If you head to your local Apple Store to get a basic, workhorse MacBook Air, you might find that the shelves for the most popular laptop in the Apple lineup are mysteriously empty. You might then find that the same is true in the Apple Store one town over. This isn’t happening due to a rush of back-to-school shoppers in your area, according to an anonymously sourced report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman; it’s the latest retail symptom of the global memory shortage caused by the AI buildout.

People started to notice the issue this past week. For instance, as one X user pointed out on Tuesday, Apple back-to-school ads including the MacBook Air…

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