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As part of the price increases, the MacBook Air moves from 256 GB of storage at the base to 512 GB, while the MacBook Pro goes to 1 terabyte at the base (2TB for the M5 Max models). The October M5 MacBook Pro 14-inch also goes up, from $1599 to $1699.

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A more aspirational version championed by Apple’s design team used even more glass, instead of metal, but was scrapped early on. The company encountered problems connecting glass panels together. The design didn’t hold up when Apple had to figure out how to mass-produce it.

In September, Apple is poised to debut its first foldable iPhone, a device that’s expected to cost $2,000-plus. A monthly price of somewhere between $60 and $70 for that phone will seem a lot more palatable.

Also in Power On: Major shortages hit the MacBook Air amid the memory and silicon crunch, with many new orders now not arriving until September. Apple appears to be prioritizing sales now of the entry level MacBook Pro. t.co

Looking ahead, there is ongoing work on a bigger rethink to the Apple Watch, but I wouldn’t expect that to arrive for another year or two. And Apple is still moving toward getting a blood-sugar feature to the market this decade, making good on a project conceived in the Jobs era.

Apple is also planning M5 Pro + M6 Mac mini and M5 Max + M5 Ultra Mac Studio, but their configurations and release timing are fairly tied to the memory shortage. Current models don’t ship for three months.