These low cost macs are just glorified web browsing machines and Netflix streaming devices.

Just give the iPad a Samsung Dex-like mode that can be enabled on the normal display, make a more affordable keyboard+trackpad option and call it a day.

Stage manager is okay but needlessly clunky. Just give me actual windows that I can move/resize at my own leisure.

If this is true, it’ll sell like gangbusters. The vast majority of students buying what’s nearly become a right of passage at this point in what is an Apple laptop will certainly flock to this; since even the MBA is overkill for most use cases.

Where it gets interesting is how this will stack up next to the iPad, in particular the iPad Pro. With this, you’d get an attached screen and keyboard; and an OS that’s actually worth its own existence. Unless you absolutely needed a touch screen for some reason, I could see this badly cannibalizing iPad sales.

I dig it

I think they could do a 12” MacBook no-suffix with basically previous gen M-chips (or even A-chips?) and a air-cooled set-up so as to not have to over-engineer cooling. Using cheaper shit and fans would degrade the base MBA M1 experience just enough to make it cheap, I guess.

I mean, I don’t know how you get something that the M1 MBA doesn’t already do. Just whack $200 off the price of the MBA M1 and save yourself the trouble. Maybe make them cool, fruity colors and call the chip the M1X or some shit.