[gumby]

I was really happy with the now discontinued 12" macbook. Yes it was dog slow, but I did a lot of development on it* and it happily traveled with me around the world and back and forth. It was so light I would often have to check my bag to see if I'd forgotten it. That happens very occasionally with my MBA as well, and is a reason I didn't upgrade to the 15-incher.

I think the ipad pro with the "magic keyboard" weighs more than a macbook air...?

* Note: I do all my development in Emacs, not a heavyweight development system and generally do the builds on a remote linux machine so the slowness of the machine wasn't the big deal for me that it might have been for others. But sometimes, if the network was slow, I compiled locally and it was still fast compared to the much older machines we used to use!

[jhickok]

I would love to see Apple revisit this form factor with the much more capable Apple Silicon processors. I had the 12in 2017 Macbook, and it was just about perfect in every way except performance. A remarkable little machine.

[tpmoney]

The current MBAs are actually fairly close to this category of laptop:

12 inch Powerbooks: 4.6 lbs., 1.18" H x 10.9" W x 8.6" D

12 inch Macbook: 2.03 lbs., 0.14-0.52" H x 11.04" W x 7.74" D

Current MBA M2: 2.7 lbs., 0.44" H x 11.97" W x 8.46" D

So widest of them all, in the middle for weight and depth.

[fomine3]

I wish Apple make Air lighter. It's no longer a lightweight laptop in the market, despite it's fanless.