In times of climate change debate I think Apple is doing the wrong thing here, encouraging buy and throw away mentality increasing waste.
Of course for web browsing in general it's pretty unusable.
Not replacing something that still works is way better than replacing it even if you recycle the old unit.
I think a product designed to be repairable indefinitely is less wasteful than one that has half as much mass but needs to be completely recycled whenever any critical part fails.
I would dearly love to have a standard laptop form factor, even if means cases would be 5cm thick when closed and 2kg without its innards. If there were a laptop case standard, it would be a whole lot easier to manage repair parts and 3rd party upgrades.