{"id":2501,"date":"2026-05-01T18:51:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:15:05","slug":"apple-discontinues-base-mac-mini-now-starts-at-799-with-512gb-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/apple-discontinues-base-mac-mini-now-starts-at-799-with-512gb-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple discontinues base Mac mini, now starts at $799 with 512GB storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ASUS-ProArt-6K-Display-Review-single-Thunderbolt-cable-Mac-mini.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last week, the base model $599 Mac mini with 256GB went <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/22\/more-mac-mini-out-of-stock\/\">completely out of stock<\/a> at the Apple Store. After extended delays, Apple updated the shipping estimates to simply say \u201ccurrently unavailable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Apple has taken the next step: the base model $599 Mac mini is no longer listed on its website at all. It has effectively been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,mac-mini\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1050590\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/05\/01\/apple-discontinues-base-mac-mini-now-starts-at-799-with-512gb-storage\/#more-1050590\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the base model $599 Mac mini with 256GB went completely out of stock at the Apple ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2503,"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\/2501"}],"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=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}