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It feels like the equivalent of buying a stock at its lowest ever point and then later selling it all at the highest it’ll ever be. Apple had a supply chain buffer far beyond anything any other tech manufacturer could dream of, but it seems Apple is reaching the end of it. The RAM prices might not let up for years, and even Apple is no longer immune. I think it’s reasonable to assume a good machine with 16GB RAM will not be available to buy new for $500 for a very very long time from any company.

Maybe I’m being overdramatic, but it feels like a “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” moment. Yes, you can spend more to get something awesome, but it feels like we were (re-)entering a new beautiful era of affordable high-end computing that has now been ripped away from us, and the base M4 mini was its last whisper.