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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by georgebarnett on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:24PM (#20397311)
RIP Macbook. You have been my favourite machine for a long time.
Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by bluedino on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:25PM (#20397328)
The 11” Air was one of my all time favorite laptops and the 12” rMB was such a great replacement.
Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by bredren on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:13PM (#20397719)
The 2015 11" Air was the best performance / value macbook Apple has ever made.
Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by bluedino on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:40AM (#20401827)
Mine was a 2010 base model, but by 2015 I had grown weary of it's limitations.

The form factor was just amazing, and even though the Core2Duo CPU wasn't anything special, with the SSD (at the time, they weren't very common) it was still a very usable machine. The battery life was my biggest complaint, only about 4 hours, and they didn't fix that until 2014.

Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by jslabovitz on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:10PM (#20398354)
Still using mine. It's great. I'm gonna be really sad when it falls out of the supported lineup.
Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by hoveringcto on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:38PM (#20397883)
I can't imagine being on an airplane with anything but my trusty MacBook. Thinking of picking up a refurb one now to replace my 2 year old version.

I also have a 13 MacBook Pro which I haven't touched in over a year.

Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by georgebarnett on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:25PM (#20398135)
My work machine is a 2018 13" Pro. Its not that I don't like it - it simply isn't a joy to use like my 12".
Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by brycehamrick on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:00PM (#20397618)
100%. Macbook has been my daily machine for 3 years now, love this little thing. Quite disappointed there's no option under 2 lbs anymore.
Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by jonny_eh on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:06PM (#20397680)
Same, to me the only feature I missed was TouchID.