{"id":14149,"date":"2012-06-15T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=14149"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:29:21","slug":"was-the-15-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-originally-a-macbook-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/14149-was-the-15-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-originally-a-macbook-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display Originally a MacBook Air?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something doesn\u2019t sit right with me about the 15-inch\u00a0MacBook Pro with Retina Display. More than the Retina display web image issues. This is the first Apple laptop in a loooooong line of Apple laptops that DOES NOT have the name of the computer at the bottom bezel of the screen.<\/p>\n

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Take a look at the screen on any Mac laptop all the way back to the original Macintosh Portable Quadra and the PowerBook 100, through iBook, PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro. With all of those models, you\u2019ll see a name on the bottom of the bezel. The only exceptions were the PowerBook 2300C from 1992 and the PowerBook 280c from 1995 which had the name above the keyboard next to the display lid.<\/p>\n

It may be a bit conspiracy theorist, but I\u2019m thinking there\u2019s more to the missing screen label on the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display other than Sir Jonny Ive and Co. going for an ultra austere look.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d venture out on a limb to say that I think the MacBook Pro with Retina display may have originally been planned as a MacBook Air of some type. The name\/family designation probably wasn\u2019t decided on early enough in the production process requiring them to continue production on the glass \u201csans-moniker\u201d.<\/p>\n

It Makes More Sense<\/strong>
\nAs a MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro with Retina display actually makes more sense. Granted, its beefy processor and dedicated graphics card certainly empowers it to \u201cPro\u201d status, but what if to Apple, the screen being so good pushed them to switch it out to a Pro machine by using a pro level processor and graphics card. After all, if they were thinking truly new and out of the box, why not make it a dual quad processor 8-core machine, dual SSD upgradable laptop, or something like that. There\u2019s certainly battery life to spare.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a huge Apple fan, but I know when something doesn\u2019t smell right. They said they went back and re-created from scratch what they thought the perfect next generation MacBook Pro would be. While a nifty statement, they essentially went back and made it based largely off the MacBook Air, added a Retina display and voil\u00e0.<\/p>\n

The similarities with MacBook Air aside from the video card and processor are just too apparent:<\/strong><\/p>\n