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Low-Cost MacBook Expected on March 4 in These Colors

geta said:
Part of my use is for backing up my iPhone and iPad, add to that MacOS, other apps and other things I need to store, so 256GB is too little for that purpose. And using a Cloud service is not an option, as well as carrying external drive is cumbersome on a daily basis.
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Really? A 512gb thumb drive is too cumbersome to carry?
 
SRQrws said:
I hope they ship silver or gray in addition to the bright colors. While I think "fun" colors are great for people who want them, there has to be at least a few old farts like me who don't want bright, fun colors for their computer.
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Yes, though the colors look “fun”, I guess I am boring and would go for the typical silver. Though the colors are fun, silver has always been “class-y” to me.
 
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darngooddesign said:
This mindset is typical of people who primarily use laptops on a desk instead of on their laps.
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I guess people can always make excuses if they want to. My MBP goes international quite often and a little 1tb thumb drive that fits in the palm of my hand always comes along, is always attached, while it’s on my lap and traveling. Tech tends to make some people lazy I suppose
 
yticolev said:
Really? A 512gb thumb drive is too cumbersome to carry?
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Next thing you know some people will say it’s too distracting to look at the computer screen to read the text and they want the screen removed.

The irony of saying a tiny thumb drive usb is too cumbersome to carry…but carrying a much larger laptop itself isn’t….
 
delsoul said:
I guess people can always make excuses if they want to. My MBP goes international quite often and a little 1tb thumb drive that fits in the palm of my hand always comes along, is always attached, while it’s on my lap and traveling. Tech tends to make some people lazy I suppose
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Counterpoint, when I used my 12” PowerBook with a thumb drive while seated crosslegged my thigh (I weigh 145# before you try to blame something else) always put upwards pressure on it. Over time that port got loose.

Not an issue on my 15” and 16” MBPs but it will be on a 12” laptop.
 
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darngooddesign said:
Counterpoint, when I used my 12” PowerBook with a thumb drive while seated crosslegged my thigh (I weigh 145# before you try to blame something else) always put upwards pressure on it. Over time that port got loose.

Not an issue on my 15” and 16” MBPs but it will be on a 12” laptop.
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Modern thumb drives are a lot smaller than they were when the 12” PB was new, and low profile drives exist
 
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seek3r said:
They’ve pulled no shenanigans on macs, and in fact the battles they’ve been having with the EU on iPhones makes me think it’d be even less likely they’d choose now to put macs under that scrutiny too…
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Good point. I agree.
seek3r said:
Yeah, with you on that. My theory is they’re announcing this laptop but also other products, and the hands on workshop part isnt for this machine. I think they’re going to do that multi day online product drop thing, which will include this machine and a whole bunch more, and then the event will be for new homekit or wearable products.
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Who knows … the hands-on could be the F1 movie immersive version for the AVP. An improved or even a new wearable?
 
dmfresco said:
I wish to get a laptop to replace a circa 2020 Intel MBP that has 16 GB RAM and 1 GB storage. I made the mistake of of installing MacOS 26 on it and it really cannot take it. If I knew a good way to blitz the OS and go back I would do so. Failing that I am thinking a 13 inch MB Air but the current models only come with 16 GB RAM. Any reason to think the new MB Airs anticipated with in this article can be built with more RAM? Or how well does the current 13 inch MB Air work with 16GB RAM?
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So there's a couple things you're wrong about, first of all, you can absolutely downgrade your OS on your current MBP, just because you updated to macOS 26 doesn't mean that's permanent, it's very easy to downgrade any Mac. And second, yes the new MBA will definitely have the option to upgrade the RAM, you are incorrect in thinking they "only come in 16GB" as they currently go up to 32GB. Not sure why you think 16GB is the max. Every MBA has had that option to increase RAM so there's zero chance they'll remove that with these new ones. Lastly, 16GB is very good and enough for the vast vast majority of users, it's unified memory so it's better and more efficient, and if there ever was a moment you needed more these Apple Silicon Macs do memory swap with the SSD, so I think you would be just fine.
 
