![]() ![]() It doesn’t always wind up the way you’d expect. That’s one of many instances where Apple was clearly ahead of the curve. “Courage,” as the company infamously phrased it, when it dropped the headphone jack, back in 2016. As the MacBook has evolved, features have come and gone. But, in addition to the new features, it finds the company returning some old favorites that many in the community no doubt feared were long gone. The new model isn’t a kitchen-sink laptop - Apple doesn’t really do kitchen-sink devices. ![]() It’s a crowd-pleaser for longtime devotees who have stuck with the line through port feast and port famine. But the proprietary connector is an important microcosm. That distinction almost certainly belongs to the new M1 Pro and Max chips. MagSafe is hardly the most important arrival on the 2021 MacBook Pro. This is, I fully recognize, a strange place to begin a lengthy review of a new Pro-focused laptop. The version that Apple unceremoniously abandoned in 2017, with the arrival of the all-USB-C/Thunderbolt MacBook. Not the iPhone version (not to say that isn’t without its own charm) - the original. I don’t recall the last time I saw so many colleagues legitimately excited for one specific new feature. The reaction among TechCrunch staff was swift and, best I can tell, universal. ![]()
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