Measuring almost half an inch thinner than its predecessor and weighing 0.11 pounds lighter, it brought a new level of portability to Apple's traditionally weightier and chunkier laptop line.
512GB of storage starts at £1,399 ($1,799, around AUS$1,986) and comes with the latest Intel 2.8GHz Core i5-4308U CPU (turbo boost to 3.3GHz) with 3MB shared L3 cache and 8GB RAM.
It sits alongside two other models part of the refreshed 2014 line-up, both of which are configurable with up to 3GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 CPUs and 16GB of RAM, with 4MB shared L3 cache.
Starting at £1,199 ($1,499, around AUS$1,657), the mid-range MacBook Pro comes with 256GB of flash storage, a 2.6GHz Core-i5 CPU (up from 2.4GHz) and 8GB RAM (up from 4GB).
The entry-level MacBook Pro gets the same CPU and RAM boost as the mid-range model, but comes with 128GB of flash storage for £999 ($1,299, around US$1,436), making it the best bang-for-buck option of the three if you don't need lots of internal storage.
With the successor to OS X Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, coming this Fall, the arrival of a fanless, Retina-equipped MacBook Air (or even slimmer MacBook Pro) in time for the holiday season is not only a tantalizing prospect, it would also make perfect sense.
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