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MacBook Air or Pro for dissertation?
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<blockquote data-quote="cmarie" data-source="post: 1252073" data-attributes="member: 204558"><p>Thank you, chscag and wescoe. Wescoe, to answer your question, here's what I have:</p><p></p><p>My spouse has a new-ish Dell desktop from last fall. Not my cup of tea, but the screen is as big as I could want and I am adequate at using it. So if I need a big screen for part of the project, I can use that as long as it isn't dependent on Mac software.</p><p></p><p>I also have a 13'' MacBook from 2006. I do like the screen size and it seems like it performs well enough most of the time. However, my MacBook has a variety of minor things wrong with it and I am trying to decide if that adds up to needing a whole new machine. (To contextualize the situation, it needs a new battery, the optical drive is shot, it does that thing where I get kicked off of the Internet and have to toggle AirPort off/on to get it to work again, the fans run almost constantly at over 6000 rpm with no provocation, and I only have about 5 GB of memory to spare so I would need to delete lots of files to truly revive this computer.)</p><p></p><p>If anyone here has any opinions on whether it sounds like my current MacBook is worth tinkering with or getting professionally fixed, I'd love to hear them. The most important thing is to have something that meets my needs, but if I could do that without replacing the computer entirely, that might be nice. (but it would be fun to have an Air!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cmarie, post: 1252073, member: 204558"] Thank you, chscag and wescoe. Wescoe, to answer your question, here's what I have: My spouse has a new-ish Dell desktop from last fall. Not my cup of tea, but the screen is as big as I could want and I am adequate at using it. So if I need a big screen for part of the project, I can use that as long as it isn't dependent on Mac software. I also have a 13'' MacBook from 2006. I do like the screen size and it seems like it performs well enough most of the time. However, my MacBook has a variety of minor things wrong with it and I am trying to decide if that adds up to needing a whole new machine. (To contextualize the situation, it needs a new battery, the optical drive is shot, it does that thing where I get kicked off of the Internet and have to toggle AirPort off/on to get it to work again, the fans run almost constantly at over 6000 rpm with no provocation, and I only have about 5 GB of memory to spare so I would need to delete lots of files to truly revive this computer.) If anyone here has any opinions on whether it sounds like my current MacBook is worth tinkering with or getting professionally fixed, I'd love to hear them. The most important thing is to have something that meets my needs, but if I could do that without replacing the computer entirely, that might be nice. (but it would be fun to have an Air!) [/QUOTE]
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