Low-cost MacBook, Siri upgrades
9to5Mac Daily
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, poss $699 pricing
- Here's when ChatGPT integration within Apple Intelligence will use GPT-5
- Gurman: All-new App Intents feature and Siri overhaul on track to launch next spring
- Apple working with these apps to prepare for next-gen Siri
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Monday, August 11th, 2025. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
| 0:12.4 | Leading off today, we talked back in June about how Apple is allegedly working on a new entry-level MacBook, powered by the A18 Pro chip rather than an M-series chip. |
| 0:23.4 | This would be the first time that Apple has released a Mac powered by an A-series chip and the |
| 0:28.7 | first time it ever offered a MacBook below 999. |
| 0:32.8 | Now, a new supply chain report says that the first stage of production of this machine is set to begin |
| 0:38.6 | sometime next month with full-scale manufacturing, potentially in progress by the end of the year. |
| 0:45.3 | The report comes from Digitimes and says, quote, Apple is preparing to shake up the notebook |
| 0:50.3 | market with an all-new ultra-low-cost MacBook, according to supply chain sources. |
| 0:56.1 | Some components are expected to enter mass production by the end of the third quarter, |
| 1:00.4 | a schedule that could see full system assembly begin before the end of the year. |
| 1:05.0 | End quote. |
| 1:05.9 | Then, this MacBook in question would likely go on sale in 2026. |
| 1:13.2 | The report speculates that the new MacBook could cost between $599 and $699, making it dramatically cheaper than the current entry-level |
| 1:19.7 | price for the MacBook Air at $1,000. In terms of specs, we expect that A18 Pro Chip, alongside |
| 1:26.4 | a 12.9-inch display, making it slightly smaller |
| 1:30.2 | than the 13.6 inch screen used on the MacBook Air. There's still a lot of unknowns about this |
| 1:36.2 | machine, and pricing is one of the biggest things that should be treated with some skepticism, |
| 1:41.1 | but at least based on the latest supply chain indications, Apple is indeed working |
| 1:46.4 | on a lower-cost laptop, powered by an iPhone processor. |
| 1:50.9 | Next up today, last week, OpenAI announced GPT5, its latest model to power chat GPT. |
| 1:57.9 | The new frontier model is a significant leap forward in a lot of areas, and it also has |
| 2:02.8 | implications for Apple, as Apple integrates chat GPT as part of the Apple intelligence experience. You can |
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