The low end Mac isn’t about the hardware. It’s about being the cheapest possible entry level thing required to get the macOS developer experience, ie being able

The low end Mac isn’t about the hardware. It’s about being the cheapest possible entry level thing required to get the macOS developer experience, ie being able to compile iPhone apps, run Selenium over Safari or whatever. At the end of the day, they aren’t really selling it for the hardware. Otherwise it’d be like 6mm thick, half the footprint and three times as fast.