It's time to replace my daughter's MacBook for Christmas. I don't know a f'ng thing about Macs. Should I get the Pro or Air? Anybody see any great deals out there anywhere?
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Depends on what your daughter wants to do with her laptop. If she's editing graphics, doing high intensive work, then a Pro. If she's just using it to scroll CycloneFanatic, then Air is fine.
If you list out more specifics I can help guide you, and maybe even suggest an alternative (Windows) laptop as well with better specs (better bang for your buck).
Also glad to see a fellow Texan Fanatic.
If you list out more specifics I can help guide you, and maybe even suggest an alternative (Windows) laptop as well with better specs (better bang for your buck).
Also glad to see a fellow Texan Fanatic.
Her Air has been fine until now as it's basically been a word processor for her for school. But being in Marketing she's at that point where she's doing quite a bit of graphics/publishing type of stuff. She's pretty set on a Mac as it's what she's used to.
If she values mobility the new 13inch Pro would be best. 16inches can be quite massive to lug around
I was just weighing this decision myself and ended up going with the Air. I'm a Windows user considering converting for home use because of this chip/price point. By no means an Apple expert so take this with a grain of salt, I just based this on some early YouTube reviews. This one sold me:
The new M1 chip in the Air looks like it blows away even the most recent Pros. I couldn't justify the added cost of the Pro over the Air for our use case (mostly email/internet with occasional word processing and photo/video editing). As far as I can tell, the Pro costs $300 more to add a fan that eliminates thermal throttling and 1 additional GPU core I probably wouldn't notice. From reviews, I think you'd have to push it incredibly hard to reach its thermal limits anyway.
The new M1 chip in the Air looks like it blows away even the most recent Pros. I couldn't justify the added cost of the Pro over the Air for our use case (mostly email/internet with occasional word processing and photo/video editing). As far as I can tell, the Pro costs $300 more to add a fan that eliminates thermal throttling and 1 additional GPU core I probably wouldn't notice. From reviews, I think you'd have to push it incredibly hard to reach its thermal limits anyway.
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Airs are pretty nice anymore. If she is just using it for school/surfing/email/etc, an air is perfect. Heavy CPU stuff will benefit from the memory and processing power of a pro.
