Apple may finally release a new 'low price' laptop — and it likely won't have its controversial touchscreen keyboard (AAPL)

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• Apple will release a new laptop model before the end of the year, according to a well-respected analyst at a Hong Kong bank. 
• The new computer will have a fingerprint reader but won't have Apple's controversial Touch Bar, according to the note seen by Business Insider. 
• The laptop will replace Apple's current 12-inch MacBook, according to the note. 

Apple has a new lower cost laptop in the works that will have a fingerprint sensor but not the company's widely panned touch-sensitive Touch Bar, according to a new research note from a widely respected and usually reliable financial analyst.

The new model would seem to fill a longstanding demand by Apple fans for a relatively inexpensive Mac laptop, but one that comes without the Touch Bar. The new laptop model will replace Apple's 12-inch MacBook model, which does not have a fingerprint scanner and starts at $1300, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note distributed Monday. 

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