I suspect this is because Apple gives so little attention to Mac now and updates products two or three times a decade. So when one product is updated, the rest of the lineup seems incongruous.
Just the overall design — there are substantial internal updates (silicon, battery, etc.) every 12-18 months for most lines. Air had been waiting a while, though.
> heavier (and has more ports) ... I suspect this is because Apple gives so little attention to Mac now
A simpler explanation: There's a market for a laptop somewhere between MB and MBP.
Any chance Apple will back out on the touch bar for MBP's — "We've learned from that experience."? I have one and am not thrilled with the touch bar, but I really prefer fingerprint unlocking over typing a password.
It allows you to fully customise the buttons making it infinitely more useful.
I just walk up to my desk, tap the space bar and the watch and mac do their thing and I'm logged in. It's awesome.
> MacID 2.0 is now available has been renamed to Unlox.
I suppose you could argue that if you then forced people to use longer, more complex passwords, they would have fewer issues.
We could call the latter "Macbook (void)" - void is lighter than air ...
I can say that having traveled for months with a 12" MacBook it was a great little machine for what I wanted (collecting photos, checking mail and the web, and writing lots of code in Emacs). I plan to get another and make my 15" MBP behemoth a desktop.