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The MacBook Air is Redundant
A Statement of Apple Being Replaced by Another
Earlier I wrote why the Mac Pro isn’t for everyday users but for power users that work in industries and need a behemoth of processing power for their day to day tasks. Now I will tell you why the Macbook Air is becoming the most unnecessary piece of hardware in Apple’s lineup.
The Macbook Air was launched in 2008 and claimed by Steve Jobs as the world’s thinnest notebook. It replaced the ‘Macbook’ range of laptops and was a laptop aimed at users who we’re vying for the more powerful MacBook Pro and just needed a machine that could do simple tasks such as run office apps and browse the internet. Haters called the MacBook Air “the most expensive laptop to browse Facebook on” whilst MacBook Pro users disregarded their little siblings as casual users.
After years of being relevant, the changes in the Apple product line up and hardware progression started to blur the lines of the MacBook Air’s place.
It Lost its Spot in the Lineup
The MacBook line up was very straight forward in its early days. It was part of Job’s plan to simplify the lineup with Consumer and Pro users as his segregation. As per his famous grid, he was going to create a product for that suits the needs of each user type.
If you were a simple “consumer” user that needed a portable laptop that ran Mac OS you would buy the MacBook Air. If you were a “pro” user that needed a portable laptop that could run heavier software such as Adobe’s Creative Suite you would opt for the more powerful MacBook Pro.
Over time the Macbook Air got the upgrades that all MacBooks did in the lineup such as Retina displays, Solid State Drives and faster connectivity ports making it a good contender against the MacBook Pro. Later versions of the Macbook Air could run resource-heavy software, the hardware itself wasn’t designed for it with less cooling facilities and weaker chipsets but you could still make do.
The pricing of both items also played a significant part. In the earlier days, there was…
