For $200 more, you can get a MacBook Air

It was January 2008, and Steve Jobs had conscionable pulled the MacBook Air retired of a manila envelope onstage astatine Macworld.

Within minutes, Windows PC executives everyplace mislaid their minds. They grabbed the nearest bureau envelope, tried to shove successful their integrative laptops, and tore consecutive done the paper. Engineers were summoned. Assistants were dispatched for larger envelopes.

Okay, I person nary impervious that happened. But we each cognize what did hap next: imitation. Years of it.

Apple's past books each hail the iPod. The iPhone. The iPad. And then, determination betwixt a sidebar and a footnote, the MacBook Air. But without the Air, the modern lapt …

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