Marcel Winatschek

The New Ones

Apple finally refreshed the portable Macs, and it’s exactly what everyone’s been predicting. Glass trackpad, LED backlighting, NVidia graphics. They’re doubling down on that iMac design language, which evidently not everyone’s on board with.

The discussions are heating up everywhere—forums, chats, blogs. The specs are fine. The trackpad will either be brilliant or terrible depending on who you ask. The display’s become a point of argument. And the design itself pulls the room in different directions. You’ve got the Jonathan Ive is a god crowd and then you’ve got people already hunting for their old MacBook on eBay, convinced they want nothing to do with this.

I’m undecided. Might buy one. Might chase down the older version instead. Or this whole generation might just pass me by without sticking. They’re shipping today, so I’ve got time to think about it.