{"id":60133,"date":"2018-03-06T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60133"},"modified":"2018-03-06T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:22:15","slug":"apple-planning-cheaper-macbook-air-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-planning-cheaper-macbook-air-report-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple planning cheaper MacBook Air, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Apple planning cheaper MacBook Air, <\/span>report<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> says<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Apple has been accused of being many things, but &#8220;cheap&#8221; isn&#8217;t one of them. If you want to own a brand new Apple-branded laptop, then the cheapest option is the MacBook Air, which starts at $999. Beyond <\/span>that<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> there&#8217;s the MacBook and MacBook Pro starting at $1,299 each. However, the good news is we may be getting <\/span>an cheaper<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> laptop from Apple in the next few months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">As 9To5Mac reports, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released a couple of investor notes late last week <\/span>among<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> which he predicts Apple will launch a cheaper MacBook Air in the second quarter of this year. Kuo&#8217;s track record of predicting what Apple is going to do next is very good and we&#8217;ve got no reason to suspect he&#8217;s wide of the mark here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The MacBook Air has been around since 2008 and received its last refresh in June 2017. The base $999 model includes a 13.3-inch 1,440-by-900 resolution display, a 128GB SSD, 8GB of RAM, and is powered by a <\/span>dual core<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> 1.8GHz Intel Core i5-5350U with Intel HD Graphics 6000 integrated GPU.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The processor is a 5th generation Intel chip first released back in early 2015, so it&#8217;s well overdue for an upgrade. As to what the upgrade will include, that&#8217;s difficult to predict. Apple won&#8217;t want to offer a cheaper laptop that reduces the amount of 12-inch MacBooks it is selling. How do you stop that while offering a 13-inch MacBook Air with a significantly lower price point? Could we see a reduction is screen size? Apple used to sell an 11.6-inch model, after all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">If Kuo&#8217;s prediction of a <\/span>second quarter<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> launch is accurate then expect Apple to make an announcement very soon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2018\/03\/05\/apple-planning-cheaper-macbook-air-report-says.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-planning-cheaper-macbook-air-report-says.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple planning cheaper MacBook Air, report says Apple has been accused of being many things, but &#8220;cheap&#8221; isn&#8217;t one of them. If you want to own a brand new Apple-branded laptop, then the cheapest option is the MacBook Air, which starts at $999. 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