The best-selling laptop Apple makes has run out, in the middle of back-to-school season, three months after a $200 price rise. Mark Gurman, who covers Apple's supply chain, reported on 2 August that retail sources describe shipments as "more constrained than they can ever recall", with delivery estimates on the US store running two to six weeks and the highest-RAM configurations waiting longest. The cause has been sitting in plain sight for a year: the world's memory makers have pointed their factories at artificial intelligence, and everything else now queues.What is actually happening to the AirAbout The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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