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Apple is planning to launch ultra-low-cost Macbook in 2024, claims report

Apple is reportedly engaged on an ultra-affordable Macbook in a bid to fulfil the wants of the schooling sector and tackle Google’s Chromebook. Reportedly, the brand new mannequin can be priced considerably decrease than the prevailing fashions by the Cupertino-based firm.

According to a DigiTimes report, Apple will launch a brand new product line for its low-cost current MacGuide Air and Pro fashions. The exterior look of the laptop computer may nonetheless use a metallic casing however made out of various supplies. 

The report notes that unit worth of mechanical parts of the laptop computer can be decrease which can enable it to be extra affordably priced, aiming on the schooling market and placing it in competitors to the Chromebooks. 

However, the brand new laptop computer might be launched in second half of 2024 since main Apple suppliers like Quanta Computer and Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) haven’t proven any signal of associated exercise but.

The DigiTimes report notes that Chromebooks have gained traction within the schooling sector, taking the shipments to 33.5 million items in 2021 in comparison with 13.9 million items in 2019. 

However, a 9to5Mac report claims that it might be a monumental activity for Apple to compete with the Chromebooks given {that a} typical Macbook prices across the $999 worth level in comparison with the $200 worth vary for Chromebooks. 

Moreover, the report notes that a complete Google companies and Chromebooks infrastructure has come up within the schooling sector stopping entry of different competing OS like Mac or Windows. 

Meanwhile, Apple is all set to launch the iPhone 15 lineup on the firm’s annual September occasion. Apple is ready to announce 4 new iPhones this yr – the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The Apple Watch Series 9 can be anticipated to launch this yr, whereas there isn’t a point out of an Apple Watch Ultra or Apple Watch Se this yr.

 

 

 

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Updated: 06 Sep 2023, 11:39 AM IST

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