Used Mac desktop price tracker
Daily asking-price history for Apple Silicon Mac mini and Mac Studio models and the Intel Mac mini market, backfilled across every retained day in Minime.
The current live catalog contains 732 Apple Silicon and 379 Intel offers that meet the tracker’s rules. The latest daily update is Aug. 30, 2026.
Current secondary-market asks
| Era | Offers | Median | Lowest | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Silicon | 732 | $1,210.28 | $205.92 | 14 |
| Intel | 379 | $190 | $45.79 | 6 |
These medians span configurations. They describe the market on offer, not the price of one exact memory and storage combination.
Current prices by processor
| Era | Product | Processor | Offers | Median | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Silicon | Mac Studio | M1 | 1 | $2,340 | $2,340 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac Studio | M1 Max | 54 | $1,813.96 | $1,224.73 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac Studio | M1 Ultra | 24 | $4,764.99 | $2,599.99 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac Studio | M2 Max | 24 | $2,554.68 | $1,653.97 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac Studio | M2 Ultra | 26 | $4,299 | $3,499 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac Studio | M3 Ultra | 60 | $9,216.50 | $4,529.46 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac Studio | M4 Max | 61 | $3,587.10 | $1,949 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac mini | M1 | 114 | $449.99 | $205.92 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac mini | M2 | 56 | $606.55 | $425 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac mini | M2 Pro | 28 | $1,161.28 | $673.71 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac mini | M4 | 227 | $928 | $650 |
| Apple Silicon | Mac mini | M4 Pro | 57 | $1,849.95 | $805 |
| Intel | Mac mini | Intel Core 2 Duo | 13 | $74.90 | $65.99 |
| Intel | Mac mini | Intel Core i3 | 19 | $198.49 | $154.99 |
| Intel | Mac mini | Intel Core i5 | 204 | $107.99 | $45.79 |
| Intel | Mac mini | Intel Core i7 | 142 | $399.97 | $89 |
| Intel | Mac mini | Intel Core i9 | 1 | $966.22 | $966.22 |
What changed Aug. 30, 2026
| Era | Observed | New | Cuts | Rises | Back | Out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Silicon | 68 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Intel | 58 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 0 |
“Observed” is the day’s successfully checked in-stock sample. “New” means first observed in the retained history. “Back” and “Out” are explicit availability events, not guesses from a missing crawl.
Daily price history
| Date | Silicon n | Median | Intel n | Median | Cuts | Rises |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 30, 2026 | 68 | $868.49 | 58 | $184.97 | 22 | 4 |
| Aug. 29, 2026 | 171 | $948.99 | 48 | $154.99 | 35 | 10 |
| Aug. 28, 2026 | 196 | $1,799.49 | 35 | $124.99 | 68 | 12 |
| Aug. 27, 2026 | 136 | $1,261.97 | 27 | $335 | 38 | 4 |
| Aug. 26, 2026 | 197 | $1,308.18 | 37 | $279.95 | 53 | 12 |
| Aug. 25, 2026 | 213 | $1,699 | 41 | $268.99 | 73 | 6 |
| Aug. 24, 2026 | 344 | $1,279.95 | 162 | $312.48 | 30 | 6 |
| Aug. 23, 2026 | 231 | $1,493.07 | 110 | $139.82 | 3 | 2 |
| Aug. 22, 2026 | 233 | $1,385.73 | 108 | $118.03 | 16 | 7 |
| Aug. 21, 2026 | 183 | $1,549 | 33 | $71.03 | 0 | 0 |
How much does a used Mac mini cost right now?
For Mac mini specifically, the live-catalog median is $789.99 for Apple Silicon and $190 for Intel. The lowest asks that pass the tracker’s filters are $205.92 and $45.79, respectively. These are asks plus explicit shipping where known, before tax — not completed-sale prices.
Does refurbished cost more than used?
In this current configuration mix, yes. Apple Silicon refurbished offers have a $999.99 median against $729 for used. Intel is $599 against $118.03. That is not a clean refurbisher premium: the groups contain different years, processors, memory and storage.
Are used Mac desktop asking prices falling?
Not across the board. Of 553 offers seen on more than one day, 317 kept the same ask, 215 ended lower and 21 ended higher. The median change was $0. Cuts outnumber rises among movers, but most repeated offers did not move.
How the tracker counts
Mac mini and Mac Studio; Apple Silicon and Intel Core eras; secondhand conditions; in-stock asking prices plus explicit shipping; one URL/condition observation per America/New_York day. Auction bids, completed sales, parts-only, new, unclassified and implausibly low observations are excluded. The retained history runs from Aug. 21, 2026 through Aug. 30, 2026 and contains 2,631 eligible daily offer observations derived from 15,163 price observations in the source database.
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About the data: These are asking prices plus explicit shipping where captured, before sales tax; they are not completed sales. Daily offer counts measure listings successfully observed that day, not the entire market. Generation medians mix memory and storage configurations. A listing can disappear because it sold, was withdrawn or was not successfully recrawled; only explicit availability events are labeled as inventory changes.