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Low cost 12-inch and 13-inch MacBooks are tantalisingly close to production, according to new reports
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
If there’s one thing we know aboutApple, it’s that it doesn’t make cheap computers. But a new report suggests that Apple is starting to Think Different about that. Fancy aMacBookfor around £700? Apple is apparently very close to making just that. That’s a whopping £299 less than the current cheapest MacBook, theMacBook Air.
Why Apple’s considering cheaper Macs
The idea of more affordable Mac laptops is hardly new: Apple made them in the form of its MacBook in the mid-2000s, and in 2008 the 12-inch MacBook was the best-selling laptop of any brand in US retail stores. It was pitched as the cheap Mac, although of course Apple doesn’t use that word – but it was priced to sell, cheaper than both the MacBook Air and the most affordable MacBook Pro. Apple killed it off in favour of the Air in mid-2011 and since then the price of the cheapest MacBook Air has risen considerably.
As with the 12-inch MacBook of the mid-2000s, the rumoured affordable Mac laptop for 2024 won’t have a killer spec – but Apple Silicon is hardly slow, and an M-series chipset in a nice laptop body would be fast enough for most people. Think iPad Air with a keyboard. Would you buy one? I’m pretty sure I would.
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