[tlholaday]

> What does pro even mean?

It means “the materials and manufacturing budget is increased to allow the designers to push the diminishing-returns boundary further.”

For competitive use-cases, where an increase in capability makes the difference between winning and losing, paying the increased cost of the more capable tool is a sound tactic.

[greenwoman]

That's meaningless marketing nonsense.

[dangus]

And it's been called the MacBook Pro for 15 years, I think it's time to get over it.

[ghaff]

It was admittedly likely a more meaningful distinction when a plain (white) MacBook was clearly much more oriented towards students and casual users than professionals using it day to day for business purposes.