![]() For my part, the conversation looked very different in March 2020 than it does today. If you’ve ever shopped for a laptop, you know the mental math - screen size and portability are inversely proportional. There are standard trade-offs, of course. As someone who invariably finds himself working on flights, I can tell you that airplane seats are one of the places in the world where a centimeter here or there actually makes a good bit of difference (I’m not made of Comfort+ upgrade money, folks). The new model is as thick as the 14-inch (actually, it’s precisely 0.01 centimeters thicker), but the overall footprint is more compact, owing to the smaller screen. The change is immediately evident in my bag, and my back is thanking me for it. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro sheds half a pound from its larger, older sibling, weighing in at 3 pounds on the nose. ![]() Given how stationary the pandemic has made most of us, portability likely hasn’t entered into too many of our gadget-buying decisions - certainly not the way it used to. Up until this flight, the 14-inch MacBook Pro has been a constant travel companion, rarely leaving my sight, lest the Find My app send out panicked signals. It’s a lot of cross-country travel after 2 years of largely not leaving my one-bedroom apartment. I’m writing this atop a tray table on my fifth flight in 3 weeks.
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