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The key to such a device is reducing the cost of the materials. The A18 Pro (according to Wikipedia) offers 8GB RAM and a (one) USB 3.2 controller. The RAM's enough to run Apple Intelligence and we've seen one-port notebooks before: the target audience will likely use it mostly for charging. HDMI comes in dongles, as does SD card and headphones if they're really necessary but the core device can just major on wireless (it's all in the A18 already).

There's money to be saved by using a slower SSD, just 256GB presumably. Ditto on display quality. Smaller trackpad?

Once upon a time, only upmarket Mac notebooks had metal cases, the rest had polycarbonate, so that's a possibility too. Now everything looks like a MacBook, a "plastic" case might even be an attraction, colours could be great! The thermals, without a fan presumably, would still be comfortably better than an iPhone so sustained performance would be better.

I can see a place for this as an entry machine, particularly if Applezulu is right about prospects in education too.

At least we won't have to worry about the weight. To complement its "extremely high-tech display", and following on from recent Pros' use of titanium frames, the iFold is to use a new light-weight alloy of Unobtainium that actually has negative mass. You heard it here first.

lowededwookie said:

Sweet. No all we need to do is hack every politician’s iCloud account and distribute all their photos and notes and search history so that they then realise they were not intelligent and the UK gets security again.

To be clear, the data on iCloud is still encrypted, it’s just that Apple now has the keys. So it would need two major breaches of Apple’s security (get to the data, get to the keys) to read it. The issue is that now the authorities (through a case by case legal process) can force Apple to offer up access to the (plain text) data. 

kkqd1337 said:

Disappointed in Apple here. They should have stood up to the UK Government and just said no. 

Apple obeys the law in countries where it trades. That’s got to be the correct stance. Trouble is, this particular law is difficult because it does, in some cases, actually support doing good.