Just a counterpoint: the 12" Macbook is really excellent. Build quality is impeccble. It feels amazing to travel with-- light enough to put into a small drawst

Just a counterpoint: the 12" Macbook is really excellent. Build quality is impeccble. It feels amazing to travel with-- light enough to put into a small drawstring bag. On planes I keep it in the seat pocket in front of me. It feels like a sheet of paper. It has two ports total: one USB C and one headphone jack. If you want you can have a single cable to a 4K monitor that carries the image, powers the laptop, and connects USB slots on the side of the monitor. Minimalism! Some people complain about the keyboard travel being too low, but I found it comfortable after one day. I develop WebTorrent Desktop and WebGL apps with it. I know that if a WebGL game does 60fps here, it will run smoothly just about everywhere. "To build fast software, use a slow computer." It has a tiny mobile CPU. The flash storage is fast and the wifi hardware is solid, so for many uses it feels faster than the brick-like Core i7 based Linux laptop I had before. -- I think if people stopped geeking out about stats and used a 12" Macbook for one week, a LOT of people would switch.