{"id":312897,"date":"2019-07-10T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T06:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=312897"},"modified":"2019-07-10T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T06:41:11","slug":"apple-kills-off-its-12-inch-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/312897-apple-kills-off-its-12-inch-macbook.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple kills off its 12-inch MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2019\/07\/macbook-air-and-macbook-pro-updated-for-back-to-school-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated<\/a><\/strong> its MacBook Air notebooks as part of its Back to School promotion aimed at university students.<\/p>\n<p>The new MacBook Air devices feature True Tone Retina displays and a lower price tag of $1,099.<\/p>\n<p>Apple also updated its entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro with Intel 8th-generation processors, Touch Bar, Touch ID, a True Tone Retina display, and the Apple T2 Security Chip.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also stopped selling the previous-generation MacBook Air with non-Retina display, as well as its 12-inch MacBook which had just a single port.<\/p>\n<p>The refreshed laptops still use Apple&#8217;s butterfly keyboard design, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/312459-apple-could-abandon-its-butterfly-keyboard-design.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>attracted heavy criticism<\/strong><\/a> for its reliability issues.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/312807-apple-to-launch-affordable-iphone-in-2020-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple to launch affordable iPhone in 2020 \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has updated its MacBook Air notebooks as part of its Back to School promotion aimed at university students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":125934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[59925,59469,605,2450],"class_list":["post-312897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-12-inch","tag-air","tag-apple","tag-macbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}