When I saw this photo from the 2023 WWDC it struck me that Apple now has a balanced Everyday and Professional Mac lineup, for the first time in a long time.
Regardless of the arrangement of the machines above,
Everyday Macs:
- 13” Macbook Air
- 15” Macbook Air
- Mac Mini
- iMac
Professional Macs:
- 14” Macbook Pro
- 16” Macbook Pro
- Mac Studio
- Mac Pro (with the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR)
I hope Apple keeps this balance going for a few years. This does seem like a good set of choices. In some ways it harks back to Steve Jobs’ simple 2 x 2 chart of ‘consumer’ and ‘pro’ Mac lines in the late 1990s:
