-mini-starting-price-jumps-to-799-as-ai-demand-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/24951\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Mini Starting Price Jumps to $799 As AI Demand Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s &#8220;most affordable Mac&#8221; just got more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>\n                          Loading audio narration&#8230;\n                        <\/p>\n<p>The starting price for the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mac-mini-demand-soars-ai-ceo-tim-cook-2026-5\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mac Mini<\/a> jumped $200 this week as the company reported an AI-fueled increase in demand for the compact computer.<\/p>\n<p>The $599 base model with 256GB of storage, touted on the website as the &#8220;mini-est, most affordable Mac with mighty performance,&#8221; had disappeared from Apple&#8217;s site as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The website now says the starting price for a Mac Mini is $799, which comes with 512GB of storage. Earlier this week, the website listed the starting price as $599, the Internet Archive shows.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not an increase in price for the model that comes with 512GB of storage, it means the entry point for a Mac Mini is now higher.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, which did not respond to a request for comment, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-q2-earnings-tim-cook-john-ternus-iphone-mac-mini-2026-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> on its quarterly earnings call this week that it hasn&#8217;t been able to keep up with an AI-related clamor for the Mac Mini.<\/p>\n<p>The line got a boost in popularity earlier this year when tech enthusiasts sought them out to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-mac-mini-having-a-moment-openclaw-craze-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">use with OpenClaw<\/a>, an open-source, autonomous AI agent previously known as Clawdbot.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Tim Cook attributed the boost to the device&#8217;s abilities as a &#8220;amazing&#8221; platform for &#8220;AI and agentic tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The customer recognition of that is happening faster than what we had predicted,&#8221; Cook said on the call. &#8220;And so we saw higher-than-expected demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cook said it could take &#8220;several months&#8221; for supply to balance out with Mac Mini demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s &#8220;most affordable Mac&#8221; just got more expensive. 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