[OSX-Users] Re: new 15 retina - it does seem very nice in the hands

[Andrew Paul Landells]

On 23 Jun 2012, at 20:06, Philip Boulain wrote:
> On 23/06/2012 18:34, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>> It's 4.5lbs (so 2k) and that sounds heavy after a 2lb Air - but in the hands it didn't feel much more heavy than the 13 air.
>> I know it IS but it doesn't feel it.  And it is noticeably thinner than the current macbook pros.
> 
> Wait.
> 
> Wasn't there a *massive* hoo-hah about how the point of the Air was that the weight difference vs the Pros, which utterly dominated it in OS X-flavoured-functionality-per-buck, was important?

Yes, there was. Past tense. The current crop of Airs are at the budget end of the Apple laptop range and it appears that Apple are bringing the two ranges in line with one another. It wouldn't surprise me if we see Apple consolidate to a single range of laptops, in 11", 13" and 15" flavours in the non-too-distant future.

Regards,
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Andrew Paul Landells
Team Leader, iSolutions Technical Innovation and Developments Team
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