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It's ok

It's a very handsome name. I like that its recognizable but not too popular.

It gives a mild, somewhat dithery impression, in spite of Macbeth's nemesis. I don't exactly mind it, but I'd never use it.

Looooove :)
I would have used it in a heartbeat but DH wasn’t too fond of it.

I like it a lot. Mal is a good nickname, even though I know it means "bad" in other languages.

I like it - started to after encountering a small boy with the name. It just seemed really cool to me.
It's pretty rare for me to think a name is old and clunky, and then suddenly see it as cool, but that's what happened.
I used to think Malcolm was one of these "stiff and cranky old guy" (imo) names like Arthur and Walter and Herbert ... but then I saw it on the child and it seemed to transform into a "strong man-name that suits a rebellious youth too" - more along the lines of Henry or Gordon or Oscar.
I think brothers Malcolm and Duncan would be cool.

It always reminds me of of man I once saw in a tv series. A burly man with a good soul. I think he was a woodworker. He went by the nickname Mal. I like the name because of him.

Malcolm is one of my very favorite names for a boy, and is probably the most enduring name in my short list. My main associations are Malcolm X and Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. A huge portion of my PNL are M- and N-heavy names, and Malcolm is clearly in the former category.

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I've played around with a few combos over the years:

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Malcolm Elliott
Malcolm Caleb
Malcolm James
Malcolm Charles
Malcolm Cameron
Malcolm Thomas
Malcolm Timothy
Malcolm Leo
Malcolm Leonard
Malcolm Leopold
Malcolm Edmond
Malcolm Esmond
Malcolm Desmond
Malcolm Damian

I think I'm too reminded of Malcolm-in-the-Middle to ever use it, but I like it in general.