No ability (yet, at least) to drive a Thunderbolt display. The new MacBook represented an even greater compromise.
It of course launched an even sleeker model, the 12-inch MacBook. The MacBook Air wasn’t the end of the company’s ambitions when it came to making a laptop as slim as humanly possible. But as things turned out, Apple had one surprise in store for me … It seemed to me then that the differences between the two ranges would continue to dwindle until there was really nothing to separate them. Both went SSD, both went non-upgradable RAM, neither had an optical drive, neither had an Ethernet port. But over the years, the Air got more powerful and the Pro started to make similar compromises in pursuit of a sleeker form-factor. When the MacBook Air was first launched, it made a lot of compromises to fit into that slim casing. Two years ago, I reckoned that the MacBook Air and Pro ranges would have merged by now. Trying to predict the future of technology is a risky endeavor at best, and never more so when attempting to do it with one of the most secretive companies in the field.īut never let it be said I don’t ‘fess up when my predictions don’t pan out.
