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Apple officially introduced the new 12-inch Retina MacBook to the public last March 9 and it showcased the company's fascination and penchant with thinness and cutting-edge design. The new MacBook features a revolutionary ergonomic keyboard, a screen with 2,560 x 1,600 resolution resulting to a pixel density of 227dpi and the state-of-the-art trackpad.

An outstanding feature of the new 12-inch Retina MacBook is the keyboard architecture which is dissimilar with its predecessors, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Apple CEO Tim Cook confirms on their Spring Forward event that the Retina MacBook is 40% thinner than and only 0.52 inches thick at its deepest point.

To achieve this revolutionary design and Apple needs to do a major overhaul with its keyboard. The traditional keyboard uses the scissor-switch design and this causes keycaps to vibrate and tremble at the bottom hence Apple comes up with a more efficient design called the butterfly mechanism. The keyboard in this mechanism bends in unison as part of a single plane. This design is said to greatly improve typing precision and more importantly, this reduced the device's thickness.

Another exceptional feature of new 12-inch Retina MacBook is the trackpad equipped with the Force Touch technology. This gives the trackpad greater sensitivity to different kinds and degrees of pressure. Moreover, the trackpad allows for haptic or taptic which makes users feel what they are interacting in the screen and not just a flat surface according to Macworld.

Aside from the precision and ease the butterfly mechanism design offers, the new 12-inch Retina MacBook will be the first Apple computer to use the San Francisco font. This font is Apple-designed and it employed as text on the Apple Watch. Presently, Apple font is the VAG Rounded which was originally designed for Volkswagen by GGK Dusseldorf in 1970 reports AppleInsider. The same font is now licensed by Adobe and used by Adecco and T-Mobile.

The new 12-inch Retina MacBook will be made available to the markets by April 10 at a starting price of $1,299.