<story><title>Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ValentineC</author><text>Discussion from a similar post: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20393236&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20393236&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>Macbook Pro &amp;quot;improvements&amp;quot; over the last 3-7 years:&lt;p&gt;* No more matte display&lt;p&gt;* RAM soldered to the board&lt;p&gt;* SSD soldered in&lt;p&gt;* remove all ports except USB-C&lt;p&gt;* make keyboard worse&lt;p&gt;* remove function keys, replace with touch surface that&amp;#x27;s redundant at best&lt;p&gt;But it&amp;#x27;s very thin!&lt;p&gt;And even thinner was the recent Macbook, and if the law of &amp;quot;diminishing returns&amp;quot; matters as little as the usual defenses of all the above tradeoffs in pursuit of light&amp;#x2F;thin imply, you&amp;#x27;d think that that&amp;#x27;d be worth keeping.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a limit, and Apple&amp;#x27;s actually reflected on that?&lt;p&gt;Or... maybe it&amp;#x27;s just a recognition that the Air and Macbook had come to a place where there was little distinguishing them. And that really, the MBP is less and less designed&amp;#x2F;deployed with actual professionals in mind and more and more meant for a prosumer subsegment. In which case reducing focus to two models (general purpose consumer laptop, light netbook) makes sense.</text></comment>