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[BoDEAN]

What were some factors that you took into account when making the decision to purchase your Air or Mac Book Pro?
I have an old windows laptop which is dead, and would like to replace that with an Apple laptop. I currently have a powerful windows desktop computer that I spend most of my computer time on when at home. I am a pilot who travels a lot, and have been using my iPAD 1 to replace my old windows laptop on the road. It has done a fine job.

I am now moving into a phase of my life where I am working on more reports for myself (MS word, but excited to try Pages). I also will be doing a lot of wordpress work and development. I am finding the iPAD is not an ideal tool for this. So I am now looking for an Apple laptop that I can take on the road, and use around the house. I've looking at 13 or 15 inch, nothing bigger than that. Would love to hear input from others. Thanks.

[Jester124]

I went with the 15in Macbook Pro mainly for the dedicated video card. It still has good battery life and if I want, I can still play games on it.

[Rudy]

I went for the 13" MBA because it has the same resolution as the 15" mbp and it's tiny compared to the 15"

[+Spirit Dave]

Spec. The Air's aren't as powerful, and have smaller screens.

I have a Corsair Force GT in my Macbook Pro too so it's not like it's hard drive doesn't rock it either.

I actually now plug into a Thunderbolt display at home and in the office. So I never really use the 15 inch display for anything but Spotify

[Miuku.]

Power. I needed more horsepower, memory and drive capacity than the Air offered.

[John S.]

size and weight when i got my daughter an Air for college...cd/dvd drive wasn't an issue, i already had an external she could use when she needed it

[rajputwarrior]

macbook air's are toys at best. don't come with a USB stick to reinstall and to recover the damn thing you to be on wifi so it can download all of the components.

[kaffra]

i went for the 13" mbp because i wanted something portable, adequate hdd space and a optical drive doesnt hurt incase somebody wants to share via dvd.

[Rudy]

rajputwarrior, on 23 April 2012 - 19:00, said:

macbook air's are toys at best. don't come with a USB stick to reinstall and to recover the damn thing you to be on wifi so it can download all of the components.

I disagree, I do all my programming on my 13" Air

[ybrett23]

13" air,
purchased in singapore £400 cheaper than here , was a moment of, "hmmm i dont have one of them, **** thats cheap, il take 1 please"

[robertobaggio2k]

i went with the macbook pro because it had the dvd drive

[rajputwarrior]

Rudy, on 23 April 2012 - 19:07, said:

I disagree, I do all my programming on my 13" Air

they are a nightmare for us at work...

[Gotenks98]

Went with the pro so I can play games on it. I do alot of gaming so that was essential. Plus the air is extremely underpowered for its price point. There is no reason why they could put the same processor and card in those systems or at least something closer to it. But again thats apple for you, make you pay more for less stuff.

[Depicus]

Went for the top range 11" MBA because I had a 17" MBP - the 11" is for travel and great for the lap on the sofa at night

I also do video with FCX and it's very good at that so not underpowered at all

[+Elliott]

Gotenks98, on 23 April 2012 - 19:40, said:

But again thats apple for you, make you pay more for less stuff.

Really? Because comparable Ultrabooks are actually just as expensive if not more, and they're apparently still not as well engineered as the MacBook Air.

Also, they can't put the same processor and specs in the MacBook Air because it's a much smaller machine with a smaller battery.

As for perceived speed, my MacBook Air is fast. Really fast. I've actually ditched my iMac and am using my MacBook Air with a Thunderbolt Display because I was tired of maintaining applications and preferences between both machines. Haven't noticed a single hitch in my day-to-day graphic design and web development work. Sure, the MBA takes a little longer to compile an application than my iMac, but that's about the only time I notice the less powerful CPU.