One year.

Somehow, Expand Mac mini has been running out in the wild for a full year now, and it hasn’t turned into a cautionary tale on some reddit thread titled “remember that thing that almost worked?” So that’s nice.

More importantly: thank you. Thank you for trusting us and buying it, thank you for recommending it, thank you for getting in touch for support, and thank you for sticking with us while we juggle reality like it’s a hobby.

 

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About the supply chain situation (and the backorders)

If you’re waiting on Mac mini M4 SSD orders, some of those were placed as backorder, and that means dispatch is taking longer than normal. We’re sorry. We hate it too. Nobody wakes up excited to tell people “your order is delayed because the global component market is doing its usual interpretive dance.”

The short version is: the memory market has been unusually volatile, and a big reason is the AI data centre demand surge. When hyperscalers and enterprise customers start locking up supply, the whole supply chain tilts toward higher-margin enterprise storage, and everyone else gets pushed down the queue. Analysts have been explicitly calling out tightening NAND supply and aggressive price movements tied to AI and enterprise SSD demand, and the industry is pretty openly saying the squeeze isn’t “over next week” kind of temporary.

None of that makes your upgrade arrive faster, but it does explain why lead times can swing from “normal” to “why is this suddenly a scarce resource”.

Now having said all that, what we’ve done on our side:

• We’ve been working with suppliers to secure some NAND supply in the past weeks
• We are receiving some M4 SSDs and they are scheduled to dispatch in February
• We will fulfil outstanding orders in the exact order they were placed

Our current plan is to clear all outstanding M4 SSD backorders in February.

And because we live in the real world: plans are plans. If upstream supply gets yanked again, delays can extend. We don’t control the supply chain and certainly not the global memory market. We do control how transparent we are about it, and we’ll keep updating as this moves.

 

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M4 Pro SSD modules are now available

Now for the good news that doesn’t come with a warning label: SSD modules for M4 Pro are officially available to purchase.

These are our in-house design, same approach as the M4 models. We’ve been testing them for a while, chasing down thermals, stability edge cases, and the usual “hardware will humble you” surprises. We’ve ruled out the major thermal and defect issues as we went, and they’re now finally ready to ship as a proper product. Because the larger PCB design, we are offering 2TB and 4TB variants for the Pro line.

And here’s the lucky part: we had these manufactured around Q4 last year, so we actually have some of these ready to ship. If you’ve been waiting on M4 Pro SSDs, this is the window where “now” actually means now. Support-wise, nothing changes:

• Straightforward support with ticketed inbox: no nonsense, no disappearing act
• 30 days refund period
• 1-year warranty

 

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Once again, thank you for the support and trust over the last year. We’re still here, we’re still shipping, and we’re still pushing through.