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I just want an 11" Macbook air again. Even with the M2 it would fly. iPads with this horsepower just don't make sense. It's like a V8 Miata with 4 donuts for ti
by post_break 2y ago
I just want an 11" Macbook air again. Even with the M2 it would fly. iPads with this horsepower just don't make sense. It's like a V8 Miata with 4 donuts for tires.
- geodel 2y agoThat sounds sweet ride.
- jibe 2y agoOr a 12” MacBook - Apple is missing both 11” and 12” options. Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad.
- alabastervlog 2y ago> Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad. Pretty sure it would kill battery life, and play very poorly with their suspend-wake functionality.
- robotresearcher 2y agoM-series Macs suspend and wake very, very quickly.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoOverall I think the form factor of the 12” MacBook was superior to that of the 11” Air. Similar footprint, but better aspect ratio and much better pixel density. An M-series 12” would be amazing. Or heck, with how powerful A-series SoCs are these days, even one of those would likely be sufficient and yet far more efficient and powerful than those awful Intel CPUs the original 12” was saddled with.
- xnx 2y agoWhile they're at it, bring back the 17" Macbook
- junga 2y agoI „found“ a MacBook 12“ Retina from 2015 at home a few weeks ago. Size wise that's the sweet spot for me. Would totally buy such a device running on Apple silicon. In the end I sold it for 50 Euro after tinkering with Pop!_OS and ultimately realizing that the processor is way too slow for Java development nowadays.
- bflesch 2y agoThey make more money from selling you all the add-on dongles
- steveBK123 2y agoGive me a MB with LTE and I can finally stop buying®retting iPads. Maybe Apple moving into the modem space will get us there but it does feel like some sort of purposeful market segmentation
- couchdb_ouchdb 2y agoJust tether to your phone
- steveBK123 2y agoyes ive done it just more finicky annoyance why segment iPad vs Mac this way
- torginus 2y agoTIL if you plug your iphone into your mac, it will automatically switch to mobile data, if you have hotspot on, even if you have wifi. Wasn't exactly delighted to find out.
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoI’ve never seen that behavior without configuration. Can you reproduce that reliably?
- sslbits 2y agoWhenever someone expresses a desire for Apple to produce a macbook with a 5G or LTE modem, someone always responds with "tether to your phone" or "use a hotspot" and I don't find these comments particularly useful. Hotspot/tethered data is a separate pool from general mobile data. Once you've consumed the guaranteed "high" speeds (60GB on AT&T's current Unlimited Premium Plan), all hotspot speeds are then hard capped at 128Kbps. AFAIK you can't even purchase additional data at these speeds if you wanted to. Mobile data on an iPhone or iPad won't have that hard cap. Although in the past, once the guaranteed 5G speeds were consumed, your mobile data speed was simply deprioritized but could still achieve 5G speeds based on current network conditions/congestion. There are scenarios where a notebook would need this much data and speed and there are Windows notebooks available for this purpose. The "just tether your phone" cohort either hasn't considered this or simply dismisses it because they may have not experienced this limitation personally. I suppose that Apple doesn't see the demand for a macbook with a mobile modem or otherwise doesn't see the need to make this option available.
- torginus 2y agoI spend all my time either with my laptop docked in the office, or at home, but I sometimes I need to bring my device with me. Such a laptop would be perfect for me.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoI would love an 11" MacBook. The new chips are perfect for that form factor given they're so powerful & light on battery.