Apple MacBook Air/Pro. Help with Buying

boovohh on 23/01/2022 - 14:30

Hey everyone
Planning to get a MacBook Air or pro or open to other suggestions
Mainly for work and leisure use. Might just play one game or two. (Cricket or rugby ones)

Getting Mac Pro 13 inch for $2029
Getting Mac Air 13 inch for $1569
And then the free AirPods

Getting 12/24/36 months interest free

It’s my second laptop ever. Got my last one in 2013 which has given up …. Almost

Open to any suggestions. Would be happy with windows too

Main reason for going with mac is it doesn’t lag as much as windows and is smooth in operating

General Discussion

Comments

  • Sadie on 23/01/2022 - 14:33
    +1

    The new MacBook Air is very fast and perfectly suited to what you need. I bought mine in the same deal last year, selling the AirPods made it a cheap laptop.

    • boovohh on 23/01/2022 - 14:43

      How much did it cost you and how much were you able to sell the AirPods for if you don’t mind me asking

      • CheapThingsAreNice on 23/01/2022 - 20:44

        I had issues selling mine because there were so many on Facebook. Sold for $200 eventually on fb marketplace.

        You may have more luck in a non studenty city

  • Sadie on 23/01/2022 - 14:50

    I believe I paid the same for the MacBook ($1500ish), and I upgraded to the AirPod Pros and sold them for $380

  • Dunno on 23/01/2022 - 16:51

    Depends entirely on your needs, I don't think Apple offers a lot of value with it's laptops upgrades. If you want slim/light and long battery the Air is a great pick if you have macOS experience. Downside is the small SSD and lack of ports/requiring a dock/adapter for some uses like HDMI, full size USB, Ethernet etc.

    If it's 13 inch you want and you are willing to drop 2k I would be considering all options like the Dell XPS range and high end ultrabooks.

    If you are happy with a heavy laptop for 2k theres heaps of 15.6 inch gaming laptops that will be 3.5+GHz/16GB/Dedicated GPU/512+GB SSD+1TB HDD/1080P or 4K screen etc to look at, tens of SKU's.

    • CheapThingsAreNice on 23/01/2022 - 20:47

      I agree with your points but also want to point out that the MacBook Air offers the best performance per watt of any intel laptop.

      There’s a lot to be said for the user experience of all-day-forget-about-it battery and the user experience of the thing barely ever getting hot

      I run a sffpc with a 3900x at home and honestly the MacBook Air m1 is faster most of the time (albeit I’m a bit cheap on the m.2 drive)

      Your criticism about ports is super duper valid though and the bugs with m1 and external monitors still persist! Apple whyyy

      • CheapThingsAreNice on 24/01/2022 - 21:25

        ahh left this open and cant edit. obviously m1 is not an intel laptop. you know what i mean though folks.

  • ace310 on 23/01/2022 - 21:01

    If the OS is not an issue and you are happy with Windows as well. Do consider Lenovo thinkpads and Dell ultrabooks as well. I have Lenovo Thinkpad 13" since 3 years now and pretty happy with it. I got it from my previous work. Probably it was around $1600 from pbtech. i5-8250u/16gb/500gb ssd.

    Current company gave me dell inspiron 10th gen i5/16gb/250gb ssd. This one is pretty decent as well. bit heavier than lenovo. but both are good.

    I prefer lenovo against dell inspiron. But first choice will be xps. I still have a xps from 2010 with nvidia graphics card/16gb ram/250gb ssd running.

  • Drcspy on 24/01/2022 - 08:00

    Windows in and of itself doesn't "lag" thats more to do with the hardware you have under the bonnet. Y'know - ram - cpu - gpu - ssd…….

  • jcrob111 on 24/01/2022 - 15:11

    MacBook Air is incredible value for what you get in terms of power and build quality. Really a joy to use.

    I wouldn’t spend the extra $500 on the Pro.

    • Martz5 on 25/01/2022 - 07:48

      I agree. Theres not too much difference between the entry m1 air and entry m1 pro to justify the price difference . Definitely not worth $500

      • melodrake on 25/01/2022 - 11:38

        I would tend to agree, unless someone likes to play some games! I went with pro in the end for the fan to hopefully keep the temperature lower (not sure if it’ll make a significant difference).

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