India, May 4 -- The Mac mini M4 is no longer available for purchase directly through Apple's store in India. This change in availability raised the official desktop pricing of the Mac from Rs.59,900 to Rs.79,900, resulting in a noticeable impact on customers who may be purchasing a new Mac for the first time or for those who are typically purchasing for students, developers, and smaller studios. The removed configuration offered an M4 chip with 16GB of unified memory and 256GB of SSD storage. In contrast, the current entry model contains 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage.

Apple hasn't disclosed a formal discontinuation of the M4 chip. Therefore, one should view this simply as an adjustment to Apple's direct store inventory and not a co...