Hi Rod & All
I have an Air as well as a Macbook Pro. I use the Air mainly when I
travel but may start using it when I am out & about as I have home
broadband as well as mobile broadband. The Macbook Pro is my
"desktop" computer!
I personally think the Air is essentially a travelling laptop when you
may not be doing all the things you would be at home, although some
may want to do photo things in which case a Pro may be more appropriate.
Cheers, Alex
On 08/11/2010, at 5:53 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote:
Hi WAMUGers
two different (Windoze) people asked me today about buying a
macbook air.
I've done a bit of homework, see below.
Please do you have anything to add to either list or an overall
opinion?
ta
Blitto
AIR Plusses
• Flash storage - instant on!! Amazing!
• Flash storage - no moving parts! Less things can go wrong.
• Small and light
• Large multi-touch trackpad
• up to 5 hr battery
• External, plug in via USB CD/DVD drive only costs an extra $99
• Very sexy!!
AIR Minuses
• No CD Drive
• No DVD Drive
• Less storage - 64, 128 (extra $200) or 256 GB (extra $700) - this
might be an issue if you are into movie making or storing thousands
of digital photos at high res
• MacBook Pro come3s standard with 250 GB storage and options up to
512 GB storage for an extra $189
• Might need an extra 2GB of RAM if you are into photo & movie
editing (extra $135)
• No firewire port (if you have a firewire movie camera or external
firewire hard drive)
• Doesn't have ethernet port (BUT does have wireless N)
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