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Apple Might Discontinue the MacBook Air (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Just in time for its tenth anniversary, Apple might finally be killing the MacBook Air, according to a new report from Digitimes. If this is true, it'd be the first axing of a laptop line from Apple since the iBook and Powerbook were axed back in 2006. It would also be about damn time. Apple quietly killed the 11-inch MacBook Air back in 2016, but the larger 13-inch version has lingered on, getting a mild processor refresh last year that still left the laptop using a 5th generation Intel processor. That's three generations behind the processors currently found in the MacBook Air's competition, and it is the primary reason the laptop was excluded from our piece looking at the best laptop to be had for under $1000.
An iPad can not replace a MacBook. It runs different OSes, different App(-lications).
You can not even import the data from a backup from a laptop onto/into the iPad. (Of course you could both have connected to the cloud and synch the essentials)
But perhaps you mean, people who have no serious use for a MacBook, could use an iPad instead.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
The linked article from Digitimes is titled "New MacBook to boost LCM orders for GIS" and the first statement is "Touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) is expected to land more LCM (LCD module) orders from Apple, which reportedly plans to release an entry-level 13-inch MacBook in the second half of 2018, according to industry sources.". Nowhere does the article state that the MacBook is being discontinued. #clickbait
I use a 13" MacBook Air for Java development, works fine.
It has 8GB RAM and the hard disk interface seems to be faster than that of my linux PC at work.
At least similar big builds are on my Air similar fast as on the PC.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
The 2016-2017 15" MBP has more I/O capability than any other laptop, period.
Given sufficient dongles...
You can break-out its 4 TB3/USB-C Ports into a myriad of configurations of up to FIFTY-SIX SIMULTANEOUS "legacy" I/O Ports.
Hold donglestorm batman!
Name one other laptop that can do that.
Name one other laptop that can do something no one cares about by carrying around a bunch of shite that no one wants to carry around?
Meanwhile, the Carbon X1 has 2 TB ports, 2 USB3, full size HDMI, micro SD and micro SIM, so you can do all you want without a bag of annoying dongles to sort through.
It's also faster, lighter has a MUCH nicer keyboard and comes with up to 1TB flash, more than the 13 inch MBP.
And it comes with a cli... uh trackpoint.
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