'A Good Mac Studio is Hard to Find'

Stephen Hackett, at 512pixels.net:

It’s not just the Mac Studio; it’s easy to build a Mac mini that won’t ship until August. That is bad news if you need a new Mac desktop on short notice. These long delays are not impacting all Macs, though, as the iMac and notebooks seem to all have much better shipping dates.

I don’t need a new Mac desktop (mini or Studio) on short notice. I have, however, been looking for a Mac mini for Gobbler development. 95% of development is done on my MacBook Pro and I’ve tried to replicate the development environment on my gaming PC through Windows Subsystem for Linux. It’s close, but not the same.

Regardless, pricing up any Mac mini results in a delivery estimate way into the future. My thinking is that this is due to Apple running down what’s left of M4 stock with an M5 refresh delayed due to memory shortages.