If you were hoping for some relief from the RAM pricing crisis, April hasn't delivered on that front. Actually, there is a caveat attached here, in that there has been one more positive development of late – although it has a sizable sting in the tail, as we'll see later. But before that – and sorry to do this to you – we must wade through the quagmire of negative news that's been a running theme this month.
In fact, we only need to focus on the past week to see multiple developments that underline just how bad things have got with the RAM situation. Previously, we've heard about stock shortages of the Mac mini (and Mac Studio) theorized to be down to the lack of RAM supply, and then on Wednesday, the base model of the Mac mini completely sold out on Apple's online store. That's the M4 model with only 16GB of RAM, whereas before, it was the versions more heavily loaded with system memory which were (understandably) in trouble.
