Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by exe34 on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:44PM (#39596527)

Are thinkpads considered "ultra mobile" (or whatever the buzzword is nowadays)? I thought they were more hefty? The thin/lightweight laptops from back then had crappy clickety keyboards.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by mhb on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:01PM (#39596741)

Of course they were heftier, but "nicest keyboard" and "nicest keyboard given ridiculous thickness constraints" are a world apart. No idea what you mean about crappy Thinkpad keyboards. The old Thinkpad keyboards are widely acknowledged to have been great.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by exe34 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:17AM (#39604447)

> Back in 2013 when I bought my current laptop, the mac book air was the thinnest, lightest, longest battery life, nicest keyboard, and a bunch of superlatives I don't remember, and it was somewhat over £1000. The closest non-mac "ultrabooks" I could find in shops at the time cost the same, and felt like cheap rubbish.

It seems like you've changed my requirements and then decided the thinkpads were a great fit.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by mhb on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:39AM (#39604783)

Not at all. Maybe what you intended to write was "nicest keyboard given my other constraints". But that's not what you wrote. And it's not what "superlatives" suggest either.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by exe34 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:32AM (#39617644)

You're a pedant, Harry!

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