Keep or sell my mac book air?

Last year I found a really great deal on a new mac book air and splurged and bought it. I love my iphone and ipad so I figured i'd love that. I don't have a desktop so I figured it would come in handy. Mostly when I ran into problems getting onto certain sites on the ipad. Well the mac book air sits. I rarely use it. My kids don't like it much either. I find it confusing so I mostly just use my ipad. I talked to a store near here and they would buy it from me for $500. I'm on the fence about it. Why I don't know, because it just sits. Am I missing something to love about it? Do I really need it since I have my ipad?

This is a tough one. As an Air owner and a iPad 3 owner I can sympathize with the idea of both of them having considerable overlap in terms of use. On the one hand the iPad is lighter (though not much, especially with a keyboard), it's instant on, and the internet is built in. It's simplicity itself to go somewhere, open the cover and begin reading or watching a video or doing email (though I use a Logitech bluetooth keyboard for that). However, the iPad has it's weaknesses.
For one thing, if you use your computer to work (I remote into work with it) you NEED a conventional computer (in fact I have to use parallels 8 and Windows 7 VM). And with no file system, it's hard to organize your work. Page's files are pathetically inadequate for that kind of thing. Also the iPad lacks flash and that means certain websites are out of your reach on the pad. If you want to do photo editing, there might be some primitive capabilities on the iPad, but nothing you'd want to use much. Nothing compared to Aperture or Lightroom, or Photoshop. And again, large amounts of photographs need organizational capabilities the iPad lacks.
But if all you want to do is consume -- read ebooks, watch youtube, do email, use IOS games, etc., then the iPad is easier and more trouble free, and it's cheaper too. But even in that case, I'd use an external keyboard because I for one can't type worth anything on the iPad's virtual keyboard. It's hard to believe anyone would be able to use an iPad for their ONLY computer (for one thing, you really want a computer to sync the iPad to), but it's up to you. Why sync? If your iPad is damaged and you need to buy another one and you have a backup, you can just connect up the new one and all your work will be back. You can't really do that yet with the cloud, not completely.

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Problem description:
Mac book air is freezing
EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
Report generated January 11, 2015 8:19:59 PM PST
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