Just depends how old and usage history for me.
Hard to beat at the preowned prices I'm seeing.
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$599 MacBook With iPhone Chip Expected to Enter Production This Year
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Just depends how old and usage history for me.
Hard to beat at the preowned prices I'm seeing.
It'll probably have a Tim Cook Potato Screen (or some other serious compromise for 2025+), which will help explain the pricing.
I see this being very popular at Walmart, Target, and retailers like that.
"The A18 Pro offers similar performance as the M1 chip, so Apple might opt to save the A19 Pro for the second-generation lower-cost MacBook."
This statement answers a Q I have had for a while:
- What is the A Chip equivalent with the M-Chips?
Based on the latest data, I figured A19 Pro had to be approx M1 Max, or M2 Base Equivalent.
So I question why Apple can't put an M1 or M2 chip in an iPhone.
- Cooling can't be the issue for not doing it. They are now putting vapor chamber cooling tech in iPhones.
- And they are putting chips in phones now that deliver greater performance while reducing thermal output (more efficient C chips to manage the modem, and more efficient N chips to manage WiFi and Bluetooth).
An M1 or M2 chip combinined with a C2 and N2 chip in an iPhone should be OK in terms of effective thermal management. If so, they could mothball the A series (cutting R&D costs), continue M1 & M2 production for iPhones (no R&D costs there, and no manufacturing change over costs) while advancing Generation 2-3-4 of C and N chips, and improving thermal management coding. It could make phones cheaper (from and R&D and production perspective), yet more robust.
But doing that could kill iPad Base, and iPad Mini sales. Maybe that is why Apple won't do it.
This statement answers a Q I have had for a while:
- What is the A Chip equivalent with the M-Chips?
Based on the latest data, I figured A19 Pro had to be approx M1 Max, or M2 Base Equivalent.
So I question why Apple can't put an M1 or M2 chip in an iPhone.
- Cooling can't be the issue for not doing it. They are now putting vapor chamber cooling tech in iPhones.
- And they are putting chips in phones now that deliver greater performance while reducing thermal output (more efficient C chips to manage the modem, and more efficient N chips to manage WiFi and Bluetooth).
An M1 or M2 chip combinined with a C2 and N2 chip in an iPhone should be OK in terms of effective thermal management. If so, they could mothball the A series (cutting R&D costs), continue M1 & M2 production for iPhones (no R&D costs there, and no manufacturing change over costs) while advancing Generation 2-3-4 of C and N chips, and improving thermal management coding. It could make phones cheaper (from and R&D and production perspective), yet more robust.
But doing that could kill iPad Base, and iPad Mini sales. Maybe that is why Apple won't do it.
Fingers crossed for the smaller/lighter MacBook. I'd give up a lot of performance/ features for it. Man the 12" was a great laptop. I still miss using mine as my everyday machine.
Why would you think it's not thermal? A18 is somewhere around 10W. M3 is somewhere around 20W max. Look at the designs needed to cool a 20W device.
Take a minute to look a the package size of an M-series chip. Then compare that to A-series.
You'll have your answer once you've done that homework.
It does if you plot by dollars. Don't forget to add the keyboard to the iPad's cost.
No to the iPad cannibalization, maybe to the MacBook Air. It depends on how the new Mac stacks up with RAM, storage, and ports. If it's 8/128 GB and 1 USB port and no headphone jack then it's useless except as a Chromebook thing, and Chromebooks go for less than $200.
16/512 GB with three USB ports and a headphone jack and the Air is dead. Where the line is drawn will be interesting.
Wooooo the return of the macbook12??
Day one purchase. Our 2016 MacBook is still chugging along but a new one would be awesome
Day one purchase. Our 2016 MacBook is still chugging along but a new one would be awesome
Unless they severely gimp this MacBook in RAM and storage specs, it would be an insta-buy for me at $599. It should be more than enough power for my (admittedly modest) needs when I'm away from my iMac at home.
If the iPhone Air is any indication, there will be reviewers trying to do things on this MacBook like edit/render feature length 8K Multicam videos and/or loading Logic Pro and creating/mastering 256 track recordings with a bunch of plugins, and talking about how lame it is because it heats up and doesn't do those things well. 😆 In other words, doing things that no rational user who buys this laptop would ever do, or expect it to be capable of.
If the iPhone Air is any indication, there will be reviewers trying to do things on this MacBook like edit/render feature length 8K Multicam videos and/or loading Logic Pro and creating/mastering 256 track recordings with a bunch of plugins, and talking about how lame it is because it heats up and doesn't do those things well. 😆 In other words, doing things that no rational user who buys this laptop would ever do, or expect it to be capable of.
If it runs the hobbled iPadOS, then there is not point to the low cost A18 MB. But--yuge (__!__)--if it runs MacOS, it's a 1000% improvement. It's like going from ChromeOS to a real Linux distro.
Don't know what OSX is, but what I do know is that iPadOS windowing comes from macOS, so, never say never 🤷🏻♂️
Technically one can even fit a 13 inch screen on the 12 MacBook frame by reducing the bezel. Maybe they rename the air to MacBook and the 12 to the new air.
It's been said so many times before: the upcoming Airs will definitely be more expensive and will never again be available for $799. Apple wants to use this offer to get people on board with Mac.
Oh my sweet summer child . It's not going to remain at 799
It's not due to slow sales, at least not if you ask analysts. We'll see what the Q3 results are like.
Me. I just hope that any A-series-based MacBook has at least 16GB of RAM. Do that and a significant performance gap versus the M4 will be acceptable given the price difference.
I'm not counting on a $599 price, but even at $699... Apple has never officially priced laptops in that bracket before. It could up-end the market in some countries where Windows PC vendors were previously "safe" below $999.
If Apple is not afraid of selling as many units as possible, then the new MacBook should include a touchscreen.
Touchscreens are already mainstream for Windows laptops and Chromebooks. Many schools are already issuing touchscreen Chromebooks to students, making it difficult for them to justify a more expensive MacBook without one.
Touchscreens are already mainstream for Windows laptops and Chromebooks. Many schools are already issuing touchscreen Chromebooks to students, making it difficult for them to justify a more expensive MacBook without one.