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47 Apple Introduced Its Most Controversial MacBook 10 Years Ago Today

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Hartley Charlton @ MacRumors · today 04:00 EDT

Apple Introduced Its Most Controversial MacBook 10 Years Ago Today

Apple announced the infamous 12-inch Retina MacBook a decade ago today, an experimental new Mac that was as controversial as it was revolutionary.


Apple unveiled the 12-inch MacBook on March 9, 2015, at the "Spring Forward" event in San Francisco, California. The event was primarily focused on the Apple Watch, which was being fully detailed ahead of its launch the following month, so the debut of the brand-new MacBook line took many by surprise. Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the new MacBook as a "reinv

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