Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/

26•thm•56m ago

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ceejayoz•27m ago

Time to bring back the Xserves, I guess.

taskoutputs2k•24m ago

just a real bummer that they raised the prices so much

AlexandrB•20m ago

I suspect it can't be helped at this point. RAM is the new gold. Valve even had to increase the price for a 4 year old piece of hardware[1].

[1] https://tech-insider.org/ca/steam-deck-price-increase-2026/

snarkyturtle•19m ago

It definitely puts it out of the range of every day users but a non-insignificant proportion of people who use it for ai have become multi-millionaires because of ai. So there's definitely no shortage of people who have no problem paying those high prices.

noman-land•16m ago

Citation needed.

lenerdenator•17m ago

Please address all complaints to the Office of CEO, Open AI, 123 Main Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 94158.

Your letter will help feed the boiler that heats the building and is much appreciated.

compounding_it•20m ago

More customers is generally a good problem to have in most businesses. Just that the situation is very paradoxical given the supply shortages.

comrade1234•15m ago

I wish they sold something that could go in a colo - redundant power supplies, lights out management, etc. you know they have them internally...

dewey•12m ago

> you know they have them internally...

What makes you think that? There's a lot of data centers that sell you access to colocated Mac Mini's, they have added FileVault unlock via SSH in the boot process which also makes things easier. There's not that many reasons to run a Mac in the cloud unless you have some very specific Mac related workload.

scrlk•3m ago

Apple built internal M5 servers for private cloud compute:

https://wccftech.com/apples-private-cloud-compute-server-m5-...

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

paxys•9m ago

I really hope with Ternus taking the helm Apple starts to remember that it has products outside of iPhone.

hzwanip•4m ago

Off guard? :'D

setgree•2m ago

It's fun to see that even an extremely large company can find an unexpected product market fit: "The company reportedly did not possess an engineering team dedicated to business customers or staff focused on developer relations, and lacked an enterprise AI strategy." In retrospect this sounds insane, but you don't really know what people are going to do with your products until you release them.

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