The 12” will be (in my personal memory) the best Apple product I have ever owned.

12 had amazing form factor, but it was great only for native apps, web apps were running horrible on it. But it was beautiful at that time, it was first macbook with various colors? Even once one lady at coffee shop approached me and asked what version of MacBook it was. No no... that's end of the story :)

I almost bought one - I had, if Apple had had one in stock when I tried to buy one. A truly faszinating device. Probably the smallest "full size" laptop, depending how you could, ever made.

For sure, the weakeast point of it was the processor, which had to sacrifice too much performance to stay in the thermal budget. I guess the basic design decisions for the 12" MacbBook were made when Intel still seemed to be on track for their 10nm process. But it wasn't the only caveat with its design. It had of course the horrible butterfly keybord which would plague the Apple laptops for years and 12" is the absolute minimum screen size for doing work.

I think Apple has another laptop design < 13" coming, that could be 12". The ARM processors pretty much solve the power/performance problem. The keyboard could actually be the biggest hurdle, as it increases the body thickness. But the keyboard of the new M2 Air is just wonderful, well worth whatever it adds to the device thickness. I wouldn't even be surprised, if they don't make an ultra-thin 12" MacBook but rather a 12" MB Pro, which might be slightly thicker than the Air.

Same. It certainly had its flaws, but it was ahead of its time in many ways. At the time I was traveling a lot and didn't need much power so it was perfect for me. It seems I got extremely lucky as I never had keyboard issues with mine.

Nowadays you could stick a (maybe throttled or fewer cores to get even more battery life) M1/M2 in there, add a second USB-C port, and it would be an excellent device without any of the downsides that the original version had.

I also never had keyboard issues but mine was 2015 Gen 1. I know a couple of people who got the 2016? Or 2017? Model and their keyboard had some issues with keys not registering.

That form factor with m1/2 would be awesome! Especially to use in bed cos the screen was so nice and it was so light.

It’s also when Apple’s laptop speaker game left the earth. To this day no one even came near Apple.

Yeah the speaker on my 2015 12” is still better speaker than my 2021 Lenovo legion 7 and 2022 dell XPS 15.

I kinda wanna get an M2 Pro but I personally dislike macOS. :(

The 12” MacBook (2015) was the last Apple laptop I bought before the current MacBook Air M2. I opted for a BTO with the i7 processor but it was still stultifying and slow, a constant exercise in frustration. Eventually the motherboard died requiring an out-of-warranty repair, which I conceded to, but shortly after that the batteries died… and then I set it aside. An absolutely stunning piece of design work but so unusably slow it put me off laptops for a full seven years. What did I use in the meantime? A 2012 Mac Mini upgraded to the hilt and more recently a Mac Studio, and various releases of iPads and iPad Pros throughout the years.

I’m talking about battery. If there’s a discrete gpu it drains the battery so quick because switching between integrated and descrete sucks on windows.