MacBook Air Refurb

K1LLSW1TCH · 12 Aug 2009 at 01:12

I've been browsing the Apple store and while I was there I thought I'd look at some of the refurbished machines. There's a MacBook Air going for £749. My question is that the specifications seem to be a bit weird. The hard drive is listed as an 80GB 4200-rpm PATA hard drive, there's no integrated wifi listed and also it uses the integrated Intel graphics chip.

Is this the first generation MacBook Air? and also who thinks that this is worth spending £750 on? By the way, it doesn't mention wether or not it has the nice glass trackpad that the new ones have. Even though it's a great looking machine I can't really seem to convince myself to spend £750 on something that is inferior to the WhiteBook that I currently have.

Also, in comparison there's a MacBook Pro going for the same price as the Air except it has 2GB of DDR3, the 256MB Nvidia 9400M, a 2.26Ghz Core2 and a Superdrive. Which would you part your cash for because I'd like both although that would just be silly, unless anybody knows wether there are going to be new revisions near the end of the year or somewhere around early next year then I might hold onto my money yet.

"andy" · 12 Aug 2009 at 01:20

i dont see any reason at all to buy the Air when that macbook pro is there at the same price ?

unless you need the extra few mm of thin ness ???

Fizzoid · 12 Aug 2009 at 12:01

"andy" said:
i dont see any reason at all to buy the Air when that macbook pro is there at the same price ?

unless you need the extra few mm of thin ness ???

What he said ^^^
Do you really need to save a few gramms? Guess it all depends on what you'll be using it for

JAMAL · 12 Aug 2009 at 12:26

The macbook air is also looking abit dated i feel, get a 13" macbook

K1LLSW1TCH · 12 Aug 2009 at 17:18

JAMAL said:
The macbook air is also looking abit dated i feel, get a 13" macbook

I've already got a WhiteBook, this would probably be for use at home as the WhiteBook will be used for uni.

But seeing as that Air is the first gen then I'll probably go with the Pro like suggested.

Xenoxide · 13 Aug 2009 at 23:00

K1LLSW1TCH said:
I've already got a WhiteBook, this would probably be for use at home as the WhiteBook will be used for uni. But seeing as that Air is the first gen then I'll probably go with the Pro like suggested.

A wise decision I feel, the MacBook Air really is a slow machine. The 4200 rpm iPod hard-drive really lets it down. And I would never ever choose a machine with integrated graphics.

Blackhawk47 · 14 Aug 2009 at 22:30

The only way I would be considering the Macbook Air, for me, would have to have the SSD instead of the slower HDD. :rolleyes:

Spuds · 15 Aug 2009 at 14:50

Xenoxide said:
A wise decision I feel, the MacBook Air really is a slow machine. The 4200 rpm iPod hard-drive really lets it down. And I would never ever choose a machine with integrated graphics.

With the SSD the 1st Gen Air is quite a capable machine, but portability really does need to be your number one concern by quite a large way to justify getting one over a normal MacBook. I'm quite looking forward to the extra 6GB of storage when I get Snow Lepord on mine.