Hi, I chose the MacBook Air for portability reasons. I didn't want a MacBook pro because of its weight, and I didn't really need the noise. My MacBook Air has the 2.0GHZ processor which is turbo boosted to 3.2 GHZ, 8GB of RAM and only 128GB of disk space. However, I could've picked a 512GB SSD as well, but I don't need it on a laptop that is mainly going to be used for studying.
Also, keep in mind that while you can update the MacBook Pro to 16GB of RAM instead, you may never need it, so this won't necessarily prove to be an advantage. The MacBook Air has several heating vents, and it doesn't actually get very hot unlike some of the earlier models. At least, it's not as horrible as you might believe. When the fan actually does work hard, it doesn't make a lot of noise. The only thing you can truly hear is all that air, but that's not really surprising. You can hear the fan noise too, of course, but I haven't found it to be very loud even when running at full speed. Regards, Nicolai On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Mike Maslo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Dean Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ian, >> Yes you are right to a point the newer mac's are very powerful with the >> quad core processors and a nice amount of ram and having ssd hard drives >> that respond very quickly it was not that long ago that most people chose >> desktops but now most are moving towards portable computers like netbooks >> laptops and tablet pc's I used to work for a large retail store and I was on >> the panel that chose the computers for all there stores and at that stage in >> the late 1999's desktop where still king but no longer with wifi making the >> choice of buying a portable computer a better choice but it still comes down >> to personal choice in the end. >> Regards Dean >> >> >> >> Sent from Dean Adams Macbook Pro >> [email protected] >> Voip phone: +6124307 9248 >> landline Phone: +61243892195 >> Mobile: +61428133758 >> Skype : deanadams9 >> >> On 01/08/2012, at 5:22 PM, Ian McNamara wrote: >> >>> Hi, I like the desktop better than the lap top because I find it more >>> powerful. 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