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New MBA 13", good for a college student?
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<blockquote data-quote="StMFA" data-source="post: 1269066" data-attributes="member: 203876"><p>The MBP may still have better performance (haven't seen benchmarks comparing the two yet), though the disk performance will be far slower on the MBP unless you get an SSD for it. That said, I really don't think the 1.8 i7 is worth it, because I think the i5 1.7 also has hyperthreading, and the extra 100 MHz isn't going to make a huge difference. My vote is either top end MBA stock config w/ apple care, or MBP with iPad 16 or 32, (64 is utter overkill, even if you need music/movies, theyre are plenty of streaming apps available)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StMFA, post: 1269066, member: 203876"] The MBP may still have better performance (haven't seen benchmarks comparing the two yet), though the disk performance will be far slower on the MBP unless you get an SSD for it. That said, I really don't think the 1.8 i7 is worth it, because I think the i5 1.7 also has hyperthreading, and the extra 100 MHz isn't going to make a huge difference. My vote is either top end MBA stock config w/ apple care, or MBP with iPad 16 or 32, (64 is utter overkill, even if you need music/movies, theyre are plenty of streaming apps available) [/QUOTE]
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