In a short time, the shiny, white, plastic MacBooks could be seen dotting the tables of cafés all across the world, staking their claim to counter space alongside lattes and gourmet muffins. It replaced Apple's everyday laptop, the iBook, and the professional model, the PowerBook - two laptops that had been popular, but not nearly as successful as the MacBook went on to be. As of July 9, 2019, the MacBook series has been discontinued again.In the spring of 2006, Apple unveiled the MacBook, a 13-inch (33-centimeter) laptop that would soon become a phenomenon. The MacBook line was discontinued in Mid 2010, when the MacBook Air took up the role of Apple's consumer laptop line and was re-released in 2015 with a single USB-C port. The MacBook Unibody is a hybrid of the original MacBook and the MacBook Air, packing all the features of the MacBook into a more stylish and lighter weight aluminum enclosure. To create an incredibly thin and light machine, Apple made a number of compromises, including omitting the optical drive, using a 1.8" hard drive (normal is 2.5"), and integrating the RAM into the logic board, preventing future RAM upgrades.Īfter more than two years and numerous incremental upgrades, Apple announced a completely new MacBook model in October 2008, the MacBook Unibody. The MacBook Air, touted as the world's thinnest notebook, featured an aluminum enclosure. The standard MacBook model came in a white plastic enclosure, while the high-end model was also offered with a black enclosure.Ī completely new design was added to the family in January 2008 with the release of the three pound MacBook Air.
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