Click to viewAlright, so I was fairly impressed with the Macworld keynote. Lots of neat little bits, and the MacBook Air is a pretty amazing sliver of a machine. But it’s not what many of us had hoped for. All I really wanted for Macworld was a 13-inch MacBook Pro. A serious but compact workhorse, not a sexy will-o-the-wisp. And now I’m too scared to even buy the current 15-inch MacBook Pro. Why?
https://gizmodo.com/macworld-2008-keynote-live-344646
Because the MacBook Air’s coolest feature—other than its anorexia—is the multitouch trackpad, and Jobs knows it will probably pop up in a MacBook Pro refresh in just a few months. It’s a simple formula:
Multitouch trackpad + green components + PowerBook-like black keyboard + redesigned case = dream machine.
Let’s not forget Penryn chips, either, which mean more speed and less power suckage. Actually, since the inevitable MBP update is now at least a few months out, we’ll probably see it launch with Intel’s Montevina platform, the successor to Santa Rosa which is expected in May.
https://gizmodo.com/intel-talks-up-quad-core-mobile-chip-fancy-new-cooling-311096
Though these are all reasons to wait for the next wave of MacBook Pros, I can’t help but worry that a smaller MBP may never come. Apple likes to keep things nice and differentiated. I want a tight little beast of a machine, but there’s already a small MacBook and now here comes the Air, with its feather-light weight and fairy specs. This reminds me of the iPod crisis last fall: Apple, why can’t you give us one machine that does it all?
