The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

The planetary representation spot shortage is affecting the availability of Apple’s astir fashionable Mac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Gurman said the shortage — caused by the demands of chip-hungry AI companies — had already affected Apple’s much niche computers, the Mac mini and Mac Studio. But it seems the institution is present struggling to support the MacBook Air successful stock, with retailers saying that proviso seems to beryllium much constrained than ever before.

Indeed, anyone trying to bargain a MacBook Air from the Apple website volition person to hold until the backmost fractional of August — oregon for definite configurations, until September.

Gurman says Apple is moving to code the contented by raising prices and sourcing representation from Chinese suppliers. Meanwhile, the institution delayed its latest back-to-school promotion from June. And for the archetypal time, the selling worldly is much focused connected the basal exemplary of the MacBook Pro. It adjacent warns, “MacBook Air taxable to availability.”