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Hoping the new MacBook Air redesign comes in smaller than the current 13” model. I’m looking to upgrade from a 2014 11” MacBook Air, which was one of my favorite computers I’ve ever owned, but the performance was never great. Vastly better performance in a similar form factor and a jaunty color to boot would be a really great upgrade.

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I begrudgingly admit that the M1 Air is one of the best computers ever made, having never liked Apple as a company. Not sure what kind of smaller you’re aiming for, but that thing is borderline too small, which is just about perfect.

Agree, it's a fantastic product. Performance is great, form factor is great. I don't every really think about the computer at all, just what I'm doing with it, which is perfect.

If anything, I think the perfect machine for me would be a 15" macbook air. Same thin design, slightly larger chassis with an edge-to-edge screen. I don't need more performance, but a little more screen real-estate would be nice.

It's a bit bigger and heavier than the old 11" MacBook Air models. Lots of people found that one too small. It has a short trackpad because the screen is so short. It still had a full width keyboard though.

12" Macbook form factor would be perfect. That thing was always slow with Intel, with M1 it would be super-compact, powerful computer.

Personally I'm expecting the Air revamp to bear a strong resemblance to the discontinued 12" MacBook, with the big differences being:

- Screen with taller aspect ratio and notch

- Keyboard with slightly more travel

- Die-shrunken M1 CPU (M2 will probably be for flagship models only, similar to latest A-series in iPhones/iPads)

It'll undoubtedly work better than when they tried that with Intel CPUs.

Macbook is the one I bought to side with 15”. Still waiting for the same form factor and weight to get another macbook. Do have a m1 to get my feet wet.

I doubt that they would use a screen smaller than the 13” but they might shrink the bezels enough to get the overall package pretty close to the size of the 12” MacBook.

I had that 11.5” Air and it was my main computer for several years. Amazing performance for such a tiny thing. Mostly connected to an external display when at home.

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