For those of you who choose Pros over Airs; why does a Pro serve you better than an Air? Is it because it's your only machine, and you need the hardware to be beefy?
The screen size! The day they announce the 15" Air I'm there.
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#72For those of you who choose Pros over Airs; why does a Pro serve you better than an Air? Is it because it's your only machine, and you need the hardware to be beefy?
Retina. Once you stop seeing pixels, it's painful to start seeing them again.
Ì'm waiting for the retina iMac/display, because working without external mouse and keyboard never worked for me (and 15" is probably too small for the desktop)
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#73I'm seriously wondering what my upgrade path is supposed to be. I have an ancient 2011 15" MBP, which was also the last user-upgradeable Apple laptop ever, but I remain hesitant to buy a new model. There is just not enough storage in the new ones, or in models that come close to my old one (1TB+) it's prohibitively expensive. At some point soon, my old MBP will probably disintegrate or get stolen, and it has features…
Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive. Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks. Once I learned to live with a 64GB macbook air, I realized that 90% of the data I was keeping around was not useful. It's very liberating. Yes, I realize 64GB of data is huge, but not for modern machines.
> Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive.
>Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks.
External drives are pretty unreliable. It's more probable the external drive will die before the laptops internal one.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive. Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks. Once I learned to live with a 64GB macbook air, I realized that 90% of the data I was keeping around was not useful. It's very liberating. Yes, I realize 64GB of data is huge, but not for modern machines.
> Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive. How does lugging around an extra piece of equipment that is inconvenient to handle equate to being less of a packrat? No. Inventing time-consuming and frustrating coping strategies just because newer tech is more limited than the old stuff? That's not a path I'm going to embark on. There is nothing liberating about it. The restrictions Apple currently im…
"cold data" from OP was probably a key factor.
They're responding to a different philosophy.
Take music: The main case is generally "I want to listen to music that I like" or "I want to listen to (specific) music from (artist)" of some sort. I have 150GB of music, but neither of those cases require most of it as most of it is only accessed very rarely. The music file storage can stay somewhere else, for occasional reference if I want to pull something esoteric from the collection. "Cloud" or an external drive are great for this.
Wash, rinse, repeat for photos, movies, old software, etc.
And when it "breaks", i.e. that single-point-of-failure HDD fails, as they do often catastrophically without warning, the files aren't lost. It's like keeping your will, the deed to your house, baby photos, etc. in the briefcase/backpack you carry around all day. Fine way to protect them until something happens to that briefcase.
It's liberating dropping 3 pounds from your shoulder, as well.
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#75For those of you who choose Pros over Airs; why does a Pro serve you better than an Air? Is it because it's your only machine, and you need the hardware to be beefy?
The screen size! The day they announce the 15" Air I'm there.
I asked about this, and it's against the concept of the Air. The reason being that it becomes unportable. Was there a 15" air, I'd have gone for it, but there wasn't, so I went with a 15" MBP.
I like it, but it does get hot, and is quite heavy compared to the airs. I'm happy with it but I think they're missing a trick!
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#76I just got a Mac Book Air for similar price two days ago. Should I refund it and get these? Will apple refund it? When will these start shipping?
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#77The best time to buy a Mac is when you need one; if you wait forever you'll never end up buying one. My work machine died less than a month ago; a little bit annoying that this happened but there's always going to be a better, faster, cheaper Mac in the future.
If you bought it less than a month ago there's a pretty good chance that Apple will replace it free of charge (I even got a small refund in one case, when they dropped the price of MacBook Airs at the same time as a hardware refresh).
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#78For those of you who choose Pros over Airs; why does a Pro serve you better than an Air? Is it because it's your only machine, and you need the hardware to be beefy?
It was a simple choice for me, much better screen and high specs generally without a huge compromise on cost or weight.
I went from an 11in Macbook Air to the 13 MBP retina and I've not regretted it once. I carry my laptop around all day and I've not noticed the extra weight.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive. Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks. Once I learned to live with a 64GB macbook air, I realized that 90% of the data I was keeping around was not useful. It's very liberating. Yes, I realize 64GB of data is huge, but not for modern machines.
> Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive. >Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks. External drives are pretty unreliable. It's more probable the external drive will die before the laptops internal one.
>External drives are pretty unreliable. It's more probable the external drive will die before the laptops internal one.
Citation needed.
There's no reason for the external drive to "die before the laptops internal one".
Not only that: you can actually buy the very same drives that are in your laptop for external use if you like.
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#80I'm seriously wondering what my upgrade path is supposed to be. I have an ancient 2011 15" MBP, which was also the last user-upgradeable Apple laptop ever, but I remain hesitant to buy a new model. There is just not enough storage in the new ones, or in models that come close to my old one (1TB+) it's prohibitively expensive. At some point soon, my old MBP will probably disintegrate or get stolen, and it has features…
I'm not sure how much longer it'll be around, but this latest refresh still left one non-SSD/non-retina MBP, the 13" model that comes with a 512 GB hdd and upgradeable to 1 TB. Price after upgrade is $1149 (vs. $2299 for a retina model with 1 TB): http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/. Not an option if you like the 15" screen though.