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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
2015 MBP vs 2018 MBA?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1805168" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>I have an older MBA with the 1.3Ghz CPU and 4GB of memory and my wife used to use it for a lot of browsing/netflix watching and it had no problems doing any of that. My use (developer) is significantly higher and the brief time I was forced to use it in between my MBP's was excruciating. Now my daughter uses it for her schoolwork and it perfectly fits her needs.</p><p></p><p>If you can swing it, with your school discount, you should go for the 16GB of memory. You can stick with the 128GB of SSD (but upgrade if you can afford) and grab a large (and likely cheaper) external drive for most of your data. That way you don't fill up the internal drive with too many stuff and cause yourself issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1805168, member: 110816"] I have an older MBA with the 1.3Ghz CPU and 4GB of memory and my wife used to use it for a lot of browsing/netflix watching and it had no problems doing any of that. My use (developer) is significantly higher and the brief time I was forced to use it in between my MBP's was excruciating. Now my daughter uses it for her schoolwork and it perfectly fits her needs. If you can swing it, with your school discount, you should go for the 16GB of memory. You can stick with the 128GB of SSD (but upgrade if you can afford) and grab a large (and likely cheaper) external drive for most of your data. That way you don't fill up the internal drive with too many stuff and cause yourself issues. [/QUOTE]
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