https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/30/apple_saves_macbook_air/

Apple has given the moldering MacBook Air a new lease of life at the company's hardware event in Brooklyn today.

For years Apple seemed to be nudging its most practical computer into an early grave. Instead of wanting folk to buy the increasingly neglected workhorse, they were instead ushered towards its more expensive successor – flimsy keyboards and all.