For five months in 2008, it was the best-selling laptop of any brand in US retail stores. ĭuring its existence, it was the best-selling Mac in Apple's history.

Apple continued to sell the MacBook to educational institutions until February 2012. Successive revisions of the MacBook were sold to consumers between May 2006 and July 2011, by which time it been superseded by the MacBook Air which had a lower entry price. It was aimed at the consumer and education markets. During its existence, it was the most affordable Mac, serving as an entry-level laptop that was less expensive than the rest of the Mac laptop lineup (the MacBook Pro portable workstation, and later the MacBook Air ultra-portable). Models named 'MacBook' MacBook (2006–2012) Īs part of the Mac transition to Intel processors, Apple released a 13-inch laptop simply named 'MacBook', as a successor to the PowerPC-based iBook series of laptops. It was again discontinued in July 2019 following a price reduction of the 3rd generation MacBook Air and discontinuation of the 2nd generation model. The MacBook was discontinued from February 2012 until March 2015, when a new model featuring an ultraportable design and an all-metal enclosure was introduced. All of the current MacBooks feature backlit keyboards. The Memory, drives, and batteries were accessible in the old MacBook lineup, though the newest compact lineup solders or glues all such components in place. The lids of the MacBook family are held closed by a magnet with no mechanical latch, a design element first introduced with the polycarbonate MacBook. The now standardized keyboard brings congruity to the MacBook line, with black keys on a metallic aluminum body. This new construction also has a black plastic keyboard that was first used on the MacBook Air, which itself was inspired by the sunken keyboard of the original polycarbonate MacBooks. The MacBook family was initially housed in designs similar to the iBook and PowerBook lines which preceded them, now making use of a unibody aluminum construction first introduced with the MacBook Air. The MacBook brand was the 'world's top-selling line of premium laptops' as of 2015. Two different lines simply named 'MacBook' existed from 2006 to 20 to 2019. The current lineup consists of the MacBook Air (2008–present) and the MacBook Pro (2006–present). It replaced the PowerBook and iBook brands during the Mac transition to Intel processors, announced in 2005. that use Apple's macOS operating system since 2006. The MacBook is a brand of Mac notebook computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc.

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