Apple discontinued the white polycarbonate MacBook Wednesday, leaving the 11-inch MacBook Air as the low-cost laptop in Apple's product line-up.

The announcement Tuesday of the $999 white polycarbonate MacBook was pretty ho-hum as product refreshes go (same price, same color as before) but the implication was important: Apple is ...

Apple is reportedly planning a more affordable MacBook powered by the same processor as the iPhone 16 Pro. It sounds ...

For Apple to eventually get around to giving its low-price option an upgrade isn't necessarily surprising. What exactly the updates will mean for the white, polycarbonate MacBook remains to be seen.

I bought my first Mac at the end of summer in 2009. Apple still sold laptops in polycarbonate, but aluminum was clearly the direction of the future. A few months prior, a friend was deciding which ...

The white polycarbonate MacBook got me through college, a MacBook Air replaced it in my mid-20s, and then I graduated to a MacBook Pro when I needed to do more processor-intensive tasks for work.