If someone wants to buy a laptop from Appleyou will see that in the company store the most economical option, the MacBook Air of 13 inchespart of the € 1,199. MacBook are a line of laptops that remain Out of the reach of many consumersbut that could soon change with the launch of A new remarkably cheaper model.
The news was filtered in June the analyst specialized in Apple and in the electronic device supply chain Ming-Chi Kuo. And this Monday has been Digitimes the medium that has advanced The price of Apple’s cheap macbook.
Citing supply chain sources, Digitimes says that this new MacBook will cost Between $ 599 and $ 699. Transferred to euros, 515 and € 600. The device would go into production in the third quarter of this year and would arrive on the market in the late 2025 or early 2026.
How does Apple get to a MacBook that is worth half than the cheapest available? There are several relevant changes. On the one hand, I would not use M4 series processors Like the MacBook Air and Macbook Pro. Instead, a socate would ride A18 PROthe same one used by the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max launched last fall. The price of Apple’s iPhone range part of the € 1,219 and € 1,469respectively.
Use a smartphone processor on a computer Doubts about the performance you can offer. A laptop has the capacity to house chips with more transistors and greater power than those of an iPhone, in addition to being able to refrigerate them better. The first will not be used in this case, but the second could allow an increase in work frequencies thanks to a better heat dissipation.
In any case, in tests with Geekbench, the A18 PRO is approaching mononucle performance to the base M4, but is at a great distance in multinukle. In Antutu 10another popular benchmark, The performance difference exceeds 50 %.
RAM and storage options have not transcended, but the screen size, which is the second big change. The new Macbook will be The smallest Apple laptop, with a 12.9 -inch diagonal0.7 less than the 13.6 Air that now holds that title. No more details about the screen are known, although Apple could do without Liquid retina To reduce costs.
The company launches this product to boost the sales of its laptops. According to Apple’s latest financial report, these are solid, but expects such a competitive price to increase them by 30 or 40 %.