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That or the 12" Retina MacBook, which weighed 0.67 lbs less than the neo and Air do. And it does make a difference! It's disappointing they finally got the sil
by wpm 8mo ago
That or the 12" Retina MacBook, which weighed 0.67 lbs less than the neo and Air do. And it does make a difference!
It's disappointing they finally got the silicon for the "thin and light at all costs" form factor but gave up on the form factor. I just want my clipboard laptop back!
- gyomu 8mo agoA revival of the 12” MacBook would be amazing, but give it to me as a premium device - not an educational market positioning. I want a real M-series chip with RAM upgrades, an OLED display, etc.
- ulfw 8mo agoExactly. This with an M5, OLED, today's keyboard/trackpad combo, 16GB/24GB RAM, 2-4TB of SSD and it would be an instant buy
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoThey make something like that, but it costs a bit more.
- ulfw 8mo agoThey aren't making this as described
- retired 8mo agoI still remember when the Air lineup was all about being small and light.
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoThe MacBook Neo and the MacBook Air (at about the same weight) are 10% lighter than the original Air.
- retired 8mo agoThe 2008 MacBook Air was 1.5x lighter than the other 13" MacBooks in the line-up. Nowadays they are all about the same weight.
- jkestner 8mo agoLike the little buff 12” PowerBook https://www.macworld.com/article/225194/ode-to-the-12-inch-powerbook-g4-apples-first-desktop-quality-laptop.html https://www.macworld.com/article/225194/ode-to-the-12-inch-p...
- wpm 8mo agoSomewhere on my list of projects is "Gut a 12" Powerbook and put the guts of a modern M series Macbook in it". The chassis is so spacious and the Macbook Air logic boards are so small, physics is not going to be a problem. Just hooking up screens, the keyboard and trackpad (using the original, natch), and ports. There's already a high-res display swap you can do in that chassis to get to 1400x1050.
- jkestner 8mo agoHmm now I want to see this done in a PowerBook 100 chassis with a Sharp Memory LCD screen.
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoHow much did that 12” Retina MacBook cost? Small and light isn’t cheap.
- cduzz 8mo agoI'm very sad this neo macbook thing isn't a replacement for my macbook retina in any way. I'm not really sure what I'll do to replace it; I'd been hoping this "phone chip based macbook" would be of the old retina form factor. But instead it's just a nerfed air. My kids have the macbook airs and my little 2017 retina is substantially dramatically smaller and more portable. At least until the battery dies.