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Title: Apple Prepares To Enter Low-Cost Laptop Market for First Time
Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/04/181...
Apple is preparing to enter the low-cost laptop market for the first time,
developing a budget Mac aimed at luring away customers from Chromebooks and
entry-level Windows PCs. Bloomberg News: The new device -- designed for
students, businesses and casual users -- will target people who primarily
browse the web, work on documents or conduct light media editing, according
to people familiar with the matter. [...] Apple plans to sell the new machine
for well under $1,000 by using less-advanced components. The laptop will rely
on an iPhone processor and a lower-end LCD display. The screen will also be
the smallest of any current Mac, coming in at slightly below the 13.6-inch
one used in the MacBook Air. This would mark the first time that Apple has
used an iPhone processor in a Mac, rather than a chip designed specifically
for a computer. But internal tests have shown that the smartphone chip can
perform better than the Mac-optimized M1 used in laptops as recently as a few
years ago.
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