The last-gen Air stays in the lineup, for now, and remains the least expensive Mac laptop for cash-strapped students and schools. While this may be a rare way to recharge a laptop, you would need to do so if the battery is depleted. A Reddit user has managed to find out the reason for the high throttling seen in the 2018 Apple MacBook Pros with the Intel Core i9 CPU and it turns out that it is due to power throttling of the. The new Air, however, will start at just $100 less at $1,199 for the base model, and is now the cheapest Apple laptop with a Retina display. Based on Reddit threads, some MacBook Pro 16 machines will not recharge when switched off. The Air was somewhat supplanted by the thinner, lighter 12-inch MacBook model, despite a starting price around $1,299.
It is, however, the cheapest Apple laptop starting at $999 and frequently found for less. The old 13-inch MacBook Air, with its processor that's three generations behind and thick bezels around its low-res 1,440x900-pixel display, was last updated in 2017 and hasn't really changed physically since the first model in 2008. These updates were much needed, but they definitely add to the laptop's overall price. Apple's new offerings: Can features, specs retain business momentum? (ZDNet).