Having a $600 MacBook may make people wonder why the iPhone is so much more expensive.
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$599 MacBook With iPhone Chip Expected to Enter Production This Year
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It's a great machine, but will be 6 years old by the time this comes out. How many additional years of updates will it get?
It depends what else you normally carry with you, if you have a car, backpack etc.
You don't want to carry a power-bank in your Jeans of course - you get the point, right?!
Perhaps it’s actually an iBook running iPadOS as a competitor to Chromebooks. That would be a dumb idea, but unfortunately that’s not a reason to rule it out. iPadOS is evolving in the direction of a locked down MacOS with touch support.
Edit: given current naming trends it would probably be AppleBook if it ran something other than macOS.
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It would be lovely to think a MacBook 12.9 with the same footprint of the 12 of old - that was a delightful product. I keep my M1 Air because the design of the new one is jarring compared to the elegant wedge.
So theory times - this new MacBook will be the precursor to an updated MacBook Air that actually deserves that moniker. Similar to the new iPhone Air, a new MacBook Air could follow in 2027 that was razor thin, super light and ultra portable that would actually make you want to upgrade rather than the dullfest that is the current Air.
So theory times - this new MacBook will be the precursor to an updated MacBook Air that actually deserves that moniker. Similar to the new iPhone Air, a new MacBook Air could follow in 2027 that was razor thin, super light and ultra portable that would actually make you want to upgrade rather than the dullfest that is the current Air.
Apple historically understood that the company that should cannibalise Apple's products is: Apple.
Margins are still profit.
last decade from 2010-2017 I took my MacBook Air 11" 2010 everywhere
while outside, away from my apartments, then house.
until finally I purchased an iPad just to draw my comics then, everything else.
now most of the time the MacBook gets more inside use since Tahoe seems great.
that Mac mini only get turned on to watch a TV show through the TV downstairs.
so yes these MacBooks do have a portability as well as a powerful tool
as yes perhaps should make an affordable MacBook for the masses.
while outside, away from my apartments, then house.
until finally I purchased an iPad just to draw my comics then, everything else.
now most of the time the MacBook gets more inside use since Tahoe seems great.
that Mac mini only get turned on to watch a TV show through the TV downstairs.
so yes these MacBooks do have a portability as well as a powerful tool
as yes perhaps should make an affordable MacBook for the masses.
Apple probably would like to sell 1100 usd iPhone Airs than 599 usd macbook airs
How to explain this?
Apple's Rumored MacBook Pro Redesign: 6 New Features Anticipated
Apple in October 2024 overhauled its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, adding M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, Thunderbolt 5 ports on higher-end...
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So gut it, slap a low cost, binned, 4 year old A series chip in it, and peel away a lot of the veneer for basically refurbs they can flip for $200 less. Cool cool.
New Chromebooks in bulk seem to list at $500 and sell for around $300 in bulk. Could Apple get to that price?
Financially, it might make sense if Apple's kit lasts for 5 years instead of how many years a Chromebook is good for.
Financially, it might make sense if Apple's kit lasts for 5 years instead of how many years a Chromebook is good for.
Even if it does, Apple has no issues with that, the iPhone destroyed the entire iPod market. It's still their products, so they'll still be making money.
Is this going to get USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C ports? As we saw recently in iPhone Air, A## "Pro" is not a guarantee for fast USB ports 😂
Makes sense when you look at the whole picture. The lowest end budget MacBook has an A series chip. This will be going up against Chromebooks and Windows laptops with N series Intel chips.
The base M chips are for mid range devices like Air and Mini. Macs go up to Pro, Max, and Ultra, those are the chips you get if you are buying a serious computer that goes beyond web browsing. Essentially low end Macs are doing the same tasks as iPads, web browsing. Mid range Macs are doing the same tasks as Pro iPads, very light video and audio production.
iPads on the low end start out on A series chips. The midrange Air has an outdated M series chip. Only the most powerful iPads meant for pros have the current lowest level M chip. So the most powerful iPads made are still 3 levels below the most powerful Mac. Everything is perfectly in its place and every computing product has a device for a use case.
Until now the Mac lineup was missing the student web warrior/education/research at the coffee shop, bracket option. You had to go up to a midrange power device or go home. Or… buy a used previous gen device… and Apple does not make money on second hand sales
I've thought about the line Apple creates between the iPad (iPadOS) and the Mac (MacOS) and then form of each of these.
My ideal use case is an ultraportable, ideally in tablet form or a small lightweight portable laptop like the old 11inch MBA. At work and home, my current 13inch MBA is always plugged into a larger monitor, but what I am lacking is the ideal device on the go, for meetings and note taking. I know this could be where the iPad fits in, but I want this to be a single device.
Seems like the ideal would be a iPad running MacOS (easy since they already use M-series). Again, I know why Apple doesn't do this but wonder how many others out there see the same use case.
My ideal use case is an ultraportable, ideally in tablet form or a small lightweight portable laptop like the old 11inch MBA. At work and home, my current 13inch MBA is always plugged into a larger monitor, but what I am lacking is the ideal device on the go, for meetings and note taking. I know this could be where the iPad fits in, but I want this to be a single device.
Seems like the ideal would be a iPad running MacOS (easy since they already use M-series). Again, I know why Apple doesn't do this but wonder how many others out there see the same use case.