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12" Macbook - theres no coming back

The only thing powerful about it was how powerfully slow it was.

Don't get me wrong, it was nice and small, but the lack of ports and oh gods it was slow. Now you can get a MacBook Air that's really only just a little bit bigger and massively more powerful.
 
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Of course it's never coming back.

The 12" would have been THE PERFECT model to be released with the M1 half a year ago. When they went with the bigger heavier now equally fanless "Air" instead, it was clear the 12" is dead for good.
 
Who was buying the 12" model in the first place?

Like the iPhone 12 mini, it served too few customers.
 
The Samurai said:
After todays announcement of the M1 iPad Pros, I think its safe to say the chances of a 12" ever making a comeback are next to nothing.

Sad, as it was a lovely little powerhouse.
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You are probably right, but I do think that the iPad Pro will eventually gain the ability to run Mac apps, though in a compatibility mode similar to how M1 Macs can run iPadOS/iOS apps. With such capabilities, the 11" iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard, while heavier than the 12" MacBook, would be more flexible.
 
bierdybard said:
The only thing powerful about it was how powerfully slow it was.

Don't get me wrong, it was nice and small, but the lack of ports and oh gods it was slow. Now you can get a MacBook Air that's really only just a little bit bigger and massively more powerful.
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The thing was not fast, that is true. But at least by the 2017-models, they weren't really slow. Mine runs any website, lots of tabs open, and MS office as fast as I can hope. I don't use it for any complex things of course, but to me it doesn't lack speed.

The issue is once you've gone 12" rMB, it's hard to go back to a heavier laptop. It doesn't seem like much, but the MBA is 40% heavier than the rMB (2.8 lbs vs 2.0 lbs). They're both light in their own right, but man that rMB feels like a feather in comparison.
 
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The Samurai said:
After todays announcement of the M1 iPad Pros, I think its safe to say the chances of a 12" ever making a comeback are next to nothing.

Sad, as it was a lovely little powerhouse.
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Watch this... it appears that the next MBA may be as small or smaller than the MB but with 1 USB-C/USB4/TB4 port on each side.

I see it being out by December 2021

 
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I don't see a 12" MacBook happening with the new line. I hope to be proven wrong.
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Correct me if I am wrong you want a 12" Mac notebook because of its dimenstional height, width, depth and weight.

It is possible in happening with the next MBA with smaller top, left and right bezels.
 
Hexley said:
Correct me if I am wrong you want a 12" Mac notebook because of its dimenstional height, width, depth and weight.

It is possible in happening with the next MBA with smaller top, left and right bezels.
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Like you, I have the 2017 MacBook. I want that same size with much less screen bezel and M1 power. I would buy it day one.
 
I didn't think it was that powerful, I had the 11.6" model and I lasted only a few months. Too small for my needs
 
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