Apple Stops Selling its $599 Mac Mini With 256GB of Storage

Apple has quietly stopped selling its entry-level M4 Mac Mini with 256GB of storage, which was priced at just $599, the same as the new entry-level MacBook Neo. As spotted by MacRumors, the cheapest Mac Mini is now the $799 model with the same M4 chip, but twice the storage.

With the 256GB Mac mini now unavailable, the MacBook Neo and the M4 iMac are now the only Mac models starting at 256GB of storage. The new M5 MacBook Air that Apple released last month comes with a minimum of 512GB instead of 256GB on the previous model. However, this storage upgrade made the MacBook Air $100 more expensive, with a $1,099 starting price for the 13-inch model.

Until the release of the MacBook Neo, the M4 Mac mini was the cheapest Mac model you could buy. The small desktop Mac had become a popular machine among AI enthusiasts interested in running AI models and agents locally. However, the Mac mini and the more powerful Mac Studio are currently in short supply due to increased demand and memory shortages.

“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,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call earlier this week. The exec also said during the call that the Mac Mini was the top-selling desktop in China, adding that both the Mac mini and Mac Studio “may take several months to reach supply-demand balance.”