Apple Launching Budget MacBook in 2026

Apple is processing a much affordable Mac notebook that's acceptable to travel retired successful the archetypal fractional of 2026, according to Bloomberg. The instrumentality volition outgo "well nether $1,000" and it volition vie with affordable Windows machines and Chromebooks.


Apple's lowest priced Mac notebook close present is the MacBook Air, which starts astatine $999, though students tin get a $100 discount done the Education Store. The Mac mini desktop instrumentality is much affordable astatine $599, but it is not portable and does not travel with a show oregon peripherals.

While Apple has agelong had a much affordable "SE" mentation of the iPhone, Macs person ever been much expensive, premium devices. Cheaper PCs person seen occurrence with students and those that don't request capabilities beyond web browsing and papers creation.

The low-cost Mac could regenerate the entry-level iPad and keyboard combo that immoderate radical usage arsenic an affordable mode to get a PC-capable Apple device.

We've heard aggregate rumors astir Apple's program for a lower-cost notebook implicit the past fewer months. Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo said successful June that the instrumentality would person a 13-inch show and an A-series ‌iPhone‌ processor alternatively than a Mac processor. Apple volition reportedly usage the A18 Pro spot that archetypal came retired successful the iPhone 16 Pro.

Kuo said that Apple could connection the Mac successful agleam colors similar the iMac, selling it successful Silver, Blue, Pink, and Yellow.

The low-cost MacBook volition not regenerate immoderate existing Mac successful Apple's lineup, and it volition beryllium sold alongside M5 versions of the ‌MacBook Air‌ and MacBook Pro that Apple plans to debut aboriginal successful 2026.
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