The RAM crisis comes for Apple: Mac and iPad prices jacked up by hundreds as company says 'We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly'

Apple has bitten the bullet. The house that Steve Jobs built took its store offline a little earlier. When it came back, punters were confronted with a bleak new reality: Macs and iPads are now hundreds of dollars dearer. Here’s a tasting platter of new starting prices:The MacBook Air now starts at $1,299, up from $1,099,The MacBook Pro now starts at an eye-watering $1,999, up from $1,699.The MacBook Neo will now set you back a minimum of $699, up from its original price of $599.The iPad Air now starts at $749, up from $599The iPad Pro now starts at $1,199, up from $999If you were gonna splurge, get ready to splurge all the more: the M4 Max Mac Studio is up to $2,499 from $1,999We’re keeping track of all the Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals hereUntil now, Apple had managed to be the one exception to the memory crisis. Even as the waters rose for everyone else, the company’s prices generally stayed firm, held steady by one of the most valuable corporations on Earth’s relationship with suppliers and, perhaps, the fact it already prices its tech to make a comfy profit for itself at the best of times.”We have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices,” Apple said in a statement picked up by the Wall Street Journal. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.” At least for now, Apple is not increasing the price of the iPhone, its number-one…

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