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Rael Hornby

Dear Apple, it's 2025, where’s my MacBook SE?

Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Chip.

Maybe I've been influenced by a little too much Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but with a new year ahead I'm awakening my inner archeologist to dust off one of the most interesting MacBook rumors of the last few years to ask: Where's my MacBook SE?

The knee-jerk reaction to this concept is outright dismissal. After all, we're mentally programmed to understand that MacBooks and "budget-friendly" go together about as well as a back massage from an elephant—with starting prices often a mirage that masks the increased costs of required upgrades that better suit modern computing.

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