Hi Ricardo, thanks for responding. What you said was pretty much what I expected, but good to have it confirmed. As for high-resource tasks,I am hoping to do a lot more with garage-band once I get a keyboard. But another option would be for me to keep my MBP as my main computer, and just use the Air for travel, teaching, and other situations where I need portability, which speaks to your suggestion of just getting the standard 11 inch. Cheers, Donna
On Aug 15, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi Donna, > > There is a noticeable difference in sound from a macbook air to a macbook > pro. But this is to be expected on a smaller machine. Sound is so poor in > my opinion, headphones will come in handy a lot. Especially in noisy public > environments. As far as performance, I don't think you will see any > difference at all. From following your post the last couple years, you don't > seem to do many resource intensive tasks like audio production, or anything > like that. I think you could probably even be able to make do with the > standard 11 inch air. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Aug 14, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Since I'm going to be schlepping my Mac around a lot for work in the next >> several months, and possibly then some, I'm seriously considering shelling >> out the $$ for an 11-inch MacBook Air. I'm looking at one of the new ones, >> with all the specs maxed out. My MBP is two years old, running a 2.53GHZ >> processor with 4G of ram. I'm wondering if there's anyone on list who can >> give me an accurate comparison of the user experience on these two models. >> A couple of the things I'm wondering about are: >> 1. Speed. How will day-today- use compare. My MBP has the faster >> processor, but the Air has the solid state drive, which I assume will >> compensate, at least to some extent. >> >> 2. Sound quality? this won't be a deal breaker, but wondering how the two >> compare. >> >> If there are any other differences that people have experienced, either good >> or bad, I'd love to hear. >> Best, >> Donna >> >> P.S. I am aware of the connectivity differences, that's something I can >> live with. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
