[iseanstevens]

I still have my 2013 11.6” i7 and once I replace the battery and hinges (threw it across bed while open too many times) it’ll be good for another 10 years.

The original “MacBook” 12” retina could have been wonderful aside from the extremely poor performance, keyboard, and single USB, and battery life. Most of which Apple Silicon/lack of Jony Ive would fix.

I don’t know why, but for me about 1kg feels negligible for a laptop I carry constantly, where 1.5kg feels heavy.

[madcaptenor]

You get used to a certain weight and then a larger weight feels much larger. I remember having a 12-pound cat and thinking it was very comfortable to hold her (in my lap, not walking around). Then I had a 9-pound baby and held her a lot, and suddenly a 12-pound cat felt very heavy.

(The cat lost a bunch of weight and died, and that 9-pound baby is 50-something pounds now.)

[vrosas]

My last company _refused_ to buy me an air (what I use personally) and instead insisted on sending me their "standard" specced out 16" MBP and I _hate_ it. Flying with that thing to the offsite felt like I was smuggling a cinderblock through security.

[gjsman-1000]

These days I’m used to a 16” MacBook. Once or twice I’ve picked up a MacBook Air and thought it a featherweight.

[scarface_74]

> The original “MacBook” 12” retina could have been wonderful aside from the extremely poor performance, keyboard, and single USB, and battery life

“Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln”

> I still have my 2013 11.6” i7 and once I replace the battery and hinges (threw it across bed while open too many times) it’ll be good for another 10 years.

I doubt you would feel the same way if you had a M series MacBook Air.

[happymellon]

While I don't have a 2013 Mac anymore, I do have both an M3 MacBook Pro, and a Ryzen 5 Lenovo for development work with different clients and I really don't find the Mac that much faster in day to day usage.

Sure in benchmarks it gets bigger numbers, but in normal usage it's negligible. That's probably more due to MacOS getting less efficient than anything else though.

[rock_artist]

The MacBook 12" with an M1 or M4 would've been amazing by today. Still lovely form factor.

[mrweasel]

Isn't that basically the new Air, minus the ports?

[goosedragons]

There's similar weighing laptops out there. The LG Gram line for example, some of the ThinkPad X series.