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Still waiting for apple to re-embrace the 11 or 12inch laptop market again. The 12in Macbook was so let down by its Intel SoC, it could really shine with what they have now. Personally I think they should just shove the A18 / A17 Pro into the smallest laptop possible. My iPad Mini (2024 A17pro) is so close to being a perfect little laptop if iPad OS wasn't so limited.

Shout out to the Powerbook 12 inch for convincing me we don't need to go bigger ever again.

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It'll never come from Apple at this point, if you want an 11'' device they'll sell you an iPad. But I think we're both going to be sad about the state of iPadOS for a long time to come.

imo the perfect small laptop has to have full-size keys and thus be at least ~11x5".

That rules out all iPads below the 12.9" due to their tall aspect (even in landscape).

The 11" MBA was ~12x8" and so darn near the minimum you could make it. ~11x7" should be doable but 2" is a pretty small trackpad.

imo the latest MBAs are more or less perfect: a great tradeoff of overall size vs. trackpad size. Although I actually preferred the tapered design of the M1.

>Although I actually preferred the tapered design of the M1.

Same, also greatly preferred its heatsink vs the redesign which doesn't seem to handle the M2/M3 nearly as well.

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