$599 MacBook With iPhone Chip Expected to Enter Production This Year

Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo contiguous reiterated that a much affordable MacBook powered by an iPhone processor is slated to participate wide accumulation successful the 4th fourth of 2025, which points towards a precocious 2025 oregon aboriginal 2026 launch.


Below, we recap the rumors astir the lower-priced MacBook truthful far.

Kuo was first to reveal that Apple is allegedly readying a much affordable MacBook. In precocious June, helium said the laptop would person astir a 13-inch display, and an A18 Pro chip. Kuo said imaginable colour options see silver, blue, pink, and yellow, truthful the laptop could travel successful agleam colors, similar 2021-and-newer models of the 24-inch iMac.

This clip around, helium lone mentioned the MacBook volition person an unspecific iPhone processor. Apple precocious introduced the A19 Pro chip, which has 12GB of RAM, truthful it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if the lower-cost MacBook uses that spot instead. The full Mac lineup has started with astatine slightest 16GB of RAM since past year, with the lone enactment with 8GB being the MacBook with an M1 chip, which is sold exclusively by Walmart for $599.

The A18 Pro offers akin show arsenic the M1 chip, truthful Apple mightiness opt to prevention the A19 Pro for the second-generation lower-cost MacBook. Kuo anticipates that follow-up exemplary volition beryllium released successful 2027, with specs inactive not finalized.

Taiwanese proviso concatenation work DigiTimes expects the laptop to person a starting terms of betwixt $599 and $699 successful the United States.

The work said the lower-cost MacBook volition beryllium equipped with a 12.9-inch display, and a mentation of the A18 Pro spot that debuted successful the iPhone 16 Pro models past year. It would go the archetypal Mac to ever usage an A-series spot from an iPhone.

The lower-cost MacBook could motorboat successful precocious 2025 oregon aboriginal 2026, that study said.

Notably, the A18 Pro and A19 Pro deficiency Thunderbolt support, truthful the MacBook would apt beryllium equipped with regular USB-C ports. They would look the aforesaid arsenic Thunderbolt ports, but information transportation speeds would beryllium constricted to up to 10 Gbps. The laptop would natively enactment lone a azygous outer display, but that regulation tin beryllium flooded with DisplayLink adapters.

The lower-cost MacBook could person a batch successful communal with the discontinued 12-inch MacBook, including an ultra-thin and lightweight design. It would slot successful beneath the MacBook Air, which has a somewhat larger 13.6-inch display, an M4 chip, and a starting terms of $999. However, the latest MacBook Air is sometimes connected merchantability connected Amazon for arsenic debased arsenic $799.

Apple often announces caller Macs successful October, truthful possibly the lower-cost MacBook volition debut adjacent month. Otherwise, March 2026 is the adjacent apt timeframe.
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