Snazzy Labs

"this is really exciting and it's going to sell like hotcakes for two reasons: $599 and $499 for students."

"I have no doubt that you will be able to find this on sale for under $500 at retailers nationwide with no education discount required"

"ships with an A18 Pro—last year's iPhone chip—which matches all but the best M-series chips in single-core performance while having similar multi-core performance to the original M1, but with a vastly better NPU."

"the base model does not come with Touch ID"

"it brings just 256GB of storage."

"what you can't add is the haptic touchpad, which appears to be gone entirely."