The MacBook is a brand of Macintosh notebook computers designed and marketed by

Apple Inc. that use Apple's macOS operating system since 2006. It replaced the PowerBook
and iBook brands during the Mac transition to Intel processors, announced in 2005. The
current lineup consists of the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro . Two different lines
simply named "MacBook" existed from 2006 to 2012 and 2015 to 2019. On November 10,
2020, Apple announced models of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro incorporating the new
Apple M1 system on a chip. Apple will continue to sell versions of the MacBook Pro with
Intel processors. Overview The MacBook family was initially housed in designs similar to
the iBook and PowerBook lines which preceded them, now making use of a unibody
aluminum construction first introduced with the MacBook Air. This new construction also
has a black plastic keyboard that was first used on the MacBook Air, which itself was
inspired by the sunken keyboard of the original polycarbonate MacBooks. The now
standardized keyboard brings congruity to the MacBook line, with black keys on a metallic
alumin