![]() ![]() It was a different type of premium portable than a MacBook Pro, focused on a remarkably svelte (for the time) form factor. When it debuted in 2008, the MacBook Air was a premium portable, starting at $1799 with an 80 GB hard drive, and going up to $3098 for a version with a faster CPU and 64 GB of SSD storage. The original MacBook Air threw a monkey wrench in this simple lineup, though. ![]() Lower-priced for consumers, higher-priced for pros. Then, in the Intel era, plastic MacBooks and aluminum MacBook Pros. For most of the modern era at Apple, the company’s Mac portable lineup has been simple, dating back to Steve Jobs’s 4-square product matrix in 1998. Then the MacBook Air would just go away and Apple would have just MacBooks (no adjective) and MacBook Pros. My expectation for the last few years is that Apple has been keeping the MacBook Air around only until the 12-inch MacBook could drop in price to $999. TheyĪsked not to be identified discussing products still in Version that Apple uses on other products, the people said. Will remain about 13-inches, will be a higher-resolution “Retina” Will include thinner bezels around the screen. The new laptop will look similar to the current MacBook Air, but I’m still thinking about Monday’s report from Mark Gurman and Debby Wu at Bloomberg regarding “a new low-cost laptop” coming later this year from Apple. Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing Wednesday, 22 August 2018 ![]()
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