May we have some follow-up to our Mac Mini, Mac Studio discussion from last week, where at the time we said select models of the higher-end Mac Studio and Mac Mini configurations were just super back-ordered, like eight to 12 weeks, 10 to 12 weeks for some of the higher RAM options specifically.

Then you spotted over the weekend that Apple has kind of waved the white flag altogether,

and some of those are now just listed as currently unavailable. So they don't even want to

take your order. Yeah, it's gone from out of stock to completely out of stock, because you

literally cannot order, not every single model of Mac Mini Mac Studio, but more than you'd think,

right? I think if you want a Mac with more,

a desktop Mac with more than 128 gigs of RAM, you literally can't buy one at the moment from Apple. Because the M4 Mac Mini, so the base M4, this is the biggest thing that kind of motivated me to write the story up was the base MacMini with the M4 chip, not the M4 Pro chip, but the base at Mac Mini M4 with 32 gigs of RAM, you now cannot order.

So it's currently unavailable.

Also, the Mac Mini with M4 Pro and 64 gigs of RAM is currently unavailable.

And then on the Mac Studio side, obviously they removed the 512 gigabyte RAM option from the website

a couple of weeks ago.

Well, now the 256 gigabyte RAM option is unavailable to order. It's not

removed from the website yet. It just says currently unavailable. And additionally, the M4 Max

Mac Studio with 128 gigs of RAM is also now completely unavailable to order. When the 512 gig

M3 Ultra one disappeared, just before it did for a couple of days, they put the currently unavailable status on it, which I guess means they really don't have any stock at all or have any plans to build them.

So I was wondering if they were going to do that with these, but the story's been out for a good five days now.

And so far, they're still listed on the website as currently unavailable.

The only reason I could see them not making, especially the Max Judy is a bit of a higher tier niche, right? But the base Mac Mini, M4, are they just never going to make any more M4 Mac Minis with 32 gigabytes of RAM? That seems kind of wild unless they're going to announce like a M5 refresh in the next what month. I don't know. Well, I mean, the estimates for some of them are just so back ordered, like 10 to 12 weeks.

That's three months from now.

Yeah. Which puts you at mid, what, mid June, June 15th, roughly. I feel like there's just a threshold. Once they say they can't get you on within 10 or 12 weeks, it's like, all right, now we stop taking orders because they know that they do have an update coming at some point and they don't want to have to go through the logistics of saying, all right, you ordered this machine, but with the M5 update, you can't get this configuration. Do you want to switch to this configuration? It's balancing, satisfying existing demand while also acknowledging that, yes, there's a new version coming.

And I think right now they literally are just throwing in the towel on some of these M4 configurations

because it logistically just does not make sense to keep accepting these orders.

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