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Inbound: Cheapest MacBook ever
Get ready for Apple's all-time most affordable laptop.
Leander Kahney
June 30, 2025
I was just this morning admiring my MacBook Air — an M2 model I picked up for an absolute song when Best Buy had a sale last year.
It’s a beautiful machine, with fantastic industrial design and a gorgeous space gray finish.
It’s plenty powerful for the work I do, but super-light and portable. I couldn’t be happier with it.
We’ve got a stack of older, half-destroyed MacBooks and even PowerBooks in the basement that I’ve got to get around to recycling one day, and my newest machine is by far the best of the bunch.
In fact, Apple has been killing it with all of its entry-level products lately. The base iPhone 16 is flat-out gorgeous, and the cheapest iPad punches way above its weight.
So, it’s good news that Apple is reportedly preparing its most affordable MacBook ever for release next year. That’s great news for students, parents of students, and penny-pinching Apple addicts like me.
And that’s not the only good news on the horizon for frugal Apple fans. The company’s also reportedly prepping a much more affordable version of its Vision Pro headset, likely called the Vision Air.
Also in today’s newsletter:
If the leaks prove accurate, the iPhone 17 could be the most thrilling upgrade in years. Here are five iPhone 17 upgrades to get you pumped.
If you own a power bank from Anker, here’s how to check whether it’s been recalled.
Marking the 10th anniversary of Apple Music, Cupertino rolled out a handful of enhancements and new features today, including Apple Music Replay All Time, a new playlist of your all-time favorite tracks.
We have two great apps on sale: one of our favorite iPhone scanning apps and the only PDF editor you’ll ever need.
I have mixed feelings about Murderbot, the popular Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy that’s killing it in the streaming ratings. It’s not as bad as I suspected, but it’s not great, either. It’s frustrating, because it has some fun ideas and could be fantastic if the writing were better.
I’m a big fan of the iPod Hi-Fi, one of Apple’s first forays into music hardware. The owner of today’s featured setup argues it is the best speaker Apple ever made — and he might be right. It still sounds great.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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Tweets of the day
When you realise that Maps icon is nothing but top view of Apple Park
— Apple Design (@TheAppleDesign)
3:48 PM • Jun 30, 2025
People are using the “dead grandma trick” to get ChatGPT to give them working Windows 7 activation keys
— Olivia Moore (@omooretweets)
11:18 PM • Jun 29, 2025
I’m a big fan of the new #iOS26 keyboard with that liquid glassy background ! Who’s with me ?!👇🏻
— Minimal Nerd (@minimalnerd1)
4:58 PM • Jun 29, 2025
Apple made a beautiful book about their hardware history.
I still hope they’ll do the same for their interface design.Because the story of the Mac is also a story of pixels, icons, and the evolving idea of what a computer is.
🧵
— Michael Flarup (@flarup)
11:59 AM • Jun 30, 2025
iPod iPhone Cover
— David Delahunty (@Delahuntagram)
12:01 PM • Jun 27, 2025
Wallpaper of the day
New bird wallpaper:
— Yatimori (@Yatimori)
6:56 PM • Jun 26, 2025
One more thing ...
You just don’t want someone else to control a big part of the user experience. People may disagree with me, but I am pretty consistent about that.
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