MacBooks are the favorite of millions of people who want to buy a laptop today. There is a serious story of work and effort behind this. MacBooks have improved a lot in terms of design, ease of use and technology since their first form. While we used to look at the development of MacBooks in ten-year periods, the reason we now review models year by year is because the development is accelerating. Today, we will talk about how MacBooks looked in the past, their design details and their ancestors.
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Apple's PowerBook: The Grandfather of the MacBook
Even before the MacBook was released, Apple had been working intensively on laptops. The PowerBook was introduced as a result of these. This device, which had 2 GB of RAM, also had a CD and DVD drive. These features were enough to make it the favorite of the period. Finally, the PowerPC G3 chip made the PowerBook unique for its time.
If we think that PowerBook was a very short period, we would be wrong. Because these devices remained on the market for more than ten years and continued to prepare Apple for the first MacBook. The last model of this product was the G4 model and was very popular with the market. The first MacBook Pro, which was released in 2006, would rewrite the rules of the whole game.
History Makes Its Debut: The First MacBook Pro in 2006
It must be acknowledged that the first MacBook was dazzlingly successful. However, it was quite primitive by today’s standards. First of all, the screen frame ratio was very high. It also had a white color, far from the current Mac gray that we love so much. It weighed a little over 2.28 kg. Despite all this, the first MacBook Pro, released in 2006, was a real star due to its features such as its many cable inputs, camera design, 17-inch wide screen, and being 4 times faster than the latest PowerBook model.
Here are the highlights of the first MacBook Pro:
- It had an 80 GB hard drive.
- It was possible to take images via computer thanks to the iSight camera.
- It had a 67 GHz Intel Core Duo processor.
- It had a trackpad that moved by swiping.
- It was quite advanced with 512 MB RAM.
An Innovation from Apple: The First MacBook Air in 2008
MacBook Air, which was developed with the idea of ''Thinner is possible'', was launched by Apple in 2008. It would not be wrong to say that its most important point is thinness. In fact, the first choice of millions of people looking for exactly this feature was MacBook Air. MacBook Air, which entered the bestseller list at Apple,
- At its thinnest point it was 0.16 inches. That's 0.4 cm.
- At its thickest point it was only 0.76 inches. That's 1.93 cm.
Another improvement that this product offered as a new model was the Trackpad technical features. Now with the Trackpad, a MacBook user could have much more control than before.
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Hello to the Retina Display: MacBook Pro and Retina Display
MacBook users were still looking for something with screen image quality: the retina displays they were used to using on iPhones and really loved. The MacBook Pro, which went on sale in 2023 and was Apple's apple of the eye at the time, can be considered the first laptop to try this. The 2012 MacBook Pro, which had a 15-inch screen size, made a revolution with its retina display.
Apple, which has carried its success in thickness to the Pro series, has managed to make a thickness of only 1.8 cm possible for this product. Moreover, this thin structure was also lightweight. It weighs less than 2 kilos.
Here are the highlights of the 2012 MacBook Pro:
- Battery life that can extend up to 7 hours
- 768 GB SSD storage capacity
- Embedded HD camera
- Up to 16GB RAM
- Intel Core i7 quad-core processor
- Processor performance between 2.7 GHz and 3.7 GHz
That's it for now! MacBook Pros have been sold with retina displays since 2012. Of course, they are now much thinner and have much higher performance thanks to the M1 and M2 processors.
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