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I like how cheap it is. But I’m not a typical Apple user. My laptop is a MacBook Air 11” that does everything I need it to do that I bought on eBay for about $75 in 2022.

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I was hoping they might have brought back the 11" Air. I never do much serious work on the run so a small device like that would be ideal for me.

I replied to somebody else earlier, but the 11" air and the new neo are very close in physical size.

The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12".

It's partly the weight that made the 11" MacBook Air great:

  MacBook Air: 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs)
  MacBook Neo: 1.23 kg (2.70 lbs)

I'd assume the bezels would shrink in a modern version.

Definitely not typical, the 11" MacBooks had terrible screens by modern standards and have no hardware acceleration for modern video codecs.

It really is too bad they never upgraded that 1366x768 LCD in the 11" MacBooks otherwise I think they could be great linux devices today.

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