I tried buying a MacBook Air from Apple today - shipping was delayed by over a month

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Apple raised prices across its entire MacBook lineup -- including the Neo.
• New MacBook Air laptops can take a month or more to ship to consumers.
• The global memory shortage is making consumer laptops more expensive and in shorter supply.

Apple recently raised prices on MacBooks, but that doesn't appear to have slowed down sales. In fact, now it's dealing with a significant product shortage, with "shipments of new units more constrained than they can ever recall," as reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Thanks to the global memory shortage, consumer electronics are feeling the squeeze with constrained supply and higher prices, and Apple is no exception. It jacked up the priceof the MacBook Air M5 by around $200 in June, with higher-end models of the Air and MacBook Pro seeing even higher raises -- and there's...

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