Apple launches $1,099 MacBook Air, gives cheapest MacBook Pro a Touch Bar
Apple is reshuffling its MacBook Pro and Air lineup, and changes are significant.
The company has reduced the price of the entry-level MacBook Air to $1,099 ($999 for students), and given the cheapest, $1,299 13-inch MacBook Pro a Touch Bar, effectively killing the “escape edition” of the MacBook Pro, which no longer exists in the lineup.
The MacBook Air now comes in two flavors: the $1,099 variant and the $1,299 variant.
Both have a 1.6GHz, dual-core, 8th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM memory and Intel’s UHD Graphics 617. The cheaper version has 128GB of storage, while the other has 256GB of storage. Both have a new 13-inch Retina display with True Tone support, a first for the Air. Read more…More about Apple, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, Tech, and Consumer Tech
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Apple is reshuffling its MacBook Pro and Air lineup, and changes are significant.
The company has reduced the price of the entry-level MacBook Air to $1,099 ($999 for students), and given the cheapest, $1,299 13-inch MacBook Pro a Touch Bar, effectively killing the “escape edition” of the MacBook Pro, which no longer exists in the lineup.
The MacBook Air now comes in two flavors: the $1,099 variant and the $1,299 variant.
Both have a 1.6GHz, dual-core, 8th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM memory and Intel’s UHD Graphics 617. The cheaper version has 128GB of storage, while the other has 256GB of storage. Both have a new 13-inch Retina display with True Tone support, a first for the Air.
As for the 13-inch MacBook Pro, it’s now available in three basic flavors, all of which have a Touch Bar. This means that the MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar ā often dubbed escape edition(because of the inclusion of a hardware escape key ā is no more.
The cheapest variant costs $1,299 and has a 1.4GHz, quad-core, 8th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645, 128GB of storage, a Touch Bar and Touch ID, and two Thunderbolt 3 ports.
The $1,499 variant is the same, only with 256GB of storage, whereas the $1,799 variant has a 2.4GHz, quad-core, 8th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, and four Thunderbolt 3 ports.
Oh, and there’s one more important bit of news: The 12-inch MacBook no longer exists in Apple’s lineup.
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