I think a lot of the new MacBook’s critics don’t realize that this third box has been added to the matrix and are judging an ultralight Mac as a consumer grade Mac. The MacBook air is the consumer laptop and the new MacBook is the new ultralight.
The MacBook Pro ticks the pro laptop box. I look at the introduction of last week’s new MacBook as another temporary introduction of a third category Apple laptop. Within a few years, the MacBook Air got a substantial redesign and became the Apple consumer laptop and the “MacBook” got taken to a farm in the country. Nevertheless, the third category was introduced and a lot of people did buy the new MacBook Air. There was much wringing of hands over why the new MacBook Air didn’t make sense.
But looking back, that original MacBook Air was also RAM constrained and saddled with the slowest hard drive that had shipped in a Mac for years. One of the big deals at the time was the optical drive, which almost sounds funny in 2015.
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