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A friend has asked me to help her purchase a used MacBook Air. She knows I've never had anything but Macs all the years she's known me and wants to try a Mac, this time around. (I still have every Mac I've ever owned, including the old black and white Mac Classic, which still works just fine.) A MacBook Air, however, is something I've never paid much attention to.
I'm reading what I can about them, but I'm thoroughly confused about flash memory storage. I guess, because I'm not a gamer, I don't understand much of what I'm reading and don't realize the importance of the specs. Would anyone please explain what sort of questions I need to ask the seller (probably Craigslist) about their MacBook Air to determine how much actual memory the laptop has? Do I ask for onboard memory or is it all about flash memory? (My friend's shortcoming is stuffing her current laptops full of all kinds of crud, until it's a log-jam of sludge. She's going to need a good bit of actual memory.) I suppose that is my question: is "flash storage" memory in the MacBook Air comparable to actual onboard memory in another computer, i.e., MacBook Pro, etc.?
Thank you for any effort to educate me.
I'm reading what I can about them, but I'm thoroughly confused about flash memory storage. I guess, because I'm not a gamer, I don't understand much of what I'm reading and don't realize the importance of the specs. Would anyone please explain what sort of questions I need to ask the seller (probably Craigslist) about their MacBook Air to determine how much actual memory the laptop has? Do I ask for onboard memory or is it all about flash memory? (My friend's shortcoming is stuffing her current laptops full of all kinds of crud, until it's a log-jam of sludge. She's going to need a good bit of actual memory.) I suppose that is my question: is "flash storage" memory in the MacBook Air comparable to actual onboard memory in another computer, i.e., MacBook Pro, etc.?
Thank you for any effort to educate me.