Let me guess: with really low specs and once you configure it to be decent it costs twice as much?
Yes. But if the lowest configuration will be 16GB RAM and 256GB storage like base M4 Mini then it will sell like hotcakes and will make way more sense than M4 Mini at that price.
Narrator: It wasn’t.
Woah woah slow down. 16GB base ram in an apple product? Maybe in 2030 or so, 2025 is too soon for that.
The latest macbook air starts at 16 already tho
Ah well, I stand corrected. Good on apple for finally moving up from 8 baseline
I wish I gave a particular example where that’s the case right now… Oh well… Let’s wait till 2030 then.
That’s great and all, but it’ll be like the Mac Mini. Insane value if you plan to enjoy 8gb of ram, and barely any storage, in 2025
The base Mac Mini has 16GB, not 8 (storage complaints are fair but also trivial to address with external drives)
Yep. Storage on a minipc form factor is definitely a non-issue. Bought my son a $100 2TB crucial external drive and it’s literally 2”x2” (5cmx5cm). Storage is SUPER small these days and cheap. Not slow either.
Why does everyone forget their aborted launch of Apple Intelligence involved setting the baseline at 16GB for all their macs? (Except for the M1 Walmart special?)
But what should it be called? “MacBook”? “MacBook SE”? “MacBookE”? “MacBook AirE” (airy!)? “MacBook Mini”?
MacBook Shuffle
“Low cost” and “Apple” go together like oil and water.
Like the Mac Mini?
A welcome exception!
iPads are pretty affordable.
