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by cosmic_cheese 455 days ago
It’s task-dependent for me as well. For development I think the current 16” MBPs are really about perfect, but for the use case of studying, web browsing, etc something in the range of 12-14” and as light as reasonably possible without negatively impacting battery life is about right.

For those smaller machines, I think a squarish (5:4, 4:3, 3:2, or 16:10) aspect ratio with a body exactly as wide as a full-size laptop keyboard (as seen in 12” PowerBook G4, 12” MacBook, and ThinkPad X220) is particularly good, but nobody makes those anymore.