John Siracusa

So size-wise, if you were hoping for the return of the MacBook One, and yes, many people pointed out the MacBook Neo is an anagram of MacBook One.

A, this doesn't have one port, which we'll get to in a little bit.

But B, this is not a ridiculously skinny laptop.

It is essentially MacBook Air sized.

It is actually 1.5 millimeters thicker than the MacBook Air.

And it is six millimeters less wide and eight millimeters less deep, but it is actually thicker.

So it is not a skinny little thing.

It is not a wedge.

It is not smaller than that.

Just again, think of this as essentially MacBook Air sized, a little bit smaller.

The weight is exactly the same as the MacBook Air.

So if you wanted a two pound thing, this ain't it.

It's 2.7 pounds.

It's a little bit smaller.

My guess, here's my guess.

One of the rumors that they talked about this, Apple alluded to it vaguely in their video, is that they have come up with a less expensive way to make an aluminum unibody chassis.

And it's possible that less expensive way does not remove all the material that could be removed for the most efficient weight.

yeah like it's like when you're the more expensive one like you know there's a bunch of aluminum there that's not serving a role structurally and removing every ounce of that may require more machining and precision and so on and so forth and whatever the new technique is that i don't remember the details of the rumors or this is just rumors of like they've found a way to make a unibody aluminum construction for less money than like the m1 macbook air that's my only guess because you're right the battery is less that's a pretty good guess um

the, the display, no notch, which I like, like, I feel like that's an advantage over the MacBook Air.

I mean, it's because they have big bezels around the screen.