![]() ![]() I would say it's the best tech device I've ever bought. Writing this currently on a 11" Macbook Air 2013 i7. But it definitely makes me a lot happier with my decision. I've never looked back but I thought it would be interesting today to check out Apple's big laptop announcement. I went all in with an iPad Pro 12.9 earlier this year, sold my Retina MacBook, and gave away my 11-inch MacBook Air. But if you look at the Apple Store right now, these are the kinds of prices and relatively mediocre specs compared to machines in the Windows world that we haven't seen in years, and it wasn't a good combination back then, either. (Not to mention their dicey battery life in their first iteration.) Now we're supposed to get excited about Apple deprecating their computer line with the longest battery life and adding several hundred dollars to the cost of a MacBook Pro in order to have a half inch tall strip of a touchscreen? This is all just a sick joke to get Mac OS users to throw up their hands and go all in with iOS, right? Being an Apple fan over as many years as I have has never been easy. Or the terrible ergonomics of the Retina MacBooks for which Apple touted a thinness and a compactness of frame that ensures they will never be comfortable to use on an average-sized American lap. It's depressing enough that both the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, and really, the iPhone lately, have form factors that have barely changed over years. ![]() I don't think Tim Cook really gets the emotional elements of product design. My 11 inch MacBook Air was my favorite computer of every Apple laptop I have ever had in 15 years except for my Wall Street and Pismo. ![]()
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