Should Apple Get Rid of Its 11.6-Inch MacBook Air for Good? [Poll]

By at present you've heard the rumor that Apple tree might finally get rid of its 11.half dozen-inch MacBook Air and I say more ability to them. In all honestly, smaller screen sized notebooks have been replaced past tablets and 2-in-1s and Apple will non gain much with a smaller notebook. Hither is why we are in favor of seeing the 11.6-inch MacBook Air removed completely from the lineup.

Removal of the 11.6-Inch MacBook Air Could Reduce 12-Inch MacBook Cost Tag – Smaller Form Factor Items Compromises on a Lot of Things

Like to smartphones, manufacturers have slowly started to produce large screen devices because of their natural ability to accommodate larger cells for added battery life. If y'all head down to the Apple Shop correct abroad, the 11.vi-inch MacBook is only able to deliver up to nine hours, meaning that under an ideal set of weather, you will be able to feel that bombardment life. Compare that to the 13.3-inch MacBook Air, and under those aforementioned ideal conditions, you get a whopping 12 hours of battery; that's essentially an entire day.

Even Apple's 12-inch MacBook is able to deliver more battery life and the difference of screen size is only 0.iv inches (if you measure out information technology diagonally). Such a small size difference with reduced number of advantages does not add upward to be a viable product for very long. Yous could argue that the 11.vi-inch MacBook Air offers more connectivity ports in comparison to the 12-inch MacBook, simply you tin easily get those ports and more on the xiii.3-inch MacBook. All information technology takes is a piffling extra cash and at that place is but a $100 deviation between the base model of both MacBook Air models.

That $100 difference gives you more real estate to work with, which obviously gives y'all more than room to carry out your tasks. The biggest differences are the battery life and of course the 8GB of RAM that you find in the 13.3-inch MacBook Air. The base model of the 11.6-inch model starts from 4GB RAM, so you'll have to spend a little extra for that retention. If you want to see additional specification differences between both MacBooks and the 12-inch MacBook to come across why Apple tree should go rid of it, those differences take been highlighted in the table below.

Call up that in lodge to provide a fair comparison between the three notebooks, we volition be listing downward the specifications of the base models only

Specification differences	eleven.half dozen-inch MacBook Air	13.iii-inch MacBook Air	12-inch MacBook
Display	11.6-inch LED-backlit display with 1366 x 768 resolution	13.3-inch LED-backlit display with 1440 ten 900 resolution	12-inch LED-backlit display with IPS technology and 2304 x 1440 resolution
Storage	PCIe 128GB flash memory	PCIe 128GB flash memory	PCIe 256GB flash retentiveness
Amount of RAM	4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory	8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory	8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
Processor clock speed	1.6GHz dual-core Intel Cadre i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz) with 3MB shared L3 cache	1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost upwardly to 2.7GHz) with 3MB shared L3 enshroud	Intel Core m3 ane.1GHz dual-core processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.2GHz) with 4MB L3 cache
Bombardment and other statistics	Upwardly to ix hours wireless web Up to x hours iTunes moving-picture show playback Up to 30 days standby time	Upward to 12 hours wireless web Up to 12 hours iTunes movie playback Up to 30 days standby time	Up to ten hours wireless web Up to 11 hours iTunes moving picture playback Upward to 30 days standby time
Ports	Two USB 3 ports (upwards to 5Gbps) Thunderbolt 2 port (up to 20Gbps) MagSafe 2 power port three.5mm headphone jack	Ii USB 3 ports (up to 5Gbps) Thunderbolt 2 port (upwardly to 20Gbps) MagSafe 2 power port SDXC card slot 3.5mm headphone jack	Single Blazon-C USB port (up to 5Gbps)
Toll tag for base model	$899	$999	$1,299

Looking at these differences, we have also provided you lot guys with a poll, so requite us your opinion if the 11.half dozen-inch MacBook Air should stay, or get a thing of retentiveness.

Should the 11.vi-inch MacBook Air be refreshed, or go a thing of memory