The aluminum unibody design is as solid as ever, even if it hasn’t actually changed in years. That last metric is overkill: you could get away with spending $2,400 for the same performance, but only 512GB of on-board storage.īuild quality is classic Apple, which is to say: fantastic.

The model we were loaned for testing would run you $3,000 as specced: 2.3GHz quad-core Core i7, 32GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD. Below that, it’s hard to justify Mac over PC. As I mention in the performance section below, for creators, it is well worth it to step up to the $1,800 tier if you can afford it. This is where you now get either a 10th-Gen quad-core i5 or i7 with the new Intel Iris Plus Graphics, up to 32GB of extremely fast LPDDR4X RAM, and up to a whopping 4TB of fast storage. Checking out Apple’s current Macs, plastic is very much a rarity in a world where metal and glass rule the roost.All of the true performance updates were saved for the $1,800 model and up. Looking at the Macintosh Portable, it’s clear a lot of plastic was used. That’s quite the weight saving, and the differences don’t stop there. The Macintosh Portable, released in an era when Steve Jobs was no longer at Apple, weighed a hefty 16 pounds, whereas a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar weighs just 3 pounds. Some of the differences are mind boggling, such as the difference in weight. The video, which will have you entertained for almost four minutes, shows us the two notebook computers in all their glory. Still, it’s fun to compare the first portable Mac with what the company currently peddles as it’s high-end device, and that’s just what we can do right now thanks to a YouTube video by Canoopsy. All snark aside though, there are some absolutely huge differences between the two, as you might expect with 25 years of innovation spanning their releases. Dubbed the Macintosh Portable, this first mobile Mac was hugely expensive and limited, which might seem familiar to those looking to buy a new Mac today.

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