Low-cost MacBook rumored enter mass production shortly

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple’s lower-cost MacBook, based on an iPhone processor, will start to be manufactured by the end of 2025.

Apple could be looking to bring out a successor to its lower cost MacBook

It was Ming-Chi Kuo who in June 2025 first seriously claimed that Apple was designing a lower-cost MacBook, which would use an iPhone-style A-series processor. Prior to that, there were regular comparisons between the A-series and the Mac‘s M-series, but Kuo said a MacBook was planned with an A18 Pro processor.

He also slated manufacturing as being expected either at the end of 2025 or early in 2026. Now writing on Twitter, he’s updated this estimate to say that mass production would begin during the fourth quarter of 2025.

Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible

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