Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’

Apple CEO Tim Cook said connected the company’s net telephone connected Thursday that it could instrumentality “several months” to conscionable skyrocketing request for the Mac Mini, the company’s compact but mighty, screen-free desktop computer. Cook’s remarks travel aft coders determined successful caller months that the Mac Mini was the cleanable instrumentality for agentic AI tasks.

“On the Mac Mini and Mac Studio, some of these are astonishing platforms for AI and agentic tools,” Cook said connected the net call, successful effect to expert questions. “And lawsuit adoption of that is happening faster than we expected.”

The quality comes amid different record-setting 4th for the company. iPhone income came up shorter than expected, though request for the iPhone 17 has been ace high, and Apple’s subscription services concern has continued to grow.

Apple faced proviso constraints connected both the iPhone and the Mac merchandise enactment this quarter. iPhone shortages are being driven mostly by a constricted proviso of the precocious chips that powerfulness the phones. But arsenic Cook made clear, astatine slightest 2 antithetic factors are driving shortages successful Apple’s Mac business: The accelerated adoption of generative AI and unexpected request for the company's new, colorful, and much affordable MacBook Neo laptop.

Mac income are typically a fraction of what iPhone income are—$8.4 cardinal this quarter, compared to astir $57 cardinal successful income of the iPhone—and the Mac Mini, specifically, is simply a fraction of that. But with the motorboat of OpenClaw earlier this year, an open-source AI tool, Mac Minis began flying disconnected the shelves due to the fact that they connection some capable powerfulness and a dedicated computing situation for agentic AI tasks.

Some anxious customers person already been waiting months for their Mac Minis. MacRumors reported successful aboriginal March that Apple had stopped selling a configuration of the machine that included 512 GB of memory. As of past week, the basal exemplary of Mac Mini was wholly sold out.

Cook, and his soon-to-be-successor John Ternus, besides addressed Cook’s modulation retired of the CEO relation aboriginal this year. Cook said connected the net telephone that it’s the “right moment” to measurement into the enforcement president relation for a “number of reasons,” including that Apple is well-positioned financially and that its upcoming merchandise roadworthy representation is “incredible.” He called Ternus a “person of singular quality and a calved leader.”

Ternus past joined the telephone for a infinitesimal to vouch for Cook arsenic a concern person and to guarantee investors he’d instrumentality a likewise deliberate and thoughtful attack successful starring the company. He, too, mentioned the company’s roadworthy map.

Both men were scant connected details astir this supposedly precise breathtaking merchandise roadworthy map, but hopefully, it includes much … roadworthy Macs.