MacBook 12 appreciation thread

[mk313]

Managed to get my hands on a new and still sealed/shrink wrapped MB 2017.

Anyone running Sequoia on a 2017 model?

nice find!

 

[next_cube]

I think at the time, Apple's intention was to discontinue the MacBook Air given that it was still on the pre-Retina design. Much of the MB's design lives on in the current Air. The way I see it, the Air is essentially the MB but with a better facetime camera, a magsafe port, an extra usb-c port, and both usb-c ports can also do thunderbolt, and a larger screen.

The MBA is a great device, but I am still hoping Apple will release a new <1 kg laptop in the future. I use my MB while travelling and weight is a big factor for me. Unfortunately an iPad can't replace a MB yet (for me).

 

[next_cube]

nice find!

Thx! Sold my first MB only to learn that a iPad can't replace it for my needs. Oh well.

 

[next_cube]

Sequoia runs just fine on the MB 2017.

 

[aleni]

I think at the time, Apple's intention was to discontinue the MacBook Air given that it was still on the pre-Retina design. Much of the MB's design lives on in the current Air. The way I see it, the Air is essentially the MB but with a better facetime camera, a magsafe port, an extra usb-c port, and both usb-c ports can also do thunderbolt, and a larger screen.

The 12" Macbook was joy to use in term of ultra portability. The smallest 13" Air doesn't even come close.

 

[Adora]

I'm missing my rose gold 12" too. It was a 2015 or 2016 🤔 m7 refurbished. At least it was purchased directly from Apple by the End of 2016. My brother still uses it.

He always gets my stuff when he destroyed his and I have to buy something new. 🙃

That time it was a white plastic MacBook from 2010 with new SSD and 16GB RAM what he also got from me. He let it fall down outside on something very hard when it was icy.

 

[F-B-Z]

Macbook is actually what an iPad Pro should be. This is the reason why it wasn't updated with M chip in my opinion.

This!

They refrain from this to avoid cannibalizing their iPad Pro sales with its inferior ipadOS (compared to macOS). It is such a pity. An 11 or 12'' MacBook with an M processor and a real operating system would be a day 1 purchase for me.

 

[537635]

I was on the verge of getting an iPad Pro several times.

Everytime I go through things I would do on the device in my head and come up with several things, which are borderline impossible or extremely cumbersome on iPadOS.

After all these years it has become rather stupid, that with their grip on both the powerful hardware and software Apple won't touch the ultraportables anymore and even worse - offers a gimped tablet instead.

 

[ccbc]

One nice thing about the MB that was not mentioned (I think) is that it can use a 20-watt charger. These are now the most common charger since phones use them.

At least a 20w charger works on my 2016 1.1GHz m3. coconutBattery reports between 12 and 15 watts when both charging and using a 100w charger, so totally doable to go lower.

 

[imdog]

The greatest laptop of all time.
The current Pros look like the bulky brick windows laptops Mac users would scoff at in 2008, and the current Airs are less sleek than a 2015 MacBook Pro. Apples design and engineering (in terms of aesthetics) have absolutely fallen off a cliff.

 

[glhiii]

The greatest laptop of all time.

I agree. There is something esthetically pleasing about the MB that no other laptop has come close to -- for me, at least.