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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 588936" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>Okay, I'll step back from the rhetoric for just a moment for a serious, informed, and positively dull response based on my experience:</p><p></p><p>A Macbook Air is about the most sexy computer you can buy right now. It is unfortunately, however, targeted squarely at the same people who, back in the day, would have bought a Toshiba Libretto: The tech company CEO/CIO/CFO etc. You know, the type of person the IT department served. And by serving I mean at beck and call type of serving. Good gig if you can get it, quite lucrative, but there's a price. A personal price.</p><p></p><p>For an IT person intent on getting actual work done, not necessarily defined by attending meetings and talking on and on about synergy, relationship leveraging, and other marketing drivel, you're going to want to start out with a regular old Macbook. If you want to be different, spend the extra $150 or so and get the black one. </p><p></p><p>A Macbook is almost as sexy as a Macbook Air, but considering you're going to want to possibly do the all three worlds type things I mentioned in my previous post it's just going to be easier to have the crucial peripherals available that the Macbook Air lacks: A DVD drive, firewire port, and extra USB. You can get it done without those things, but I would advise that if you are going to jump into the Mac world, you do so with a machine that you'll a) be able to do everything analogue to what you know your Windows laptop is capable of, b) won't have to jump through some hoops (installing Windows either virtual or native comes to mind) c) experience the full Mac OS experience without any limitations, thus minimizing potential frustrations and d) the Macbook is not a whole lot bigger or heavier than the Macbook Air while still getting you into the Mac OS X that we all know we're going to end up with.</p><p></p><p>Or I could put it like this. A Macbook is a smaller investment to get into a new and, because this is a Mac board I'll blatantly say superior platform. Were I in your position (as opposed to my own position two years ago where I was in your position and went a different way to where we are now) I would buy the Macbook to get the experience an subsequently make the money to later buy the Macbook Air. Once you know what a Mac can do, you can then go with the svelte, awesomeness of the Macbook Air, but for First Mac? IMHO, you need to get the machine that makes you go "Man, this thing is awesome! I'll never have a machine that runs anything Microsoft as it's primary OS again!" first so that later you can go "Now let's take a quick look at those sexy Macbook Air specs again. What am I giving up now? Okay, I can do without that, or that, or that, $1800? Geez....well, okay it's just so sexy."</p><p></p><p>Okay, so maybe that wasn't so dull. Hopefully it will have been informative.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 588936, member: 9385"] Okay, I'll step back from the rhetoric for just a moment for a serious, informed, and positively dull response based on my experience: A Macbook Air is about the most sexy computer you can buy right now. It is unfortunately, however, targeted squarely at the same people who, back in the day, would have bought a Toshiba Libretto: The tech company CEO/CIO/CFO etc. You know, the type of person the IT department served. And by serving I mean at beck and call type of serving. Good gig if you can get it, quite lucrative, but there's a price. A personal price. For an IT person intent on getting actual work done, not necessarily defined by attending meetings and talking on and on about synergy, relationship leveraging, and other marketing drivel, you're going to want to start out with a regular old Macbook. If you want to be different, spend the extra $150 or so and get the black one. A Macbook is almost as sexy as a Macbook Air, but considering you're going to want to possibly do the all three worlds type things I mentioned in my previous post it's just going to be easier to have the crucial peripherals available that the Macbook Air lacks: A DVD drive, firewire port, and extra USB. You can get it done without those things, but I would advise that if you are going to jump into the Mac world, you do so with a machine that you'll a) be able to do everything analogue to what you know your Windows laptop is capable of, b) won't have to jump through some hoops (installing Windows either virtual or native comes to mind) c) experience the full Mac OS experience without any limitations, thus minimizing potential frustrations and d) the Macbook is not a whole lot bigger or heavier than the Macbook Air while still getting you into the Mac OS X that we all know we're going to end up with. Or I could put it like this. A Macbook is a smaller investment to get into a new and, because this is a Mac board I'll blatantly say superior platform. Were I in your position (as opposed to my own position two years ago where I was in your position and went a different way to where we are now) I would buy the Macbook to get the experience an subsequently make the money to later buy the Macbook Air. Once you know what a Mac can do, you can then go with the svelte, awesomeness of the Macbook Air, but for First Mac? IMHO, you need to get the machine that makes you go "Man, this thing is awesome! I'll never have a machine that runs anything Microsoft as it's primary OS again!" first so that later you can go "Now let's take a quick look at those sexy Macbook Air specs again. What am I giving up now? Okay, I can do without that, or that, or that, $1800? Geez....well, okay it's just so sexy." Okay, so maybe that wasn't so dull. Hopefully it will have been informative. [/QUOTE]
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