{"id":2228,"date":"2026-03-07T22:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:15:35","slug":"apples-upcoming-mac-desktops-may-cost-more-but-not-for-the-reason-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/apples-upcoming-mac-desktops-may-cost-more-but-not-for-the-reason-you-might-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s upcoming Mac desktops may cost more, but not for the reason you might think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mac-studio-mini-m5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, Apple unveiled a plethora of new Macs with M5 chips \u2013 and it revealed an interesting new trend. More base storage, but at slightly higher prices. This impacted the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, M4 versions of the Mac mini, Mac Studio, and iMac still remain with their old pricing lineup \u2013 but that\u2019s likely to change with the M5 lineup.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,opinion\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1042594\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/07\/apple-m5-mac-mini-mac-studio-imac-might-get-more-expensive\/#more-1042594\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Apple unveiled a plethora of new Macs with M5 chips \u2013 and it revealed an interesting ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}