More Lower-Cost MacBook Details Surface Ahead of 'Apple Experience' Next Week

Apple is expected to unveil up to 5 caller products adjacent week, including a lower-cost MacBook, and a fewer much details astir the laptop surfaced today.


According to proviso concatenation sources who spoke to DigiTimes, the entry-level MacBook volition so beryllium launching successful March. The study said measurement shipments of the laptop to Apple are projected to statesman adjacent month. Quanta Computer is expected to beryllium the superior assembler of this caller model, and Foxconn is expected to articulation successful later.

Mass accumulation was primitively slated to statesman successful precocious 2025, but the timeframe was pushed backmost to the archetypal 4th of 2026, the study said.

Due to rising constituent costs, including skyrocketing DRAM and NAND retention spot prices, DigiTimes believes that higher pricing whitethorn beryllium unavoidable. Early estimates placed this MacBook's starting terms arsenic debased arsenic $599 successful the U.S., but it is imaginable that the laptop volition commencement astatine $699 oregon $799 instead. In immoderate case, assemblage students should person $100 disconnected the regular terms done Apple's acquisition store connected the web.

The media volition apt person hands-on clip with the lower-cost MacBook astatine the "Apple Experience" gatherings being held successful New York, London, and Shanghai connected Wednesday, March 4 astatine 9 a.m. Eastern Time. There is nary Apple Event unrecorded watercourse for this launch, with the caller MacBook expected to beryllium announced successful a property release.

The lower-cost MacBook volition apt look much oregon little similar a MacBook Air, but it volition person immoderate reduced specs. The laptop is expected to beryllium powered by the A18 Pro spot from the iPhone 16 Pro, alternatively than an M-series chip, and it volition reportedly person a somewhat smaller 12.9-inch display. Based connected the A18 Pro chip's specs, this MacBook volition apt person conscionable 8GB of RAM, arsenic good arsenic regular USB-C ports alternatively of faster Thunderbolt ports.

Like the iBook from the aboriginal 2000s, it has been rumored that this MacBook volition travel successful amusive colour options, similar yellow, green, blue, and/or pink.

Apple antecedently utilized the "MacBook" sanction (without "Air" oregon "Pro" branding) from 2006 to 2012, and again from 2015 to 2019, but each of those models utilized Intel processors. This would beryllium the archetypal clip that determination is an entry-level "MacBook" with Apple silicon, and we should yet larn each astir it successful little than a week.
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