After 14 years, Apple has finally retired the famous MacBook Air wedge shape

The MacBook Air's famous wedge-shape design is no more, replaced by the square-sided M3 model. Long live the sloped MacBook Air.The famous envelope image, redone for an Apple MacBook Air adBack in 1991, Apple showed up the entire laptop industry by making one key design decision that all rivals then forever copied. That was the moving of the keyboard from the front of the laptop to the back, and turning what was wasted space into a useful palm rest.As simple and even obvious as that now appears, it remains the single best ergonomic design change in laptops — but then there was a second one. Some 17 years later in 2008, Apple unveiled the wedge as we've known and adored since. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums