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It's still made primarily of aluminum, which Apple will sell you in space gray, silver, gold, and rose gold finishes (the MacBook Pro still only comes in space gray and silver). On the outside, not much has changed about the MacBook's design. It's still a two-pound slip of a laptop with a 12-inch 2304×1440 screen. Specs at a glance: 2017 MacBookġ.1GHz Intel Core m3-7Y32 (Turbo up to 3.0GHz)ġ1.04" × 7.74" × 0.14-0.52" (280.5 mm × 196.5 mm × 3.5-13.1 mm)Ĥ80p webcam, backlit keyboard with second-gen butterfly switches, dual integrated mics, Force Touch trackpad I still wish Apple would drop the price a couple hundred dollars and put the MacBook Air out of its misery, but even at $1,299 the MacBook has become a respectable mainstream laptop. Two years later, hardware improvements and the passage of time have made me more enthusiastic about the MacBook's virtues and less bothered by its trade-offs. To these, it added a super-shallow keyboard that you could get accustomed to but never really enjoy.

And its underpowered processor made it feel like a three- or four-year-old MacBook Air rather than a brand-new computer. It only had one port, and that port was a brand-new one that demanded the use of docks and dongles. You could levy most of the same complaints at the 2015 version of the Retina Macbook, the Air's spiritual successor its problems weren't quite as bad, but they were basically the same ones. Further Reading The 2015 MacBook previews a future that’s not quite here
