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Tim Cook has made us want to skip the weekend and get straight to the new launches Apple has for us starting on Monday. That might include a low-cost MacBook, but then further ahead there's a hint of a touch-screen MacBook Pro later this year, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.

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Links from the Show:

• How Apple will target consumers with budget MacBook, again
• Inexpensive MacBook is the perfect way to get users deeper into the Apple ecosystem
• Compromises for affordability ahead: Code leak spills details on new MacBook
• Rising memory & battery costs complicate Apple's lower-cost MacBook
• Touch-screen OLED MacBook Pro to get small Dynamic Island
• Experience F1 tracks with 3D art in Apple Maps ahead of each race
• Why Gen Z and young adults are embracing iPods again
• Nerds are fighting to bring back gadgets even as iPhone wants them dead
• If iPhone Fold is truly coming in 2026, expect big leaks very soon
• Right on schedule, test production of iPhone 18 Pro fires up
• iPhone Fold hinge crease will be about 1/4 the depth of the Galaxy Fold 7
• Expect at least five announcements during Apple's March launch week
• Apple has it