Apple is creating a low-cost MacBook sequence to compete with Chromebook fashions within the training sector that might be launched as early because the second half of 2024, claims a brand new report out of Taiwan.

In line with DigiTimes‘ business sources, Apple will probably launch the brand new product line to distinguish it from the corporate’s present MacBook Air and Professional strains. The outer look will nonetheless use a metallic casing however shall be product of “totally different supplies” and the price of the mechanical elements shall be decrease, claims the report.

The launch timeframe for the alleged new MacBook sequence seems to be primarily based on an absence of associated exercise at main Apple suppliers like Quanta Pc and Foxconn, making a launch within the first half of subsequent yr unlikely.

Over 13.9 million Chromebooks had been shipped in 2019, rising to over 30.4 million in 2020 and 33.5 million in 2021, in line with DigiTimes Analysis, highlighting the recognition of Google’s low-cost laptops within the training sector, particularly throughout and across the international pandemic.

Chromebook shipments are mentioned to have slowed for the reason that finish of lockdowns, however the scale of shipments remains to be bigger than earlier than COVID. The variety of academic establishments which have adopted Chromebooks over the previous couple of years can also be mentioned to have seen fast progress, particularly when in comparison with Apple’s iPads, gross sales of which have lagged within the training market.

That is the primary rumor now we have heard that Apple is actively creating a brand new MacBook sequence that the corporate will worth under its extra premium MacBook choices, so expectations ought to stay guarded till we obtain corroboration from different sources.