{"id":2024,"date":"2026-02-25T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:15:22","slug":"apple-battling-rising-component-costs-in-low-cost-macbook-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/apple-battling-rising-component-costs-in-low-cost-macbook-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple battling rising component\u00a0costs\u00a0in low-cost MacBook production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/What-can-we-expect-from-Apples-rumored-new-MacBook-with-an-iPhone-processor.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Apple is expected to make multiple product announcements next week, culminating in a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/18\/apples-march-4-launch-event-new-products-and-what-to-expect\/\">special \u201cApple Experience\u201d<\/a> for the press on Wednesday. A new low-cost MacBook is rumored to be among the new products.<\/p>\n<p>A new report today from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20260225PD203\/apple-macbook-budget-component-2026.html\"><em>Digitimes<\/em><\/a> reaffirms Apple\u2019s work on a more affordable MacBook, and how the company is battling increasing component costs.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macbook\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1040684\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/25\/apple-battling-rising-component-costs-in-low-cost-macbook-production\/#more-1040684\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is expected to make multiple product announcements next week, culminating in a special \u201cApple Experience\u201d for the ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}