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So a while ago I had bought a Macbook Pro, early 2012. Didn't have a real need for it so I sold it.
Dumb idea, but also good opportunity.
I'm looking into getting a Macbook Air, but wanted some input.
This will mainly be for portable study, sermon/paper writing, etc. Probably no gaming or anything of that nature.
What I'm wondering is if I were to buy a fully spec'd out Macbook Air, am I at least a little future proofed?
I would be bumping to the i7 and 8gb of ram as well as the 512gb drive. And I think that is the most I can bump that up.
Fully spec'd is about $1800.
Is that a good machine? I have to be honest, I really don't do a lot of research about the differences in these machines so don't really know the advantages of the Macbook Pro over the Air. Although I see a pretty big price difference.
Anyway, any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you all.
***EDIT***
I wanted to add something here since no one had answered just yet before I go to bed for the evening. Once again, I'm concerned about future proofing. I don't want to have to buy a new machine for quite some time in the future (on top of the fact that my wife won't let me )
So I was also looking at the 15 inch rMBP with a 2.3 quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHZ. 512gb PCIe Flash drive. 16gb ram. That machine is $2600.
Therefore my question is, is that machine really $800 better than the Air I referenced earlier?
Are there advantages/disadvantages to them other than price?
Thanks again,
Steve
Dumb idea, but also good opportunity.
I'm looking into getting a Macbook Air, but wanted some input.
This will mainly be for portable study, sermon/paper writing, etc. Probably no gaming or anything of that nature.
What I'm wondering is if I were to buy a fully spec'd out Macbook Air, am I at least a little future proofed?
I would be bumping to the i7 and 8gb of ram as well as the 512gb drive. And I think that is the most I can bump that up.
Fully spec'd is about $1800.
Is that a good machine? I have to be honest, I really don't do a lot of research about the differences in these machines so don't really know the advantages of the Macbook Pro over the Air. Although I see a pretty big price difference.
Anyway, any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you all.
***EDIT***
I wanted to add something here since no one had answered just yet before I go to bed for the evening. Once again, I'm concerned about future proofing. I don't want to have to buy a new machine for quite some time in the future (on top of the fact that my wife won't let me )
So I was also looking at the 15 inch rMBP with a 2.3 quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHZ. 512gb PCIe Flash drive. 16gb ram. That machine is $2600.
Therefore my question is, is that machine really $800 better than the Air I referenced earlier?
Are there advantages/disadvantages to them other than price?
Thanks again,
Steve