Yesterday Apple updated it’s notebook lineup. Let’s start from the good news, MacBook Air got True Tone and lowered price of $1099 (with additional $100 discount for students) and MacBook Pro got quad-core processor from the start and there is no MacBook Escape now – every MacBook Pro has a Touch ID and Touch Bar. The starting price of the device is $1299.
This makes things a little bit more clear, until you start to choose. For $1299, which will you choose, baseline MacBook Pro or MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM (as $200 is the price for doubling the original 8GB). As someone who has an 8GB MacBook Pro, I would kill for more RAM, especially when trying to open a bunch of tabs and making reports in the Excel. But MacBook Air processor is much slower under heavy load. On the other hand the battery on the Air is amazing and it is a bit lighter.
One would ask, but what about one-port MacBook, but there is none as of yesterday. Apple killed the most portable MacBook it had. So here is what Apple MacBook lineup looks like right now:
If you want Apple computer as of today you have a couple of choices – MacBook Air as a default for everyone, if you want something more fun and simple – iPad Pro and if you need something more powerful – MacBook Pro.
With cleaning up iPads a couple of months ago and this I like that Apple is bringing back a bit of focus to its products.