Mad Mac Maniac
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If they're seriously shrinking the Macbook Air to 12 inches, you're better off just buying a tablet, to be honest. With that screen resolution and size, it just isn't worth the purchase price any longer. My opinion anyway.
I might be inclined to believe you... but we don't really know anything about the mythical 12" MBA... specs but, most importantly IMO, the price. If the price goes up from the current MBA, then yeah iPad is a better bang for your buck. But if the price actually goes down and you are looking at either a 10" iPad at $500, a 12" iPad at ~$600 and a 12" MBA at ~$800, then that is a completely different proposition.
Honestly, my iPad had started to get squeezed out of most real use cases for me. Squeezed at the bottom by my iPhone 6+ and squeezed at the top by my MBA. That middle ground area that Steve Jobs identified at the iPad introduction has gotten much much smaller with advances in smartphones and size reductions in laptops....