Remember back when Apple introduced

the unbelievably-thin Macbook Air

by pulling it out of the manila envelope?

Here's the next chapter to that story.

This is the new Macbook.

It is unbelievably, ridiculously, eye-poppingly thin.

But with Intel's entry-level Core M processor,

it places more focus on portability than on power.

It's also crazy expensive, starting at $1299.

That price for what is, let's face it, a netbook,

has led some people to mock Apple

for releasing essentially the Vespa of laptops.

This is a luxury machine, a fancy toy

for people who like fancy toys.

But with this new Macbook, Apple

is also making a couple of huge bets

on the future of the PC.

For one thing, that it's going to be wireless.

The Macbook has only a single USB-C port

and a headphones jack.

The PC of the future is also apparently going to be smaller.

The screen and bezels are a little shrunk

from the standard 13-inch Macbook Air,

which means Apple could fit a 12-inch display

into a really small body.

It's only a half-inch thick at its biggest point,

and less than a quarter-inch at the front

of the wedge-shaped machine.

It weighs just a hair over two pounds,

and it feels almost impossible

that a laptop could be this light.

I can't recommend this Macbook to everyone yet.

It's for a certain user, in a certain tax bracket

with certain power needs.

And I mean, come on, it comes in gold,

and silver, and space gray.

But this is a signal of what Apple thinks

is the future of the PC.

That first Air came out, and everyone went nuts

over the missing optical drive or the lack of FireWire.

But over time, Apple was proven right.

And if Apple's right again, and I suspect it is,

we're not far from the next generation of PCs,

where ports and docks will be replaced

by cloud storage and wireless devices.

And that is really good news.

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