{"id":38561,"date":"2023-02-22T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T21:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38561"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T21:12:14","slug":"why-not-a-smaller-macbook-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/22\/why-not-a-smaller-macbook-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not a Smaller MacBook, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time, Apple offered its lightest notebook in two sizes: the 13-inch it sells today and a smaller 11-inch model. Alas, only the good die young, and the 11-inch Air was discontinued in 2019—the same year that Apple discontinued its other<\/em> small laptop (and putative Air replacement), the 12-inch MacBook.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, the smallest Mac laptop you can get is that 13-inch Air and while it’s shrunk down to be a bit closer to the 11-inch in many dimensions, it’s still larger and heavier than both of those discontinued models—and that’s a shame, because a small, light laptop has a lot going for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To me this is the biggest surprise of the Apple Silicon transition. A lot of people expected something like this right out of the gate. Aside from the butterfly keyboard, the knock against the 12-inch MacBook was that was too slow. The M1 processor, or even one of the recent A-series ones, would seem to be the solution. Apple kept saying that making their own processors would let them make Macs that were not possible with Intel. Yet, after years of 11- and 12-inch MacBooks with Intel processors, we’ve seen two generations of Apple Silicon MacBook Airs that start at 13 inches.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n