Forget the mythical iPad Pro. Rather than follow Microsoft’s ill-advised Surface Pro into a snap-on tablet cul-de-sac, Apple is sticking to what really works. It has melded the finest technologies from the latest MacBooks and state-of-the-art iPad Air into an iPad-sized clamshell notebook. And simply called it MacBook.
The essential form follows that of the unibody MacBook Air, with a solid aluminium body that’s been precisely milled into a slim all-metal wedge. But this machine is smaller, lighter, even slimmer than the 11-inch MacBook Air – despite sporting a larger 12-inch display.
The new MacBook takes the name once assigned to the cheapest non-Pro Apple