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“A sweet little OS that kept your battery alive longer than most of us keep New Years resolutions.”
“It carried us into the Intel era and out the other side. Rest well, old friend.”
The Intel-based MacBook Pro arrived in 2006 as the successor to the PowerBook, swapping PowerPC chips for Intel Core processors, adding a webcam, and introducing the beloved MagSafe connector. Over the years it grew a unibody aluminum case machined from a single piece of metal, a Retina display that made everything else look blurry, and a click-everywhere trackpad. It was the higher-end Mac laptop, the machine people
Its run ended on October 18, 2021, after fifteen years and countless design reinventions — including, for better or worse, the Touch Bar era of 2016. Along the way it traded Ethernet, FireWire, and the optical drive for thinner bodies and solid-state drives. It didn't die so much as hand over the keys, leaving behind a generation of laptops that learned everything from it.
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“A sweet little OS that kept your battery alive longer than most of us keep New Years resolutions.”
“Rode cheaper than a coffee and never once blamed traffic on the schedule.”
“Born for a birthday, gone by spring: Mario never overstayed a party.”