I am still on an Intel MB Air 2015…. was looking to upgrade to an M4 Mac mini but at £899, I will give it a miss. Will just get a refurbished M1 Mac Mini 16GB/512GB off eBay / CeX, should enough for me as (luckily) my computer needs are modest.
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New Mac Mini and Mac Studio: 13 Things You Might Have Missed
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Go price a workstation at Dell.
RAM and SSD's are stupidly expensive *everywhere*.
RAM and SSD's are stupidly expensive *everywhere*.
but do you? still on M1 Studio Ultra and doing just fine. only thing amiss is not being able to run 120Hz on the Studio Display XDR but doesn't bug me much
So very glad I bulked up on M4 series products fearing dumba$$'s tariffs back in late 24/early 25. One thing I grabbed was the M4 Mac mini with 24gb memory and 2tb ssd. Was going to cheap out and get base but thought "no, what if dumba$$ keeps dumba$$ing?" so got a step up. That cost me $1439. Today? $1919. Unreal. Looks like I'm holding onto everything M4 for a while. I know these price hikes aren't a direct result of dumba$$'s policies, the failure to regulate AI isn't helping.
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Base model storage in the mini at 256GB is criminal in 2026 , especially at these prices.
And no, the reason isnt AI entirely. Its Apple pushing to keep it's absolutely massive margins.
And no, the reason isnt AI entirely. Its Apple pushing to keep it's absolutely massive margins.
ThomasJL
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Tim Crook just had to throw in a few more extortionate price increases in his last week as CEO. He just couldn’t help himself.
johannnn
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Have you been living under a rock?
Go check the SSD and RAM prices
AI centers have made everything skyrocket
They came in a beautiful perspex plastic tower case from what I remember. I loved mine. Expensive at the time as well. Just over 2K I think I paid (UK)
If you “can” afford to pay, “but not at those prices”, that is just a roundabout way of saying you can’t afford to pay.
gorbag42
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That doesn't make any sense: either you can afford it at those prices, or your can't. Either it has value for you at that price, or it doesn't. Perhaps what you meant was that the value to *you* of the new machine doesn't justify the price. Others might come to a different conclusion, either because they see great value compared to what they have now (in my case, a 2020 iMac which will soon be unable to run the latest OS), or they aren't as price sensitive (a nice boat to be in).
gorbag42
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Fortunately, the old "classic" version is still available on Amazon for those who want to collect the very best
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Dell is a terrible comparison as they've become the huge rip-off company (compare to Apple) on the PC side. Their junk is ridiculously priced and their good stuff is unaffordable.
I bought an ASUS Zenbook A16 ARM laptop with 48GB RAM and 1TB SSD and 3K 120Hz OLED for less than $1500 2 months ago. Companies are riding the profit wave on the back of the RAMpocalypse and their quarterly earnings are skyrocketing.
