Hello friends, I've a huge matter: whould I buy a Macbook Air or Pro?
I'd want to get a Macbook for my birthday (university's approaching, too).
I saw the new MacBook air 13" and the new MacBook Pro 13" are pretty much at the same prize.
I'll tell you things I considered:
MacBook Pro: more CPU power, more storage, more inputs, upgradable in time.
MacBook Air: better and newer design, higher resolution, faster storage.
So as you can see the pro has better hardware but slower storage (although it's much more) and a bad resolution while the air has few storage and it has few ports and cpu power.
I'd like to use it as my main machine, and I'd like not to have problems with any kind of softwares (Photoshop, iLife, Premiere, some games, HD recording).
What should I get, so?
Maximum budget: 1300-1400€
Thanks a lot!
I just looked at this question myself. I've always used Pros, and in the past what stopped me from using the Airs were the RAM capacity and the drive capacity. The new Airs change all of that..mostly. Finally you can have 8GB RAM and 512GB storage, which I think is what you would want if you are seriously talking about using Photoshop and Premiere regularly. That is a $2099 computer as configured. At that price I'm back on the 15" MacBook Pro non-Retina to stay within budget...that's the spec level I've been using for the last two laptops I've owned.
If you are thinking of getting the base 4GB RAM/256GB SSD model of the 13' Air, keep in mind that 4GB is very minimal for running Photoshop or Premiere. You will effectively only be able to run one app at a time and still possibly run out of RAM on some jobs. That is why I couldn't use the old Airs. I would only buy a new Air with 8GB RAM since you cannot upgrade it later. All my future Macs will have 16GB, the only reason I wouldn't spec the Air with it is that Apple won't let you.
OK, so that's the RAM. The 256GB SSD could run out of space fast unless you are already planning on connecting external drives for your projects/archives/HD recording targets/Photoshop scratch disks. That is why all my future Macs will be specced with 512GB minimum. And with only 4GB or 8GB RAM, you are definitely going to need an external Photoshop scratch disk if you plan on editing anything coming off a DSLR.
So, if I was to get an Air for the Adobe suite it would be the 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD Air or else a 15" MacBook Pro Retina with more power all around and the same disk capacity for only $100 more!
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