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Title: MacBook Air: Why didn’t it die? Post by: HCK on July 12, 2019, 04:05:16 pm MacBook Air: Why didn’t it die?
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Sixteen months ago I wrote a eulogy, of a sort (https://www.macworld.com/article/3261125/macbook-air-why-wont-it-die.html) for the MacBook Air. My all-time favorite Apple laptop was a living fossil, a non-Retina USB-A laptop in a sea of shiny new Apple tech. Apple had done a minor processor update to keep it on life support and there were rumors that another one was in the offing. The long goodbye was becoming endless.</p><p>But something funny happened on the way to the abattoir: The MacBook Air not only got a reprieve and a Retina upgrade (https://www.macworld.com/article/3317496/2018-macbook-air-specs-price-release-date-faq.html), but with Tuesday’s update to the Apple laptop line (https://www.macworld.com/article/3407800/apple-kills-macbook-non-touch-bar-macbook-pro-notebook-shakeup.html), it’s killed off both of its putative replacements (https://www.macworld.com/article/3407711/the-12-inch-macbook-is-dead-and-it-will-be-missed.html).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3407747/macbook-air-why-didnt-it-die.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: MacBook Air: Why didn’t it die? (https://www.macworld.com/article/3407747/macbook-air-why-didnt-it-die.html#tk.rss_all) |