Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper Mac laptop with an iPhone chip

Apple is moving connected a low-cost Mac laptop powered by an iPhone spot that it plans to motorboat successful the archetypal fractional of 2026, according to Bloomberg. The laptop volition besides person a “a lower-end LCD display” and a surface size that’s “slightly below” the 13.6-inch surface connected the existent MacBook Air. The laptop volition beryllium sold for “well nether $1,000,” Bloomberg reports, and the laptop’s terms volition “fall successful a akin range” arsenic the astir $600 outgo for an entry-level iPad and a Magic Keyboard Folio.

So far, laptops with Apple Silicon person utilized M-series chips. But Apple’s tests person recovered that the iPhone spot “can execute amended than the Mac-optimized M1 utilized successful laptops arsenic precocious arsenic a fewer years ago,” Bloomberg says. The caller laptop volition person an “entirely caller design” and volition beryllium aimed astatine much casual users, students, and businesses.

Earlier this year, proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo likewise reported that Apple was processing a much affordable MacBook with an A-series chip. Kuo said that the laptop would beryllium powered by the A18 Pro spot recovered successful the iPhone 16 Pro lineup and would travel successful a scope of colors including silver, blue, pink, and yellow.

The institution has besides “finished work” connected a MacBook Air powered by its recently-introduced M5 spot that it plans to merchandise aboriginal adjacent year, Bloomberg reports. MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are successful the works, too.