Turns out you can actually get a MacBook Pro on sale for $424.97 (instead of $1,499). This low-cost laptop is equipped with a 2.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD.

For example, when Apple outfitted last year's MacBook Pro models with the M3 chip, critics expressed disappointment that the entry-level configuration only offered 8GB of RAM. "Apple has lost its ...