{"id":874,"date":"2026-01-25T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:48:59","slug":"will-apple-be-raising-its-memory-prices-with-upcoming-mac-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/will-apple-be-raising-its-memory-prices-with-upcoming-mac-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Apple be raising its memory prices with upcoming Mac releases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mac-mini-FI.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Across the computing industry, computer memory (both in the form of RAM and flash storage) has only been getting <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/30\/apple-better-positioned-than-rivals-2026-notebook-shipments\/\">more and more expensive <\/a>\u2013 largely due to supply shortages caused by AI datacenter buildout. Memory prices have up to quadrupled in recent months, and it\u2019s likely going to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the question: will Apple be adjusting its own memory prices?<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,mac\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1036475\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/01\/25\/apple-mac-memory-price-increase-possible-analysis-comparison\/#more-1036475\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the computing industry, computer memory (both in the form of RAM and flash storage) has only been getting more and more expensive \u2013 largely due to supply shortages caused by AI datacenter buildout. Memory prices have up to quadrupled in recent months, and it\u2019s likely going to worsen. That leaves the question: will Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}