5 MacBook Update
Apple, as expected, debuted a refresh to the 13-inch MacBook Air at its Brooklyn event this week.
That device is impressively powerful for an ultralight notebook — and that fact has brought the future of Apple’s 12-inch MacBook into question.
Before the event, rumors suggested that Apple would refresh the 12-inch MacBook. But at this point, Apple’s thinnest and lightest notebook doesn’t make sense with the company’s 2018 lineup.
The new 13-inch MacBook Air is more powerful than the MacBook, and yet it actually retails for less. In fact, the 2018 MacBook Air refresh is more like a “MacBook Pro Lite” than the 12-inch notebook.
We don’t know what Apple has in store for the MacBook, but right now, the only thing that distinguishes it is its size.