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Apple Computing Products:
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MacBook Pro vs MacBook Air
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1545994" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>A "computer peripheral" = things outside the computer: mouse, keyboard, printers, routers, external hard drives, etc...</p><p></p><p>None of those other things make up for a slower CPU.</p><p></p><p>SSD will speed up boot time, application launch times, anything related to retrieving and writing data to the drive.</p><p></p><p>Anyone planning on doing any encoding work should be paying for the fastest CPU they can afford.</p><p>With today's CPUs, for all the normal stuff people do, not nearly as important as it was in times past.</p><p></p><p>GPU, while the HD5000 is apparently vastly superior to the HD4000, I wouldn't recommend either one of them to someone planning on doing any hardcore 3D gaming, graphics or modeling. The developers of most of the high end games, still are not writing for those cards. </p><p></p><p>My '11 MBA with the HD3000 has handled games like WoW, B&W, CoH, Civ 5, TF2 adequately.</p><p>I am not the hardcore gamer that had to build a new rig (or at least upgrade the GPU) once every 12 months any longer.</p><p></p><p>For a young person in school and not having any clue how much data they're going to want to put on the drive over the next 2-4 years, I would recommend the MBP, primarily for the larger drive, ability to put in a much larger drive at a cheaper price and additional ports available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1545994, member: 24160"] A "computer peripheral" = things outside the computer: mouse, keyboard, printers, routers, external hard drives, etc... None of those other things make up for a slower CPU. SSD will speed up boot time, application launch times, anything related to retrieving and writing data to the drive. Anyone planning on doing any encoding work should be paying for the fastest CPU they can afford. With today's CPUs, for all the normal stuff people do, not nearly as important as it was in times past. GPU, while the HD5000 is apparently vastly superior to the HD4000, I wouldn't recommend either one of them to someone planning on doing any hardcore 3D gaming, graphics or modeling. The developers of most of the high end games, still are not writing for those cards. My '11 MBA with the HD3000 has handled games like WoW, B&W, CoH, Civ 5, TF2 adequately. I am not the hardcore gamer that had to build a new rig (or at least upgrade the GPU) once every 12 months any longer. For a young person in school and not having any clue how much data they're going to want to put on the drive over the next 2-4 years, I would recommend the MBP, primarily for the larger drive, ability to put in a much larger drive at a cheaper price and additional ports available. [/QUOTE]
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