If you were waiting to renew your Mac mini or your Mac Studio, the news is not exactly good. According to the revelations of Trace Gurman, Apple would be seeing how the memory crisis is delaying several of its most anticipated Macs, including the desktop models and the MacBook Expert with a touch screen and OLED panel.
The RAM shortage is already moving Apple’s calendar
What’s happening with Apple is not a simple inventory blip, but an uncomfortable mix of memory shortagerising costs and brutal pressure on the supply chain. This is because the crisis affects both RAM and storage, and that Apple would even be absorbing part of the extra cost by reducing margins so as not to completely pass it on to the user.
The problem is that this is not enough to guarantee timely launches. Gurman points out that Mac mini and Mac Studio planned for this year may not arrive in the short term and that its launch window would move until October, something that fits with the exact tension of the memory market.
What Gurman said about the Mac mini and Mac Studio
The first strong revelation is that Apple would not only have problems supplying units, but also the mac mini and the mac studio They would be in full generation transition. The Mac mini has M4 and M4 Expert chips, while the Mac Studio has M4 Max and M3 Ultra, so a renewal with M5 seemed logical.
But Gurman would have cooled down that scenario quite a bit. Instead of seeing those teams soon, there is now talk of a possible delay until October, meaning that there would be no new desktop Macs in the coming weeks except last minute surprise. In practice, this leaves those who wanted to renew a compact Mac or a professional computer with a fairly clear feeling: it’s time to be patient.
Furthermore, the context helps to understand why there is so much concern. Other sources cited in the coverage point out that some configurations with a lot of RAM are disappearing from stock or do not have a delivery date at all, something that points to a specific bottleneck in memory availability.
The touch and OLED MacBook Expert is not saved either
The other big bomb is the MacBook Expert with touch screen and OLED panel. This equipment has been sounding like one of Apple’s great redesigns for some time, with a more ambitious proposal than the exact MiniLED range and with the great novelty of integrating touch for the first time on a Mac.
For a time it seemed that Apple had managed to secure the supply of screens and that the laptop could arrive in 2026. However, Gurman now cools that idea again and drops that a delay until 2027 is more likelyagain because of the memory crisis.
Of course, the project does not disappear. The idea would still be to launch a more advanced MacBook Expert, with OLED and subtle touch controls, without turning it into an iPad with a keyboard or adding support for Apple Pencil. The bottom line is pretty clear: Apple wants to do it, but the calendar no longer seems as versatile as before.
What changes for the user
For the user who was waiting to buy, the conclusion is simple: If you need a Mac now, it doesn’t seem like a good idea to count on an imminent renewal. The Mac mini and Mac Studio could take longer than expected, and the touch/OLED MacBook Expert, which sounded like a great end-of-year novelty, also risks moving to 2027.
This has a curious effect on the market. On the one hand, current equipment is still very powerful; On the other hand, the feeling of “I’ll wait for the next one” becomes more risky when Apple begins to delay plans due to external factors. And in this case we are not talking about a minor rumor, but rather a memory crisis that is already affecting the launch rate of the entire industry.
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