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by wpm 112 days 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!
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gyomu 112 days ago
A 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.

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jkestner 112 days ago
Like the little buff 12” PowerBook https://www.macworld.com/article/225194/ode-to-the-12-inch-p...
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wpm 112 days ago
Somewhere 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.
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jkestner 112 days ago
Hmm now I want to see this done in a PowerBook 100 chassis with a Sharp Memory LCD screen.
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ulfw 112 days ago
Exactly. This with an M5, OLED, today's keyboard/trackpad combo, 16GB/24GB RAM, 2-4TB of SSD and it would be an instant buy
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NetMageSCW 112 days ago
They make something like that, but it costs a bit more.
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ulfw 112 days ago
They aren't making this as described
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retired 112 days ago
I still remember when the Air lineup was all about being small and light.
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NetMageSCW 112 days ago
The MacBook Neo and the MacBook Air (at about the same weight) are 10% lighter than the original Air.
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retired 111 days ago
The 2008 MacBook Air was 1.5x lighter than the other 13" MacBooks in the line-up. Nowadays they are all about the same weight.
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cduzz 112 days ago
I'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.
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NetMageSCW 112 days ago
How much did that 12” Retina MacBook cost? Small and light isn’t cheap.
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