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Originally Posted by Robo
Does the current MacBook Air feel weirdly like a rush job to anyone else? Like that weird 2009 plastic unibody MacBook. You really do get the sense that in Apple's ideal world, it wouldn't exist, and they'd just have the petite 12-inch and then the 13-inch "Pro." And then people just kept on buying comically outdated Airs, so they felt they had to do something.
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Right.
The MacBook didn’t take the world by storm. Its volume was low, leading to high cost, and Apple was too proud to eat into the margin. And then to add to the injury, Cannonlake basically gets canceled.
The current Air was an emergency plan B.