The $599 MacBook rumor is persistent, but seems more likely than ever

Rumors of a low-cost MacBook have circulated since before there were even MacBooks, but the latest reports have made a strong case for Apple finally making one — and it would be such a huge hit.

Apple’s 2015 MacBook came to be called the MacBook Adorable — image credit: Apple

Right at the very start of developing the Macintosh in the early 1980s, Steve Jobs famously stated that the ambition was “Mac in a book in five years.” He wasn’t enormously far out, with the PowerBook 100 launching in 1991 — and what he renamed the MacBook Pro in 2006.

If there were ever a stated ambition to make a low-cost MacBook, it wasn’t made as public as the plans for a low-cost Macintosh were back in 1984. From 1991 to 2025, you could call a laptop Mac value for money, but you couldn’t call it low cost.

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