[jsheard]

It'll get even weirder if the rumoured MacBook Lite with an iPhone processor ends up happening. Incredibly powerful tablets constrained by a dumbed down operating system, sold right next to much weaker laptops running a full fat desktop environment.

[gloxkiqcza]

Well A19 Pro beats M1 in benchmarks so while the rumored MacBook might be weaker than mid to high-end iPads, it won’t be a slow machine in general.

[dangus]

Is that really rumored? Sounds like kind of a weak rumor to me. The MacBook Air already exists.

Apple already makes low cost versions of those, which are the previous models that they continue to manufacture.

[jsheard]

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/30/new-macbook-with-a18-ch...

Apparently there are references to it in macOS already.

[dangus]

Interesting, seems like an odd choice but maybe the smaller SoC package brings costs down. I wonder if Apple will finally be making the $500 laptop they always claimed they couldn’t make.