Its familiar wedge shape has been copied by almost everyone, and it has served as a benchmark for thinness, battery life, and industrial design in its category. The MacBook Air kicked off the ultrabook trend among laptops before Intel even coined that term. So while Apple has been busy crafting the Pro MacBook, the way it will be received by most people is the way that I’m addressing it today: as a Pro MacBook Air. Instead, the world’s coffee shops are filled with nomadic professionals seeking an Apple computer to replace the much more ubiquitous, but now dated, MacBook Air. Professional video editors and photographers have been waiting for a new Pro laptop - but this midrange MacBook Pro probably isn’t that. Logical though it may be for Apple, this MacBook Pro presents a dichotomy.

Apple is determined to force the future into existence, and this laptop is just the next logical step. All of this, along with the solid-state Force Touch trackpad, expresses Apple’s modernized laptop design, whose signature change is the frenzied push of USB-C as the unitary replacement for all the world’s ports. You also get the new option to style it out in a handsome space gray and an upgraded version of the MacBook’s super flat butterfly-mechanism keyboard. This $1,499 MacBook Pro strips connectivity down to just a headphone jack on its right side and two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 3 on the left. The familiar MagSafe charger is gone, retired along with Apple’s SD card reader, HDMI output, and old-school USB ports. Why does it feel more like a MacBook? Well, just look at it.

If you wanted a bigger and more powerful MacBook, this is it

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