John Gruber has written a piece that is quintessential Gruber. You might think it is his review of the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, but it is so much more. Grab a cup of coffee and give it a read. Here are just two of my favorite passages:

"Second, the weight reduction Apple was able to achieve with these machines is astonishing. The 14-inch models weigh a full half pound less. The 16-inch models weigh 0.7 pounds less. Almost three-quarters of a pound! I saw numerous attendees picking up the hands-on demo machines to compare them to the personal MacBook Pros they were lugging around the event in their backpacks. Eureka after eureka. These are massive reductions in weight without — claims Apple — any decrease in sustained performance or battery life."

"Eureka after eureka..." Man, I'll dream about that sentence.

These new MacBook Pros are worth showing off. What Mac users do and create on the platform is worth celebrating.

When I began closely following Apple, the Macintosh was Apple and Apple was the Macintosh. That hasn’t been true since the iPhone began its meteoric rise. Financially, Apple today is the iPhone, Services, and “everything else”.

But at the true center of Steve Jobs’s metaphorical intersection of Technology and the Liberal Arts, the Mac remains the heart and soul of everything Apple does, and responsible for so much of what users create with Apple’s products. We speak of people — both inside and outside the company — bleeding six colors. But the iPhone never had a six-color logo.