Here's why Apple MacBook is completely irrelevant to me.

The Apple MacBook is Apple's 3rd addition into their notebook portfolio. It is positioned as their premium ultra-portable offering besides the cheaper MacBook Air and the powerful MacBook Pro. In another article, I told you the differences between the MacBook and the MacBook Air. But after doing an adequate amount of research on the new MacBook, I realised one thing. Even though the MacBook is an amazing laptop, it is something that I'd simply stay away from. 

Firstly, the MacBook is too underpowered for my tastes. I use a laptop as a desktop substitute, not as a tablet with a keyboard. I game, edit videos and do much more on my laptop besides surfing the web, listening to music and watching videos. So that's reason 1.

Next, for what it's offering, the MacBook doesn't justify its high price. In a hypothetical world where tablets didn't exist, the MacBook would make perfect sense for medium sized screen media consumption with stellar battery endurance. But sadly, Apple themselves revolutionised the tablet realm in 2010 with the iPad which would 5 years later make the MacBook completely irrelevant (atleast in my eyes).


Thirdly, is the absence of convertibility. In my mind this is one aspect Apple forgot which can make the MacBook a failure. In a world where Intel Atom & Intel Core M powered Windows tablets dock into a first party dock which includes a keyboard and trackpad, the MacBook makes a complete fool out of itself. If Apple implemented Force Touch on the screen of the MacBook which had the same keyboard and trackpad, detachable this time, I would exchange my iPad for it, considering the iPad is basically a glorified iPod touch.

That's what I am into - Apple!

Lastly, the absence of expandability. In short, the Macbook fails when we talk about expandability. What were you thinking Sir Jonathan Paul Ive while designing the MacBook? Just one port? One single USB-C port? No Magsafe 2 port to go along with it? Don't try to cover it up by telling us that the future is wireless. We still have A LOT of wired stuff. If you could atleast drop another USB-C port, that would be amazing. 

So to round it all up. Dear Apple, while designing the 2nd generation of this product, please put atleast an Intel Core i3 and a little fan. If possible, try to squeeze 2 more USB-C ports. Consider the possibility of making it a convertible. And lastly, considering this is more expensive when compared to Apple's more powerful and comparatively slim MacBook Air, please make the MacBook cheaper.   

But it's not like the MacBook was designed with nobody in mind. If all you do is check your emails, surf the internet, write a few articles for your blog and work on office suite apps, the Macbook is a perfect fit for you, giving you an amazingly thin laptop but you get just one USB port (Type-C, so it’s not backwards compatible without a clunky adaptor by Apple).  Also, the new Macbook is fanless, so don’t push that poor little Core M CPU to its limit