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CreekDog

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12. MacBook Air 13" or MacBook Pro 13"
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 05:18 PM
Dec 2011

Consider buying "refurbished" from the Apple store, it will save you a couple hundred dollars and you still end up with a product that looks new (they pretty much "new-ify" them for you) and you get the full warranty too.

What I like about the MacBook Air is that it's Solid State Drive is essentially like running the operating system off flash memory, so it's almost instant on and off, and almost any program loads more quickly because loading from the drive doesn't require physical writing or spinning of a hard drive.

That said, the 11" is difficult to work with --it's too small. The 13" is easier, pretty much just as light and has a memory card slot too.

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