Considering purchasing Macbook Air.
Hi there.
I am considering purchasing a MacBook Air. I just wanted to get your take on it as I have been hearing some horror stories about it and I am a little concerned.
I have heard there are battery issues, overheating, fan troubles. I have also heard the Air has trouble displaying streaming media(Youtube).
However, I have also heard MBA users who love the portability of the Air and some say their machines run fine.
So I am kinda sitting on the fence here. Should I go for the convenient MBA(portability, etc) or go the safer route and go for the MacBook Pro. I have had a MBP before and was kinda hoping for a change with the MBA. However with everything I have been hearing I am unsure what to do.
Can some of you give me your advice on this?
BTW, I was intending on buying the 2nd gen MBA with SSD in hopes this would boost speed etc.
Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks and I look forward to your reply.
...Bruce
I'm also on the fence. I have a plain old 13" MacBook that I bought just before the announcement of the MacBook Air, so I kicked myself for a few weeks, thinking I'd missed a golden opportunity... but then the complaints started pouring in over the internet. I'm assuming all the bugs have been worked out by now. Most of the problems seem to be with earlier models, but I've seen no input from newer owners.
Basically, I use my MacBook for writing. I use screenwriting software, Safari for research, and Pages for some other word processing needs, and that's pretty much it. Oh, and iTunes while I'm writing, but I play my music from another source if one's available. Once in a while, I might YouTube something. Unlike people who maintain only one computer, I have an iMac for everything else (movies, music, Photoshop, games, etc.) because I like to keep my work separate. That said, I find the MacBook cumbersome; I never use the superdrive, the firewire, or more than one USB port at a time; my entire set-up is wireless. So it SEEMS like it's right up my alley, but I often run my screenwriting software simultaneously with Pages and Safari (and usually Adium/MSN) for upwards of 12 hours straight (sometimes I work like a fiend). I need all of these programs to run together in order to work. So, is this going to work for me? I find that my MacBook really slows down when I'm running all of these at once, but it doesn't usually start until I've been working for a very long time.
I should probably mention that I intend to buy the stronger 2.13GHz version with the 128GB solid-state drive or whatever the most powerful/most expensive model comes out with the next revision this spring (if there is one).
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