izzy0242mr said:
It's the "App Store," not the "AppStore," btw.
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izzy0242mr said:
Locking the Mac down to the App Store would be a bad move and a bad signal to businesses, who often rely on apps not from an app store. I'm not sure if they'll release new Macs, as you said, and it would seemingly make more sense to put an old M1 chip in this than an A18 Pro chip, but Apple is not going to start turning macOS into Windows 10X any time soon.
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If they do release that low-cost MacBook with an A18, could it be that did so because it is Apple Intelligence compatible whereas the M1 is not? I don’t know if the M4 or M5 chip is more expensive than the A18.
 
MacMikePro said:
So there's a couple things you're wrong about, first of all, you can absolutely downgrade your OS on your current MBP, just because you updated to macOS 26 doesn't mean that's permanent, it's very easy to downgrade any Mac. And second, yes the new MBA will definitely have the option to upgrade the RAM, you are incorrect in thinking they "only come in 16GB" as they currently go up to 32GB. Not sure why you think 16GB is the max. Every MBA has had that option to increase RAM so there's zero chance they'll remove that with these new ones. Lastly, 16GB is very good and enough for the vast vast majority of users, it's unified memory so it's better and more efficient, and if there ever was a moment you needed more these Apple Silicon Macs do memory swap with the SSD, so I think you would be just fine.
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Yup, my 13” M4 MBA has 24GB of RAM 🙂
 
delsoul said:
I guess people can always make excuses if they want to. My MBP goes international quite often and a little 1tb thumb drive that fits in the palm of my hand always comes along, is always attached, while it’s on my lap and traveling. Tech tends to make some people lazy I suppose
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Because it's very convenient when you have something dragging on the side of a laptop when you use it no matter where you are…
 
dustin_ said:
zero chance they run ios on a macbook & there have been no rumors suggesting such a thing.
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Not sure how you could get macOS to run on an A19 chip, but if you could it would seem that an iPhone could double as "macbook" by plugging in the necessary peripherals via a special port 🙂
 
MaxinMusicCity said:
Not sure how you could get macOS to run on an A19 chip,
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Macs and iOS devices use the same chips

Think of the A18 Pro this machine will likely have as the M4 nano. They’re the same family.

Not the first time we’ve even had A branded chips in macs btw, the first apple silicon mac, the development kit, used the A12z
MaxinMusicCity said:
but if you could it would seem that an iPhone could double as "macbook" by plugging in the necessary peripherals via a special port 🙂
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Yes, that’s an limitation made by Apple to differentiate products, they could build something like samsung’s dex for a UI, but they havent
 
MaxinMusicCity said:
Not sure how you could get macOS to run on an A19 chip, but if you could it would seem that an iPhone could double as "macbook" by plugging in the necessary peripherals via a special port 🙂
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Dude come on man, if you literally have ZERO clue about anything and have no idea what you’re talking about, why even comment? Please explain why you think macOS couldn’t run on an A chip. Please give me any data or any information on why you would even think that. Because I know the answer is “I just don’t think they can do it, although I have no clue as to why or how computer chips work”. Do you know that macOS actually runs on 20+ year old intel chips? Do you know that the A18 Pro is light years ahead of those chips in every possible way? The M chips and the A chips are all the same architecture, there’s only very few little differences. The A chips can absolutely run macOS, it’s not like macOS is some magical OS that makes it so much crazier to run vs iOS or iPadOS etc just because it looks a little different, they’re all based on the same thing.
 
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MaxinMusicCity said:
Not sure how you could get macOS to run on an A19 chip, but if you could it would seem that an iPhone could double as "macbook" by plugging in the necessary peripherals via a special port 🙂
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Throttlebook maybe, because I’m not sure how you could do MacOS work without your phone overheating.

If your destinations already have a display, mouse and keyboard, why not just carry a Mac Mini. It’s small and not particularly expensive.
 
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