Like Your Ultra Thin Google Pixelbook? You Can in Part Thank Steve Jobs
If you like your ultra thin Google Pixelbook or any ultra thin laptop for that matter, you have in part to thank Steve Jobs and Apple. 10 years ago today, Apple introduced the Macbook Air. It was a radical departure from what laptop design, including Apple themselves, had been to that point. Sporting a single USB-A port, headphone jack and power connector, the Macbook Air ditched all the conventional things at the time like a DVD drive and spinning hard disks internally. It also introduced a multi-touch touchpad.
Instead, Apple moved to SSD drives internally and ditched the DVD drive altogether, seeing a future where they simply wouldn’t be needed. They were right as we know now ten years on but at the time, it was radical thinking.