On 15-inch MacBook Air: Is It Too Big?

When the 15-inch MacBook Air 💻 was officially announced, I was excited and knew it would replace my M1 MacBook Air. Since then, I read many reviews and watched many unboxing videos. People seem to enjoy the new bigger MBA, and all is good, right? But, is it?

Nobody talks about the device’s size when you use it on your lap like I do with my MBA right now as I write this post. It’s an important factor to consider for such laptop category which the MBA is targeting. Are 15 inches too wide? Is it still comfortable? For some reason, I have a few doubts. This 15-inch MacBook Air is… big, but is it too big for me? 🤔

When I come back from vacation, a visit to the Apple Store will help me decide once and for all.

My current M1 MacBook Air on my lap

Funny thing: I don’t see many comments about iOS 17’s autocorrect. Is it really better or what?? Either nobody cares, not that many are using iOS 17 yet (it’s beta 1, after all), people are busy checking compatibility with their apps, or it’s the same sh**? 🤔

I’m still slowly digesting Apple news of this week (think of a cow 🐄 in the field 🌿). About macOS Sonoma widgets 🖼️: it’s surprising that Apple is showing widgets to be perfectly aligned when they are dropped on the desktop background. According to some YouTuber’s early reviews, you can be messy with them and drop them wherever you want. People will get messy, for sure.

I’m still digesting everything we heard and saw today. Like someone wrote today: what was that? I already read good (and dumb) reactions here and there, from which I’m trying to stay away, just to focus and maybe get my analysis and perspective one of my own. That’s not easy; it’s so noisy out there right now. Stay tuned for later this week.

A women wearing the new Apple Vision Pro headset.

A Few Last-Minute Questions for WWDC2023

It’s Apple keynote day, and it is exciting but also stressful! Here are last-minute questions.

  • Will the headset pricing be announced today?
  • Will the headset be like the Apple Watch and be running apps, or will it be more like CarPlay, with some additional viewport from the iPhone? Or a combination?
  • Is the headset unveiled with a “one more thing” segment?
  • When the iPad was announced, Steve Jobs spent some time explaining its relative position within the use cases spectrum of our computing devices. Where does the headset fit?
  • Will the headset announcement overshadow Apple’s timid foray into generative AI?
  • Is Xcode finally coming to the iPad?
  • Can we infer something about the rumors setting the price 1999$ when we compare that to the AirPods Max price?
  • Tim Cook’s air time has decreased in recent events, is the trend continuing today?
  • Can we expect another meme moment from Craig Federighi?
  • Who’s going to present the headset? Jeff Williams, just like for the Apple Watch Ultra?
  • Can any of the announcements today affect my Apple hardware upgrade plan?

For someone who’s not interested in the headset, I have far too many questions about it. I’ll return to this post once the event is complete to fill in the answers!

👉🏻 This is WWDC day! Here are some informative tidbits. Two weeks ago, I set up a fake meeting in my work calendar for the entire afternoon (EST time here). I’ll be out of the office for the whole afternoon. I’ve been doing that for more than ten years. It worked 9 out of 10 times. I should be good to go today.

I’ll watch the keynote from within Safari to take screenshots (with the TV app, screenshots don’t work 🤔). Then, using a configured button on my StreamDeck mini, I’ll take the screenshots that will be saved and moved to my Synology NAS automatically; thanks to Hazel. The excellent Mastodon client, Ivory, will be running too side-by-side so that I can see reactions coming in. Sadly, feed streaming is not yet a thing on Mastodon, apparently.

My expectations are relatively low for all the tech announcements but high for the keynote production value and quality.

😱I just realized that for the first time in quite a while, I’ll be following WWDC news outside of Twitter. I’m unsure if I’ll go on Mastodon or Bluesky to read the room temperature. I’ll see. Maybe I’ll just make up my own mind, too, which is a good thing. 🤔💭

I forgot so many things to talk about in my WWDC 2023 expectations YouTube video… 🤦🏻‍♂️ like the Watch Face store that I wish Apple would be doing someday. At least this is covered in my article published earlier. Not all is lost. 😅