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doesn't matter. along with getting rid of the latch it's one the best things apple has done to laptops.

• AlexandrB 14y ago
  Wow, I forgot about the latch. Been using a MacBook for 3 years and I guess I take it for granted. Was Apple the first to ditch that?
  • arrrg 14y ago
    I think that came with the switch to unibody, so for some Macs in 2008.
    • jdboyd 14y ago
      My wife's non-unibody MacBook (not pro) from '06 also has no latch.
      • arrrg 14y ago
        I want to say MacBooks don’t count (always the sucky and worthless Macs), but I guess they do. So it started there. But the MacBook Pro definitely had latches until 2008, so for the Pro line what I said is completely true.
        • nicky0 14y ago
          Why sucky and worthless?
    • henderson101 14y ago
      The plastic MacBooks never had latches. Not sure about the iBooks, but possibly they did too - at least, post clamshell.
      • rsl7 14y ago
        just for the record (very late, wow) the first laptops to ditch the latch iirc were the original iBooks, the "toilet seat" macs.