Macbook air or pro?

mp3duck

mp3duck

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I want to venture into the world of macs..
Thinking of either a Pro (15"), or an Air.

Looking at a max of around £1300 on this one.

I will be using as my secondary machine, and will take it on holidays/business trips etc.

I will probably end up dual booting with windows 7.

My question then is, go for an air, or pro?
 
gaming will be done on my PC rig.
This is just basic photo stuff, web browsing, word processing etc.
I'll use the windows boot for Visual Studio 2010 work.. That might need a more powerful machine.

Am I right in saying that the new airs have SSD drives?
 
The new Air is a very capable machine. I bought the 13" Air and in general use it feels faster than my work 15" i7 Pro, due to the SSD in the Air and conventional drive in the Pro.

Very happy with it and now the Pro feels bulky and heavy.
 
Will go and have a play on one at my local apple store this week end me thinks!

Just need to learn how to use a mac now! (life long windows user)
 
Definitely the Air imo, you can pick up the top spec (1.8ghz i7, 4gb, 256gb) for £1,246.80 on higher education so it falls within your budget.
 
mp3duck said:
Will go and have a play on one at my local apple store this week end me thinks!

Just need to learn how to use a mac now! (life long windows user)
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I made the switch about 6 months ago when the i5 Pro came out as I wasn't keen on C2D chips in a 2010 machine.

I have found them great to use, simple yet effective and very smart. Often get people looking on the train and they hold their money. I recently sold my 2011 13" pro for a 2011 13" i5 Air and managed to get £900 for it on Gumtree.

I also dual boot with Bootcamp which is just perfect.
 
Definately the air, I am going from a 2007 15" MBP to an air when I get paid in three weeks - it can't come quick enough!
 
The only thing to consider on the Air is the amount of disk space. If you're going to be dual booting then you might struggle.
 
I would get the Air personally.

The included SSD will make dual-booting a breeze, and VS2010 will easily be fine running in Boot Camp. The only benefits I have had from my MBP has been the upgrade to 8GB RAM for heavy Parallels usage and the SuperDrive.
 
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