What you need to know
- MacBook Air updated with TrueTone display, price dropped to $1,099 ($999 for students).
- Base-model MacBook Pro updated with Touch Bar, Touch ID, and Coffee Lake processors for the same $1,299 ($1,199 for students)
- 12-inch MacBook discontinued.
Apple is revving the MacBook Air, introduced last October, with a TrueTone display. Rather than update the other specs, though, Apple is pushing the price down to $1099. The "MacBook Escape" is also getting updated to full-on "MacBook No-Escape" with Touch Bar, Touch ID, and 8th gen Intel Coffee Lake processors, all for the same $1299.
Both are also getting the same, updated third-generation butterfly keyboard that debuted with the MacBook Pro revisions earlier this year.
And, since this is back to school season, Apple is giving students $100 off and throwing in a pair of Beats Studio 3 Wireless headphones with the purchase of a qualifying MacBook or iMac.
From Apple 's senior director of Mac Product Marketing, Tom Boger:
"College students love the Mac — it's the notebook they rely on from the dorm room to the classroom, and the No. 1 choice among higher education students. With a lower $999 student price for MacBook Air and the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro with faster performance, Touch Bar and Touch ID at $1,199 for students, there's never been a better time to bring a Mac to college."
We'll be diving into these new MacBooks ASAP so look forward to a ton of updates here soon as well. Any questions, drop them in the comments!
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