Apple Says Mac Mini and Mac Studio Are in Short Supply Due to AI Boom

Apple says its Mac mini and Mac Studio will be in short supply for many months as both machines are in high demand due to the AI boom. During Apple’s Q2 2026 earnings call yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained that these two Mac models have become really popular among AI developers.

Speaking about Apple’s forecast for the June quarter, Tim Cook said that “the primary constraint is the availability of the advanced nodes our SoCs are produced on, not memory.” The exec added that “it’ll take several months to reach supply/demand balance” for the Mac Studio and the Mac mini.

“Both of these are amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools, and the customer recognition of that is happening faster than what we had predicted, and so we saw higher than expected demand,” Cook said. The Mac mini currently starts at $599 for the base M4 model with 16GB of memory, while the base M4 Pro version with 24GB of memory starts at $1,399. Later on in the call, Cook also said that the Mac Mini was the top-selling desktop in China,

As for the Mac Studio, it currently starts at $1,999 for the M4 Max chip model, and there’s also an M3 Ultra model starting at $3,999. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman previously reported that a new version of the Mac Studio, initially expected in the middle of the year, could be delayed by several months due to chip shortages.

In addition to the Mac mini and Mac Studio, Tim Cook said that Apple is also seeing higher-than-expected demand for its new entry-level MacBook Neo. “The customer response to Mac Neo has just been off the charts, with higher than expected demand, and the March quarter record for customers, we set a March quarter record for customers new to the Mac, partly due to the Neo,” the exec said.