Hey Guys ! I need help on figuring out which MacBook Air to buy . Please Help Me !
I Need Help Figuring Out Which MacBook Air To Buy.
Avoid the MacBook Pro (non retina) unless you absolutely need to burn or read DVD/CD media on the road and don't want to carry around a small external optical drive. That leaves the MBA and the MBPr as your two choices. The Air's advantage is extreme portability and battery life - especially with the standard CPU. The MBPr's main advantage is its display. Both are perfectly good workhorse computers for school and work. Neither is especially good for gaming other than casual games. In fact many games don't support the Intel integrated video at all.
Once you've decided on which model I strongly recommend that you have at least 8GB of RAM. How large a drive depends on how much you intend to stuff onto your computer. Using my MBA for home and work, which includes a minimal installation of Windows 7 for programming and verifying that websites look and behave acceptably on both platforms, I can fit everything I need on a 256GB drive but could never live on a 128GB drive. My wife, however, could have saved a little cash and gone with the 128GB model.
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1 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
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BANK 1/DIMM0
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Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
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3rd Macbook Air ALREADY! PLEASE HELP APPLE FOLKS!
so im watching some clips on my macbook air with my apple headphones plugged into the audio jack. I noticed that there was an annoying high pitch ringing noise and it wouldn't stop. I would mute the sound on the MBA and unmute it and it would stop. Then i would load up more clips and it would do it some more! Im wondering if i need to call apple about this? Someone Reply Thanks so much
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Model Name: MacBook
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Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
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Total Number Of Cores: 2
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I've been thinking about this every since Jobs announced the new MBA's, but thought I'd turn to more experience brains here for some help. I'm trying to sell my Late 2008 MBP 15.4" on Craigslist in order to get a new 13.3" MBA with 2.13GHz process and 4GB RAM. The confounding thing is that I also have a 64GB iPad (WiFi only).
Here's my dilemma: should I just sell my MBP and get the MBA? Side note, I've gotten ZERO response to my Craigslist ads If I do buy the 13.3" MBA should I also try to sell my iPad? For some reason, I feel like having a MBA and an iPad is too duplicative and unnecessary.
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I sold my nearly 3 year old MB on craigslist in the Seattle area for about what the website above said it was worth. I had a buy almost immediately.
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