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> The lineup is a little strange.

They have Macs they call Macbook Airs, but their Macbooks look like "Air" Macbooks, they really should have swapped the names on those models long ago.

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The no-adjective MacBook hasn’t been sold for years. It’s just Air and Pro again now.

Makes sense, it never made sense to downgrade, I guess the Air should drop "Air" moving forward then...

It's better this way. It's clear whether someone means any macbook, or just the non-pro, or just the pro.

They haven’t sold the MacBook you’re talking about since 2019.

The 12" MacBook Abomination was a short-lived, badly-designed, performance-limited computer. Apple doesn’t sell them anymore, and modern Airs are very respectable computers.

... except for the fact that they refuse to re-issue the second greatest laptop form facter of all time: the 11" MBA.

First place, obviously, goes to the Toshiba Libretto.

Because the 13" is close to the same physical size as the old 11

It really isn't. While it's only .12" wider, it's almost an inch deeper and over 5oz heavier.

Come on. First place has gotta be the PowerBook 100.

Nope. ThinkPad with the butterfly keyboard.

PowerBook Duo or 2400C - surely! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_2400c

Wow - how was I impressed with a laptop "only" weighing 2kg?!

I thought with the emphasis on repair within the geek community today we'd go for the Macintosh Portable, which is so modular and repairable that Jean-Louis Gassée was able to build it directly on stage when introducing it.

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