Let’s face it, the next MacBook must be cheap

We need an affordable macbook, now more than ever. It’s time to deal with the fact that today’s laptop fleas are exaggerated for most people need a computer. If the majority of Internet users travel internet on phones that cost $ 200 or $ 400 less than the cheapest MacBook Air, it is logical to put a mobile chip in a laptop shell and call it one day. New rumors suggest that Apple could do that exactly, and we could see this cheap Mac before the end of the year.

Apple Ming-Chi Kuo’s supply chain analyst, a semi-feasable source for the next Apple products, proposed that the Mac Maker was on the path of a cheaper MacBook. A new Digitimes Asia report (spotted by MacRumors) adds fuel to this rumor of ignition. The site reported, based on anonymous “sources of supply chain”, that there is a 12.9 -inch MacBook in preparation that could arrive on stage this year. Even better, it will cost between $ 600 and $ 700. The reason why he will go to nearly $ 400 under the current MacBook Air M4 is because he will use one of the mobile chips in Apple A series, probably the A18 Pro found on the iPhone 16 Pro, rather than on the Apple M series silicon.

The next MacBook would be slightly smaller compared to a MacBook Air with a 13.6 -inch screen. If Apple manages to expel this cheap Mac, it will probably not be there before the end of the year. The recent rumors of Bloomberg Mark Gurman suggest that Apple could push his next MacBook Pros at 2026. A cheap MacBook would be a way to fill the gap in his outing calendar. In the meantime, today’s iPads are also divided between devices like the iPad Mini with an A17 Pro chip and iPad Air and iPad Pro with the Silicon of the M. series It is logical that Apple divides its laptops in the same way.

Apple’s current cheap iPhone, the iPhone 16th, does not have some of the modern equipment of today’s iPhones, such as the dynamic load of the island and wireless Magsafe. A cheap MacBook would probably wear a basic IPS LCD panel and very few E / S ports. It could include lower resolutions of previous macbooks based on Intel like the abandoned MacBook of 12 inch. In any case, its main sale argument will be its affordability. Apple would allow users to access the new features of MacOS 26 alongside quality of life capacities like Airdrop and access to Imessage. Today’s A18 chips are based on a 3 -nm process, which, in terms of the secular, means that they are very fast and potential in power. As long as you do not try to play AAA games or work on more intensive rendering applications, these mobile chips would be perfectly usable.

While American IT nerds, press our nose to the screen to identify the tiny differences between CPU references to one and thoroughly between generations of PC and Mac fleas, the rest of the world is not conscious or cares about the power of their laptop. Most consumers just want a device that can travel their social ones, access their favorite applications and let them type some emails. A phone can do all this, and it is small enough to hold in your pocket. The American census data show us that most households use phones as the main computer device. Families who only access the Internet via a smartphone normally earn much less money as a whole than those with domestic computers and are much more likely to live below the poverty line. There are people who have no choice but to opt for cheaper devices. Fortunately, with the variety of token today, cheaper does not need to be worse.

We are in a place where affordable laptops do not have to be so worse. PCs less than $ 500 today are relatively usable, even with low -end intel and AMD fleas. This does not mean that there is no floor for the specifications that users need to make a laptop that is worth the money. Today’s Chromebook models have been completed by adding “Chromebook Plus” with minimum specifications like 8 GB of RAM. However, even an excellent laptop like Lenovo Plus Chromebook feels forced by cloud -based applications on Chromeos. If Apple MacOS 26 Apple on its MacBook Cheapo, users would have access to the full range of Mac compatible features.