Why Apple killed the 12-inch MacBook — with a new Air and ProThe 12-inch MacBook is dead. So is the quote unquote "MacBook Escape". In place of the MacBook is now just the MacBook Air, newly updated with a True Tone display. In place of the Escape is Touch Bars, Touch ID, and T2 chips all the way down.
But does that make things simpler or even more complicated?
12-inch MacBook Pro
So, yeah, 12-inch MacBook is dead. Introduced in March of 2015, it was supposed to do for the next generation of MacBooks what the second generation Air had done in 2010. And it did. Kinda.
It introduced a new design, where the glowing Apple logo and FaceTime Camera quality were sacrificed to the gods of paper-thin top cases, with a terraced battery, and — you know it — the very first butterfly keyboard. But also, the Force Touch Trackpad, USB-C, and gold and then, rose gold, to the previous very black and white MacBook line.
Now, many of those changes, for good and for ill, are found across Apple's MacBook line. But, unlike the 2010 MacBook Air, w...
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Why Apple killed the 12-inch MacBook — with a new Air and Pro
