This has been brewing for a while; rumours of a new, cheaper Mac laptop are firming up after Apple issued an invite for an event on October 14 that said "the spotlight turns to notebooks". Place your bets on whether that's a meatier MacBook Air, a new, even cheaper PlacBook MacBook or something else in the unsatisfactory MacBook Pro line. They've still never properly replaced the 12" PowerBook, and that has its own particular devotees that will demand a high-spec but very portable machine. MacBook Air and the 15" MacBook Pro just don't cut it.
Given the financial climate, a low-end notebook could chime well with investors, and The Inquisitor today claimed retailers have been given price lists for a new $800 machine. That would be the first Apple laptop under $1,000. We'll leave the deep geeks to contemplate this Loch Nessian photo of what may or may not be a new Apple laptop...
