1/23/2024 0 Comments Macbook retina 12 inch 2016![]() ![]() If Apple ditched it here too, I wouldn't miss it. I'm still not sure if I consider it a regression or not. ![]() The word "MacBook" appears at the bottom, something Apple has stopped doing with the more recent MacBook Pro iterations. It looks fine, as arrays of what I imagine must be laser hewn dots go, and it sounds fine too. There's also a speaker grid now between the screen and the keyboard. It's minimal but not as minimal as television sets and some competing laptops. The screen bezel is black glass like the MacBook Pro, not aluminum like the MacBook Air. The overall effect, at the risk of further abusing the metaphor, is something that looks even more like it was poured from liquid metal. For now, though, if you want everyone to know you have the latest and greatest MacBook, you want rose gold. Maybe we'll see metallic blue or purple one day as well. And it stands out, considerably against the drab plastics that continue to plague laptop cases everywhere, but even against other Apple finishes. Depending on the light, it can look more rose - read: pink - more gold, or even more copper or silver. Rose gold debuted with iPhone 6s and Apple Watch sport and this spring came to the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and MacBook as well. Here's how it looks compared to Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air and Pro. It is, however, a new and improved unibody. The new MacBook is still a unibody, like the last major MacBook redesign, and still comes with all the structural benefits of being formed from a single piece of aluminum. More remarkably, the thinness and lightness doesn't come at the price of solidity. That makes the MacBook the lightest, thinnest laptop Apple has ever sold, and for everyone who remembers Steve Jobs sliding the original MacBook Air out of an envelope, that's saying something. That's about the weight of the original iPad with a case on it. When you do hold it, you get a palpable sense of just how small the new MacBook really is. After a few stray deletions, tabs, quotes, and slashes, I switched to grabbing it lower down, at trackpad level, or from underneath. The first few times I picked up the new MacBook I found myself accidentally depressing keys - there's almost no bezel on the sides. ![]() It does take some getting used to, though. ![]()
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