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Comment by rchaud | Hacker News Reader

Apple laptop lineup is getting as crowded as Dell and Lenovo these days.

I'm surprised they are building such a large MBA, it might be curtains for the 16-inch MBP in that case.

I don't think it's crowded. Lay aside the legacy products - the old form factor M1 Air and 13inch Pro. You now have a very simple product line: Minimalist vs Maximalist and Small vs Big screen. The Airs will be thinner, have the basic M chips and 2 ports. The Pros will be thicker, have the juicy M chips, and have all the fancy ports. Nice market segmentation, simple differentiation. The only thing to do is wait 14 more years for them to kill off the legacy products.

It's about as crowded as it was in the aluminum PowerBook G4 days when you had the 12" iBook, 14" iBook, 12" PB G4, 15" PB G4 and 17" PB G4. Now they have the 13" MBA, the 13" MBP, 14" MBP, and 16" MBP. The only model that really needs to go is the 13" MBP as it brings very little to the table over the MBA. A 15" MBA would make a lot more sense than the 13" MBP IMO.

Many people are speculating that the 15” MacBook would replace the 13” MBP in the product line.

Going with MBP still gets you 64GB max ram, more cpu and gpu cores, and more than 1 external monitor. I think the 16” MBP will stick around for a while.

Presumably there will be a large price difference between the two.

Is that not a good thing?

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