Apple's thin, fanless laptop line powered by Apple Silicon, sold in 13- and 15-inch sizes as the entry point of the MacBook range.
Google's Android-based Googlebook launched without Adobe's suite or the Linux support ChromeOS had, 9to5Google found in nearly a week of use. For teams buying work laptops, the Android apps it does run were the bigger problem in that testing.
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Amazon's Prime Day sale has the 13-inch M5 MacBook Air at $1,099, $200 off and level with its price before Apple's June increase. Mac refresh budgets should stay at the $1,299 list, since the cut only takes back this summer's hike.
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Apple's first touchscreen, tandem-OLED MacBook Pro is due by the end of November with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. For fleet buyers, the decision depends on who carries the laptop every day and whose work can wait for the next chip generation.
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Tom's Guide found the fanless chassis cool with three creative apps running at once, and calls the new Surfaces the closest Microsoft has come to the MacBook Air. The session covered heat, not endurance.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman does not expect a substantial redesign for the second-generation iPhone Duo. The comparison he reaches for is a MacBook Pro whose shape has been in the lineup since 2021.
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The Verge tested 8GB and 16GB XPS 13 units, both with 512GB SSDs, and recommended the $999.99 one. Dell has since moved the $699.99 entry price onto a 256GB machine and added $100 to both tested builds.
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Gizmodo's review puts the top Gram Pro 16 at $3,499 with no discrete graphics and battery life it calls middling, roughly $499 a seat above a similarly specced ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The weight it wins back is under an ounce.
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Apple is expected to show an OLED touchscreen Mac within weeks, and the case for the cheaper MacBook Pro surviving beside it rests on a single panel-supply line item, while the prices attached to both tiers are still somebody's guess.
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The Vero 16 unlatches without tools and takes two generations of Intel CPU, but Acer says it will do that upgrade work itself, and the machine arrives in Q1 2027 at MacBook Air money. That repairability comes as a paid tier, not as a standard feature.
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Apple dragged premium hardware into a budget price band. Wired's comparison says Dell has matched the entry price and beaten it on display, ports and keyboard.
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Electronics are now the biggest line item at $293 per student, 70% of parents call the cost a burden, and 23% reached for buy-now-pay-later to cover it.
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The Verge says the RAM and storage crunch will keep pushing prices up well into next year, because all the memory being made through 2027 is already allocated.
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A developer discarded a full data set after a sanity re-run disagreed by up to 54%. The problem was measurement order on a passively cooled chip, not noise.
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