{"id":1026052,"date":"2026-08-04T08:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026052"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:24:14","slug":"apple-macbook-air-hits-supply-shortage-here-are-5-strong-alternatives-you-can-buy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/04\/apple-macbook-air-hits-supply-shortage-here-are-5-strong-alternatives-you-can-buy-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple MacBook Air hits supply shortage \u2013 Here are 5 strong alternatives you can buy now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were planning to pick up a new (and more expensive) M5 MacBook Air, you might face unexpectedly long shipping delays or empty store shelves. According to a report by Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, Apple is currently experiencing a major supply shortage for the MacBook Air. The Apple retail store inventory is more constrained than usual, and online orders across major RAM and storage versions now face up to 6-week delivery delays. <\/p>\n<p>The shortage comes from an ongoing global memory chip crisis. With the rise in AI data centres, RAM and SSD chip prices have surged, thus leading to a hike in prices of laptops and smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were planning to pick up a new (and more expensive) M5 MacBook Air, you might face unexpectedly long shipping delays or empty store shelves. According to a report by Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, Apple is currently experiencing a major supply shortage for the MacBook Air. The Apple retail store inventory is more constrained than usual, and online orders across major RAM and storage versions now face up to 6-week delivery delays. The shortage comes from an ongoing global memory chip crisis. With the rise in AI data centres, RAM and SSD chip prices have surged, thus leading to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026073,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026052\/revisions\/1026073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}