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Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by aetherson on Friday April 15, 2016 @05:43PM (#11507849)
There's clearly a pretty severely diminished return in chasing further thinness for laptops. At this point, the controlling factor for their portability is neither weight nor thickness, it's the other two dimensions (which, obviously, carry much harsher tradeoffs to minimizing than do weight and thickness).

That wasn't true five years ago, but it absolutely is today.

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Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by mchahn on Sunday April 17, 2016 @12:09AM (#11513460)
> There's clearly a pretty severely diminished return in chasing further thinness for laptops.

Also, weight is approaching the totally diminished return. As long as I can hold an extended laptop between thumb and forefinger, weight no longer matters. I reached that point several years ago.

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