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- Your Mac's Specs
- iBook G4 12" 1.33Ghz/512mb.....MacBook Air 13" i5/4GB/128GB SSD
I think I find myself in good company when I say that the more I try to narrow down my list on the next computer I buy the harder to make a decision it is becoming. First, I'm coming from a 5 year old Toshiba laptop with a half working Celeron processor/512KB of Ram/55GB harddrive so literally any Mac that I buy will be many lightyears ahead of what I'm used to. Second, I plan on using it for my day to day routine (email/YouTube/webbrowsing/light photo storage and editing/iTunes storage and management as well as a station to sync my iphone and ipods) so again I know that the lowliest of the low Macs could handle any of this. I'm looking for a very solid built machine and something that I can carry with me without feeling like I have a ton of bricks in my attache case like I do with my Toshiba. A few questions before I ask for a recommendation:
1) The MBA screen has a higher resolution, just how noticeable is the difference?
2) As I understand it, the MBA has a better integrated graphics card than the 13" MBP...if I don't game at all, is that really relevent?
I speced out the MBP 13" with the i7, iWorks preinstalled and One to One membership for a year and with tax it comes to $1662.12. The MBA 13" with the 2.1 Core2Duo, 4GB Ram, and 256GB flash storage with iWorks and One to One membership with tax comes to $2018.52....so there is a $356.00 price difference the way I have equipped the two. My budget is right around $2000.00 so the MBA is pushing the high end of it, but if there is a difference worth paying for (for my uses) I don't mind paying. Thanks in advance for all of the help!
1) The MBA screen has a higher resolution, just how noticeable is the difference?
2) As I understand it, the MBA has a better integrated graphics card than the 13" MBP...if I don't game at all, is that really relevent?
I speced out the MBP 13" with the i7, iWorks preinstalled and One to One membership for a year and with tax it comes to $1662.12. The MBA 13" with the 2.1 Core2Duo, 4GB Ram, and 256GB flash storage with iWorks and One to One membership with tax comes to $2018.52....so there is a $356.00 price difference the way I have equipped the two. My budget is right around $2000.00 so the MBA is pushing the high end of it, but if there is a difference worth paying for (for my uses) I don't mind paying. Thanks in advance for all of the help!