MacBook 12 appreciation thread

[Nychot]

You're mostly "preaching to choir" in this forum! Wholeheartedly agree. You would be even happier with a 2017 maxed out pink 12" MacBook I had until recently.

I traded up to an M1 MBA 16/512 which is in a different league, but silent and fanless like the 12" MacBook.

Unless the small size is really, really important the M1 MBA is a no brainer upgrade.

But it's just not as cool as the 12 " and my base 2017 is almost as fast as the m1

 

[Apple_Robert]

I just bought a mint 2017 base and amazingly it's almost as fast as my m1 MacBook air. I also have a base 2015 macbook, these machines are incredible and are like jewels,

The MacBook is nowhere near the M1 Air in speed. I like the 12” MacBook but, there is no need to exaggerate.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

But it's just not as cool as the 12 " and my base 2017 is almost as fast as the m1

This made me laugh.

 

[Jauso]

I just bought this Macbook 12 2017 m3 CPU for $180 CAD (~$131 USD).

It came with the 29 watt charger but no usb c cable, so I stole a 2 meter usb c cable from the Apple Store and now everything works fine.

What do you think of the laptop?

 

[MultiFinder17]

I mean, good on you for the MacBook but I can’t say the same about the theft.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I just bought this Macbook 12 2017 m3 CPU for $180 CAD (~$131 USD).

It came with the 29 watt charger but no usb c cable, so I stole a 2 meter usb c cable from the Apple Store and now everything works fine.

What do you think of the laptop?

Coming on MacRumors and bragging that you shoplifted from Apple is terrible.

 

[Jauso]

oh yeah baby, i checked out the price of the cable, it is $35, what a rip off, this is why apple is a trillion dolla company and i am glad i got mine for free:

 

[Apple fanboy]

Coming on MacRumors and bragging that you shoplifted from Apple is terrible.

Agreed. We all pay a premium because of people like them.

 

[Jauso]

The laptop is kinda slow, which makes sense as it is an eight year old laptop, are there anyways to make it faster? other than doing hte thermal mod so it doens't throttle?

 

[next_cube]

Maybe steal a MBA M4?😁

 

[Lioness~]

Coming on MacRumors and bragging that you shoplifted from Apple is terrible.

I read in the news once that a guy had went into a church and stolen a pretty good collect, and after that he had went to confess his sin's anonomously. 😈
Sounds similar to the 'Apple-church'.....

Some just want to show what they can get away with, until they can't anymore 😕

 

[Macdctr]

I got my MacBook i7/16GB a few months ago and have upgraded it to Sequioa 15.6 Beta 3 and have been using it and so far it seems to run the current OS pretty well with one noticeable glitch. It drops internet connectivity periodically and requires cycling WiFi on/off before reconnecting. Wondering if anyone else is having this issue?

I also have my 4th Gen iPad Pro 11 inch which is powered by a 3.49 GHz Apple M2 processor with 8 cores (4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores), a 10-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and 100 GB/s of memory bandwidth. This tablet has been updated with iOS26. It is a nice tablet however I still find using my MacBook in some cases is still the preferred way to accomplish some tasks.

What I like best about my 12 inch MacBook is the foot print, how thin and light this laptop really is. For what it is, this is an amazing laptop and so far I haven’t had any issues typing on my butterfly keyboard.

 

[jackson6]

I got my MacBook i7/16GB a few months ago and have upgraded it to Sequioa 15.6 Beta 3 and have been using it and so far it seems to run the current OS pretty well with one noticeable glitch. It drops internet connectivity periodically and requires cycling WiFi on/off before reconnecting. Wondering if anyone else is having this issue?

I also have my 4th Gen iPad Pro 11 inch which is powered by a 3.49 GHz Apple M2 processor with 8 cores (4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores), a 10-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and 100 GB/s of memory bandwidth. This tablet has been updated with iOS26. It is a nice tablet however I still find using my MacBook in some cases is still the preferred way to accomplish some tasks.

What I like best about my 12 inch MacBook is the foot print, how thin and light this laptop really is. For what it is, this is an amazing laptop and so far I haven’t had any issues typing on my butterfly keyboard.

You must have laser eyes if you read with the font that small. I usually set mine to 110% but then the screen doesn't display some webpages properly at that zoom level.

 

[Macdctr]

You must have laser eyes if you read with the font that small. I usually set mine to 110% but then the screen doesn't display some webpages properly at that zoom level.

I have no problem reading at this resolution.

 

[Macdctr]

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