Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months

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Post by tosh » Fri, May 01, 2026, 6:20 AM UTC

Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
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Post by bottlepalm » Fri, May 01, 2026, 6:50 AM UTC

The Neo as well, I just need a Mac to test with and finding one is ridiculous. Hackintoshes are hell to setup and run like crap. I tried https://www.macincloud.com/ and that was a waste of time. Someone take my money.

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Post by wiradikusuma » Fri, May 01, 2026, 6:58 AM UTC

I guess the sudden demand is due to OpenClaw? But most people will still use cloud LLMs, right? Anything particular with the Mac Mini that non-Mac lack?

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Post by hurricanepootis » Fri, May 01, 2026, 6:58 AM UTC

bottlepalm wrote: post #2

The Neo as well, I just need a Mac to test with and finding one is ridiculous. Hackintoshes are hell to setup and run like crap. I tried https://www.macincloud.com/ and that was a waste of time. Someone take my money.

I remember 4 years ago I was able to setup MacOS in a virtual machine. Maybe you can setup an Intel copy of MacOS on a qemu/kvm virtual machine?

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Post by _the_inflator » Fri, May 01, 2026, 7:00 AM UTC

Apple got so bad with its products, so bad indeed that they took a bet on the low price sector with the Neo and abandoned the powerhouses. It is so funny, because due to the high profit margin as a relative share of the price Apple earns more by selling a few top models than with dozens of Neos.

Tim Cook, the supply chain master leaves house the moment the very reason why he got hired in the first place is in dire straits.

I don’t think that the successor will likely change that, since Cook made sure, no one is remembering Jobs anymore and as top manager won’t pass a reversal of many of his decisions.

So he will lead through a CEO he controls. Only if the new guy takes on the battle in the name of product there might be a chance but this would mean, Cook and the new CEO have to be dismissed. So popcorn times, I think Apple is going to stay as boring as it got, while the quality constantly declines.

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Post by montebicyclelo » Fri, May 01, 2026, 7:02 AM UTC

bottlepalm wrote: post #2

The Neo as well, I just need a Mac to test with and finding one is ridiculous. Hackintoshes are hell to setup and run like crap. I tried https://www.macincloud.com/ and that was a waste of time. Someone take my money.

Ever considered second hand slightly older gens? Even M1 is still great for many use cases. E.g. often corps are selling them on Ebay, in pretty good condition.

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Post by morphle » Fri, May 01, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

bottlepalm wrote: post #2

The Neo as well, I just need a Mac to test with and finding one is ridiculous. Hackintoshes are hell to setup and run like crap. I tried https://www.macincloud.com/ and that was a waste of time. Someone take my money.

If you send me an email I might have a machine or MacOS VM on that machine you can use.

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Post by scboffspring » Fri, May 01, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

bottlepalm wrote: post #2

The Neo as well, I just need a Mac to test with and finding one is ridiculous. Hackintoshes are hell to setup and run like crap. I tried https://www.macincloud.com/ and that was a waste of time. Someone take my money.

Not sure what happened to you with macincloud, but I used scaleway hosted Mac mini M1 a couple years ago for a self hosted CI server, and it was working very nicely.

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Post by znpy » Fri, May 01, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

wiradikusuma wrote: post #3

I guess the sudden demand is due to OpenClaw? But most people will still use cloud LLMs, right? Anything particular with the Mac Mini that non-Mac lack?

My understanding is that openclaw is only a factor, and a relatively minor one.

Most likely the limiting factor is the crunch that chip companies are going through.

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Post by morphle » Fri, May 01, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

montebicyclelo wrote: post #6

bottlepalm wrote: post #2

The Neo as well, I just need a Mac to test with and finding one is ridiculous. Hackintoshes are hell to setup and run like crap. I tried https://www.macincloud.com/ and that was a waste of time. Someone take my money.

Ever considered second hand slightly older gens? Even M1 is still great for many use cases. E.g. often corps are selling them on Ebay, in pretty good condition.

Indeed, ton's of refurbished for $250-$300