13" MacBook Air vs 13" MacBook Pro Retina for aperture while traveling

Okay team, I think that I now the answer to this but here goes.
I'm looking for a light MacBook to take with me to download my photos into Aperture and do sorting, tagging, maybe light editing for posting online. We are traveling to Europe for 24 days this summer, and I will be backing up pictures for 4 people.
I had thought about a used Air, but the recent price drop of the 13" Retina MacBooks, military exchange has dropped the price on last years 13" Retina down to $1500 with the 256gb SSD, and no taxes. It's about the same as the 13" MacBook Air with the price drop.
Is this a no brainer? I haven't used a smaller MacBook like this before, my old one was a 17" and my wife has a 2011 15" MacBook Pro.
Any opinions? Thanks, Mark

The graphic card is the same in the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display and the MacBook Air, and the processor is similar, so you won't experience any big difference between them, but the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display will be faster. Apart from that, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display comes with 8 GB of memory. Note that the memory in both MacBooks come soldered, so buy your Mac with the memory you are going to need

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