[Spittie]

I totally missed some events, or Apple just "dropped" those in the store without any writeup/presentation?

Even if this is a minor upgrade (price cut and slightly faster processors), it still feels very weird to me.

[neiled]

They're just minor bumps to specs and a reduction in price, they normally don't do big announcements for something like this. Now if/when the retina MacBook Airs come out you can be sure there'll be an announcement for that...

[rsynnott]

They do that from time to time; announcements are mostly only for substantial changes.