Apple's $599 Mac mini is gone, with AI agent demand cited as the cause
Apple quietly raised the Mac mini's starting price to $799 after developer demand for local AI agent infrastructure cleared existing inventory of the entry-level model. The price move is a concrete data point on hardware pressure created by the agentic AI boom and the trend toward running AI workloads locally.
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