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 Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects an all-new, more-affordable MacBook model powered by an iPhone chip to launch next year.
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Prime Day falls on July 8-11, but we've already found great deals on WIRED-tested products—from Apple Watches to Amazon Devices—at some of their lowest prices ever.
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The Zenbook A14 is basically Asus' answer to the MacBook Air, with Asus representatives even telling me that the "A" very unofficially stands for Air. It's a 14-inch model with an incredibly light weight of just 2.16 pounds (or 0.98 kilograms if you live in a civilized country). This base model is running on a Snapdragon X chip with 16GB of RAM, and though the 1200p display is a gorgeous OLED panel, it doesn't have a touchscreen. It's packing 512GB of storage.
You can read all about this laptop in Chris Hoffman's review of it for PCWorld. In short, it's tiny, it's featherlight, it has a unique "ceraluminum" finish that makes it stand out, and the battery life is absolutely astonishing—70 watt-hours in a laptop this small gives it a full 24 hours in a standardized battery test. For downsides, that 8-core Snapdragon X chip (the slowest of these Arm-based options) won't blow anyone away, and it might just refuse to play some 3D-based games. (Note that this model sold by Best Buy isn't the same one in the review. It's a lighter sand color and has half the RAM and storage, 16GB/512GB, respectively.)
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It's earnings season, and automakers are warning investors about the impact tariffs will have on vehicle pricing. As first reported by Reuters, the cost of Ford's Mustang Mach-E, Ford's electric SUV, could rise by as much as $2,000 on some models.
Ford manufactures the Mach-E as well as other non-electric models in Mexico, which are now tariffed when sold in the United States. Aside from the Mach-E, Ford estimates that it will take a $1.5 billion hit from current tariff policy.
The Trump administration has long insisted that tariffs are not paid for by the American consumer, and while the company made clear it was absorbing some of the increased cost, it could not absorb all of it.A Ford spokesperson told Reuters that the price increase is partly due to typical mid-year repricing "combined with some tariffs we are facing. We have not passed on the full cost of tariffs to our customers."
Despite the administration's partial acquiescence to automakers last week in softening the blow on auto tariffs, EV makers Rivian and Lucid have said higher costs are coming. Rivian's CEO shared that he expects vehicle pricing to rise by "a couple of thousand dollars," while Lucid's interi
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