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They had a really big bezel, so the current 13" MacBook Air is barely any bigger than the 11" MacBook Air:

- It's 0.5cm thinner

- It's 0.41cm wider

- It's 2.3cm deeper

- It's 200g heavier

The aspect ratio on the 11" model was kind of weird too, a lot of apps would barely fit. But a retina screen would help there - just make everything smaller.

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Importantly, if laptop makers stuck to screen size rather than overall dimensions, a 11" with the same bezel today would be smaller than an 11" of the past, and that could be too small for a good keyboard for some.

Apple at its grandest would have made a huge deal about how something was 200g lighter. They loved shaving grams off widgets in the good old days of the 2010s.

Whatever the difference is, it's super noticeable. I gave mine away last year and I regret it daily—it was the perfect travel laptop.

I consider the air line dead, tbh—they just lost the magic when they made them bigger and they're just "macbooks" to me now... yea yea it's fanless, but that was never part of the appeal per se. Fewer ports, smaller screen, lighter. Please.

I agree. It is very noticeable. I commute on foot to work several times a week and having a laptop that I barely noticed was a delight. When I am at my desk, my laptop is docked, so the screen size is not an issue. And I’m willing to accept the trade off for the times when I do need to use it as a laptop like when sitting in an airplane; unlike my coworkers, I was never worried about the person in front of me leaning back and crunching the display. I would gladly buy an 11” Air again.

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