{"id":80529,"date":"2026-04-20T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/report-says-memory-shortage-could-delay-release-of-new-macs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:03:06","slug":"report-says-memory-shortage-could-delay-release-of-new-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/report-says-memory-shortage-could-delay-release-of-new-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Says Memory Shortage Could Delay Release of New Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-Mac-Studio-side-light-1280x853.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Highly anticipated upgrades to Apple\u2019s Mac computer models are reportedly hitting delays caused by an ongoing memory shortage brought about by the proliferation of AI, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gurman\u2019s anonymous Apple insiders apparently say delays are \u201cplausible\u201d for the new Mac Studio, Apple\u2019s powerful, professional-grade desktop computer, as well as slowing down the release of a potential touchscreen-enabled MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The upgraded Studio was reportedly going to come out \u201caround the middle of the year\u201d\u2014meaning summer, presumably, but Gurman says Apple is now looking at an October release. Meanwhile, the touchscreen Mac may not debut until next year, Gurman indicates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The MacBook Neo, a new, entry-level Apple notebook computer has been <span class=\"s1\">a huge hit<\/span>, and has so far appeared to avoid being impacted by the shortage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The memory shortage has been wreaking havoc on prices. A fresh $100 price hike of the Quest 3 headset was <span class=\"s1\">because of the RAM shortage<\/span><span class=\"s1\">,<\/span> according to Meta. Some Microsoft Surface devices had their prices increased by <span class=\"s1\">as much as $500<\/span> because of \u201crecent increases in memory and component costs.\u201d The Raspberry Pi\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">became up to $150<\/span>\u00a0more expensive earlier in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Analysts say the price of memory may not level off until next year, or possibly 2028.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly anticipated upgrades to Apple\u2019s Mac computer models are reportedly hitting delays caused by an ongoing memory shortage brought about by the proliferation of AI, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman. Gurman\u2019s anonymous Apple insiders apparently say delays are \u201cplausible\u201d for the new Mac Studio, Apple\u2019s powerful, professional-grade desktop computer, as well as slowing down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Apple-Mac-Studio-side-light-1200x675.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}