Here Are All the Rumors About Apple's New $599 MacBook

[sideshowuniqueuser]

If they make one with at least 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD... and... here's the real catch... don't charge their usual 30000% markup on wholesale prices for RAM/SSD, then I'll happily buy one of these for my son.

All these modern Apple chips are overkill unless you're doing large video editing jobs or playing intense games (and let's face it, if you're fully into games, you've got a windows desktop machine for that role). The bottleneck to performance for 99.9% of people isn't the CPU/GPU, it's the ridiculously low quantity of vastly overpriced RAM/SSD.

Reality is though, I'll look at the prices with 16GB/1TB, and won't buy it. Same happened with the current MBA.

Base prices for MBA/MBP are reasonable for the quality. Add the upgrade ripoffs, and nope.

 

[Hank001]

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[Philip_S]

The market for this item won’t be connecting it to a monitor if we are being honest.

If it’s aimed at education, not being able to hook it to a projector at 1080p (which is quite likely to be all a classroom projector can handle, maybe QHD if it’s a well-funded school) would be a headache.

 

[RaoulDuke42]

I will. In fact, if it is $200 more, it will be still an immediate sale for me. I have zero need for better multicore performance (and noise and space taken up by cooling fan), much more interested in low weight and small form factor. My 12" is fine for now but I will replace it sooner than later if Apple comes through. I tried the M1 MBA, but 2.7 pounds turned out to hamper the usability for me by a huge margin and I returned it after just a day.

Indeed, there’s a big difference between two pounds and 2.7 pounds. I miss the 12” retina Macbook and hope we get something two pounds or less. I would guess there’ll be two usb-c ports and a headphone jack, but no mag-safe.