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0 pointsgiancarlostoro1y ago0 comments

> 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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deergomoo1y ago

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

giancarlostoroOP1y ago

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

Dylan168071y ago

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

dagmx1y ago

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

Kwpolska1y ago

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.

rsync1y ago

... 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.

nazgulnarsil1y ago

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

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robterrell1y ago

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

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