{"slug": "apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price-amid-rising-memory-costs", "title": "Apple Hikes M4 Pro Mac Mini Starting Price Amid Rising Memory Costs", "summary": "Apple raised the starting price of the M4 Pro Mac Mini by $200 to $1,599, citing rising memory and storage chip costs driven by AI data center demand. The company also increased prices across Mac and iPad lines by 15-25%.", "body_md": "Apple today increased the starting price of the Mac mini with M4 Pro chip by $200, taking the [higher-tier model](https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini/m4-pro-chip-12-core-cpu-16-core-gpu-24gb-memory-512gb-storage) up to $1,599 on its online store.\n\nWhen the M4 Pro model launched in October 2024, the starting price was $1,399, but Apple has been hit by the rapid expansion of AI data centres, which has driven up the demand for memory and storage chips across the tech industry.\n\nApple had already raised the Mac mini's effective starting price in May by discontinuing the $599 configuration with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, leaving the $799 model with a 512GB SSD as the new entry-level option.\n\n\"We have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices,\" Apple said in a statement given to [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-by-200-or-more-on-some-models-a7463f99). \"We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,\" it added.\n\nApple briefly took down its online store earlier today as it typically does when announcing new products. But when it came back online, the price tags for Mac computers rose roughly 15 percent to 20 percent and iPad prices rose 15 percent to 25 percent. Apart from the price hikes, there were no other changes to the site.\n\nThis article, \"[Apple Hikes M4 Pro Mac Mini Starting Price Amid Rising Memory Costs](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price/)\" first appeared on [MacRumors.com](https://www.macrumors.com)\n\n[Discuss this article](https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price-amid-rising-memory-costs.2484529/) in our forums", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price-amid-rising-memory-costs", "canonical_source": "https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price/", "published_at": "2026-06-25 13:10:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 13:17:19.424593+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips"], "entities": ["Apple", "Mac Mini", "M4 Pro", "MacRumors", "The Wall Street Journal"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price-amid-rising-memory-costs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price-amid-rising-memory-costs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price-amid-rising-memory-costs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-hikes-m4-pro-mac-mini-starting-price-amid-rising-memory-costs.jsonld"}}