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The Surface Laptop Go is cheaper than an A14-powered iPad Air with a keyboard attachment. I don’t think any theoretical A14X-powered MacBook Air will be in the
by OldHand2018 6y ago
The Surface Laptop Go is cheaper than an A14-powered iPad Air with a keyboard attachment. I don’t think any theoretical A14X-powered MacBook Air will be in the same price range as the Surface Laptop Go.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThe iPhone SE, Apple Watch SE, and entry level iPad all offer a relatively inexpensive entry level option to their respective product lines. Is there any reason to believe Apple won't apply the same pricing strategy to an Apple Silicon Macbook Air?
- OldHand2018 6y agoThey might and it would be great if they did. But don't you think that such a laptop would receive the A14 rather than the A14X? The reviews for the Surface Go Laptop are hilariously bad, as they are reviewing if it were intended to be a gaming or power user device. That's insane. It's a cheap, small, touchscreen laptop for doing schoolwork and writing Word documents - and probably the best one you can buy in that price range. I got one for my kids; once you uninstall the god-awful Skype and Mail apps, it runs silently all day long. The 3:2 screen makes writing Word documents much nicer than any similarly-sized widescreen laptop. Etc. Anyway, I don't think that the MacBook Air would be positioned with this is a competitor. Apple tends to avoid this price range.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThe initial Bloomberg leak that predated any announcement from Apple said that the entry level laptop chip would feature 8 big cores and 4 little cores and not 4+4 arrangement in this iPad Pro version of their chip. Moving down to the iPad Pro version of the chip, given it's more than adequate performance, would already leave more pricing wiggle room.