{"id":976445,"date":"2026-08-02T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/976445\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:03:24","slug":"if-youre-struggling-to-find-a-macbook-air-right-now-this-is-probably-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/976445\/","title":{"rendered":"If You’re Struggling to Find a MacBook Air Right Now, This Is Probably Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you head to your local Apple Store to get a basic, workhorse MacBook Air, you might find that the shelves for the most popular laptop in the Apple lineup are mysteriously empty. You might then find that the same is true in the Apple Store one town over. This isn\u2019t happening due to a rush of back-to-school shoppers in your area, according to an anonymously sourced report from Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman;<\/a> it\u2019s the latest retail symptom of the global memory shortage caused by the AI buildout.<\/p>\n

People started to notice the issue this past week. For instance, as one X user pointed out on Tuesday<\/a>, Apple back-to-school ads including the MacBook Air have started to include a \u201cMacBook Air subject to availability\u201d disclaimer.<\/p>\n

As we noted back in June<\/a>, Apple hiked the price of the M5 MacBook Air by $200, and that CEO Tim Cook said the memory shortage was like \u201ca hundred-year flood\u201d for his industry unlike anything he\u2019s seen in more than 40 years. Certain memory options for other Apple products have essentially been abolished by removing them<\/a> from the online Apple Store. But now, Bloomberg\u2019s sources with Apple Store knowledge say supplies of the MacBook Air are, as Gurman phrased it, \u201cmore constrained than they can ever recall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Try to buy a MacBook Air online and the earliest it will likely ship is toward the end of this month, with some versions delayed until early next month. When I tried to buy a basic MacBook Air just now, the site said it wouldn\u2019t arrive until the week of August 19-25.<\/p>\n

\"Macbook\u00a9 Apple \/ Gizmodo screenshot <\/p>\n

But when I tried to buy a basic iPad online, it said it would arrive on Tuesday, or I could pick it up today.<\/p>\n

Gurman\u2019s say this shortage \u201cis indeed tied to the ongoing memory crunch,\u201d and that one of Apple\u2019s attempts at a solution is to find Chinese memory it can use in the devices it plans to sell in China\u2014an effort he says is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you head to your local Apple Store to get a basic, workhorse MacBook Air, you might find…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":976446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[239,46987,372502,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-976445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macbook-air","tag-memory-shortage","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117027943535287776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}