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Best Buy is selling the base M4 Mac Mini, with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD, for $649 for the rest of the day, down from its usual $799 price. The newer M6 Mac Mini is currently available from Amazon for $779.99, making the discounted M4 model notably cheaper by comparison.
A round of weekend discounts covers Apple's new HomeView on pre-order, the newly launched Apple TV 4K at $289, and an ongoing $50 cut on AirPods Pro 3. Other notable offers include the M6 Mac mini at up to $150 off, M5 Pro MacBook Pro models discounted by as much as $600, an all-time low on the 2026 M5 Max Mac Studio at $2,299, and a record-low price on AirTag 2.
Amazon is offering steep discounts on M5 Pro MacBook Pro configurations, including $600 off a 2TB 14-inch model and $500 off a 16-inch 24GB model. Both deals bring prices below Apple's pre-price-hike list prices from June. Other current deals include AirPods Pro 3 at $50 off, AirPods Max 2 at $120 off, the M6 Mac mini near $150 off, and a $199 clearance price on a Black Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 3.
Amazon is selling the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro chip, 24GB RAM and 2TB storage for $2,399, down from its $2,999 list price. The retailer is also offering discounts on AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Max 2, the M6 Mac mini, iPhone 18 Pro cases and the USB-C Apple Pencil.
The Museo de Historia de la Computación spent 18 months building a full-size replica of the 1976 Cray-1 supercomputer that houses a working cluster of 30 Mac minis, mostly from 2012. Using a custom Python matrix-multiplication script, the cluster reportedly hit 1.3 teraflops on 64 active cores, down from a previous 1.5 teraflops run with all 70 cores online. The exhibit, built to mark the 50th anniversaries of the Cray-1 and Apple, lets visitors watch a calculation run on one core before seeing it spread across the cluster.
Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain spent 18 months building a working replica of the Cray-1 supercomputer to mark the 50th anniversaries of its debut at Los Alamos and Apple's founding. The replica clusters 30 Mac Minis from 2012-2014 (25 dual-core i5s and five quad-core i7s, 70 cores total) for a peak of 1.5 TeraFLOPS, though one quad-core unit going offline has dropped current peak output to 1.3 TeraFLOPS. Unlike the original's industrial refrigeration system, the replica is cooled passively via a convection-tower design.
Retailers are running weekend discounts on Apple products including up to $150 off the new M6 Mac mini, $200 off the Mac Studio, and the best pricing in months on the M5 MacBook Air. Deals also include AirPods Max 2 at $120 off, all-time lows on Apple Watch Series 12, iPhone 18 Pro cases starting at $41, and the first discount on the new Apple Magic Keyboard.
The Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain has built a 1:1 scale visual replica of the 1976 Cray-1 supercomputer, powered internally by a cluster of 30 Mac Minis from around 2012-2014. The project, which took 18 months to complete, marks the 50th anniversary of both the Cray-1 and Apple. Using 64 active cores running macOS Mojave with MPI networking, the cluster achieved 1.3 teraflops in recent tests, far exceeding the original Cray-1's roughly 160 megaflops peak performance.
Amazon is continuing a post-Prime Day discount on Apple's 2026 AirPods Max 2, pricing all five colorways at $429, down from the $549 list price. The deal matches fall Prime Day pricing and is only the second time the headphones have dropped this low, after a limited-time $399 offer last summer. Other lingering Apple deals include M6 Mac mini and M5 MacBook Air price cuts, though some discounts like the AirPods Pro 3 offer have already started rising.
Apple has updated its Mac desktop lineup, giving the Mac Mini new M6 and M5 Pro chip options and refreshing the Mac Studio, with both machines now emphasizing local AI processing. The base Mac Mini price has risen by about $300 compared to earlier models, though specs have also increased. A tech reviewer who has tested Apple desktops for over a decade recommends the M6 Mac Mini as the best choice for most buyers.
Amazon's fall Prime Day sale has officially closed, but AirPods Pro 3 remain discounted to $179, nearly 30% off their $249 list price. AirPods Max 2 are also still available at $429, a $120 discount, matching most of the pricing seen during the sale itself.
Despite the official end of Amazon's Prime Day, many significant discounts remain active, including deals on Apple products like Mac Mini, MacBook Air, and AirPods Pro 3, as well as Sony headphones. Some offers now require Prime membership, while others are accessible without it, and similar discounts can be found on other retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart, and Target.