Take the 13-inch MacBook “Pro” and turn it into the “13-inch MacBook” with an older design and previous gen chip and slap on a $600-$800 price tag and call it a day.
I remember the days when one bought a Mac for macOS. The hardware was inconsequential. Now, the HW is the selling point. macOS … well, is used to be insanely great.
64gb ssd, 2gb ram, 1 usb port, $899. We think you’re going to love it!
I think they could do a 12” MacBook no-suffix with basically previous gen M-chips (or even A-chips?) and a air-cooled set-up so as to not have to over-engineer cooling. Using cheaper shit and fans would degrade the base MBA M1 experience just enough to make it cheap, I guess.
I mean, I don’t know how you get something that the M1 MBA doesn’t already do. Just whack $200 off the price of the MBA M1 and save yourself the trouble. Maybe make them cool, fruity colors and call the chip the M1X or some shit.
Dear Tim Apple. Take the 12” MacBook, with a M1 8/256, for $699. You are welcome
They’re really coming to grips with how far they outkicked their coverage with the A chips.
Without gaming, without the business server market, there’s no one to upgrade m2s and m3s to on a yearly cadence. The M1 is already ridiculously powerful for most of their customer base. A CPU this powerful should have shook up the industry, instead it just dragged all their long term customer purchases forward to a single year thereabouts and then back to normal.
If anything, their conquest sales will take a hit for lack of Windows support.0
That’s not entirely true. My family and I always used a windows computer. My wife had an old intel MacBook Air because it had some program she needed. It was slow even with the i7 and was expensive for what she got. Programs like Microsoft Office were awful on it and I hated how everything in it was different.
Then my wife upgraded to the M1 MacBook Air and it was powerful and fast and could do the vast majority of anything I needed including a normal version of Office. Now I have an M1 MacBook Air and so does my Dad. Also, it is pretty well integrated with my iPhone and AirPods, which was a really nice touch.
They really turned it into a machine that was powerful and able to do anything I needed, for what is now a good price.
That’s my point alright! Thank you!
Every year the same headlines. Not gonna happen. And you know why? Because apple is seen and marketed as a luxury product, basically a veblen good. They’ll never make a properly cheap laptop, and doing a laptop that’s $200 cheaper than the current offering is just pointless.
All I want is a 27 inch iMac.
Best I can do is four more iPad models
Just give the iPad a Samsung Dex-like mode that can be enabled on the normal display, make a more affordable keyboard+trackpad option and call it a day.
Stage manager is okay but needlessly clunky. Just give me actual windows that I can move/resize at my own leisure.
$599?
$799?
Define low-cost.
Perhaps a tablet hybrid that runs iPadOS? Then it’s not a “Mac”.
I hope they can make these cheap enough that schools would adopt them. I’m tired of Chromebooks
I would buy an $800 12 inch MacBook with M1 instantly lol.
It’s just about time for some retro low priced iMac and MacBooks. I can smell it!!!
I kinda need a mini version of the old clear acrylic iMacs…maybe 13 inch…to use as my main home interface thingie.
Apple and. .Low Cost can never be in the same sentence.
I find it odd that Apple offers 4 iPads with a screen between 10.2" and 11," so the clearly see that size as popular, but the smallest screen size mac is 13.3," and they’ve had smaller sizes in the past such as the 11" MB Air, the 12" MacBook, etc.