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Apple to Sell Low-Cost 12-Inch and 13-inch MacBooks for $700 or Less
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Steve Jobs has been dead for over a decade. It's time to move on.
Watch this be a powered by and A chip and run a form of iOS.
Very wary of anyone outside of Apple knowing what the price would be and doubtful that they could match a Chromebook. Might have to drop below a 25% margin to do that 😱
Right, because $699 is bargain basement, impulse purchase price....
If it has the footprint of the old 11 incher (RIP) or even the later 12 inches then I will buy one instantly as a secondary light travel device...
Would be sad if it is the same size / weight as the current 13" model but with large bezels.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Since both news and rumours are reported on this site, could rumours be identified somehow in the title of the article?
It’s a small thing, I know, but it would be nice to know - at a glance - if what I’m reading is news/fact or a rumour.
It’s a small thing, I know, but it would be nice to know - at a glance - if what I’m reading is news/fact or a rumour.
Yep.
I also think Apple's been taking the piss on their 'upgrade' pricing even more of late. I'm sure someone somewhere aside from Wayback has tracked Apple pricing and upgrade costs throughout the years, but the memory and storage bump pricing is just getting to insanity, starting price of 'ok, already more than a quality mgr Intel system' but you quickly wind up into much higher #s.
Dell XPS bump in memory from 16GB (base) to 32GB is like $100, going from 512GB storage to 1TB or 2 TB is ~$100 per bump up in size.
It does look like Lenovo is trying to follow suit with Apple, as on Thinkpad Carbon going from 32GB RAM to 64GB is $450 and going from 256GB SSD (!! Really, Lenovo?) to 2TB will set you back ~$750.
Profiteering at work. Inflation and supply chain goes up 20%, let's increases costs by 50% while claiming 'we've done the best we can on pricing in this situation.' Meh.
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They found some 'new old stock' from flip phones and needed to do <something> with them!
I already use my MBA M1 way more than I did my 12.9 and a 12" would be the ultimate travel companion!
I don't see how even $700 would convince school districts to adopt MacBooks. Those devices take a beating.
Yeah, you're not alone there. Netbooks had a nice niche going for a while, especially for anyone not on MacOS.
I had a couple running Linux at one point, and they were decent for travel and the like.
Now I'll take my iPad Pro, but it's always a question of 'can I REALLY get away with iPad(OS) for everything I might want to do?' - works well for 'real' vacations when I manage to completely disconnect, but on the chances of needing to do any work, I've got to slip the MBP into my bag as well.
I think they’ve more than likely nailed all the contacts Kuo has access to and are taking them down bit by bit.
Because this and the watch thing makes no sense. Due to the rapid fall in the one thing (iPad) that has historically had unit sales twice of the other thing (Mac), they’re going to focus on… the OTHER thing(Mac)? Rather than the thing that already outsells the Mac?
Yeah the same as any other PC. Also, note that since Jobs said that, $500 then is now $685 with inflation. And for that you won’t get a piece of junk.
future macbooks will come with maciOS preinstalled. The simplicity of iOS, the power of a macbook keyboard. Paving the way for the 2025 macbook iPro, with "maciOS California".
Or are we supposign that Apple will give a full fledged macOS, with multiuser support and a Terminal, to the plebs?
Or are we supposign that Apple will give a full fledged macOS, with multiuser support and a Terminal, to the plebs?
Somehow Tim doesn’t look happy there.
Anyone that says anything about “school districts” either are from a well heeled school district flush with cash OR hasn’t looked into the realities of school administration in awhile.
The big money for those laptop rollouts are in the administration, maintenance, and upkeep of the devices. Google offers a deal that far better than Apple EVER could. They charge some insignificant amount per Chromebook for Google to remotely run admin for those systems (and the terabytes of data they transfer every day offering value that’s likely far greater than what the district paid for the hardware.If Apple wanted to get into the data brokerage business, then there might be some money in it for them. Otherwise, education mostly goes to the cheapest, and Apple hasn’t been that in a LOOONG time.
I think you are spot on here, this really sounds like the strategy apple has used in its other product lineups as of late. They will most likely reuse M1 MacBook air design with a newer internals if you ask me.
The moment this Macbook comes out Windows PCs are finished, because here's the thing: This thing is gonna go on sale a lot so a lot of times you'll find it under $700. At that point there will be no reason to buy a Windows laptop anymore
Still too expensive for the low-cost market, basic laptops (Chromebook or one that runs Windows S) are available in the $200-300 range and they handle basic computing/education/productivity stuff just fine.
Apple's idea of a low-end model will always be too pricy for what it offers - lowering the price of accessories (and making more versatile ones) for an entry-level iPad would make that possible as an alternative, but iPadOS is the culprit Apple isn't willing to fix.
Apple's idea of a low-end model will always be too pricy for what it offers - lowering the price of accessories (and making more versatile ones) for an entry-level iPad would make that possible as an alternative, but iPadOS is the culprit Apple isn't willing to fix.
Most people won’t consider $700 to be “low cost” for a basic small-screen laptop, in particular if that’s just for the Apple-typical base configuration, and when a sub-$300 Chromebook will serve much of the same purpose in practice. That’s not to say that it won’t sell, but probably not to the typical Chromebook user.
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The netbooks were a great idea, they were cheap and small enough you could stash them anywhere (Had one in my glovebox). Problem is they were so underpowered (Atom processors) and slow that they quickly turned into e-waste...
There’s a lot of reasons other than price why people buy Windows laptops.
Why does it make you nervous? As long as they make what you want, why be concerned if they make what others want as well?
Sounds familiar, you already cannot upgrade the SSD on your own even on a $3k+ MBP, and get gouged to go up to 1 or 2 TB like it's covered in diamonds.
Time to make **** products? Okay.
Ok, this was a small joke and maybe now Apple actually can make a low cost Mac since their software is so good and optimized because of the ARM CPUs.