As always, read the whole thing, but this bit jumped out at me:
From a design perspective then the end product is clearly a Mac laptop, but it’s a Mac laptop that’s more tablet-like than any before it. From the small size, to the low weight, the choice of a Core M processor, the passive, fanless cooling system, and of course the choice of metallic colors, the MacBook pushes against the line that separates Apple’s laptops from their tablets.
The MacBook comes with some serious trade-offs, as Ryan Smith outlines in his in-depth review, but in many ways, this machine is the future.