Hey Folks,
I'm helping a relative choose a new computer, and they're starting to look closely at the base 13.3" Macbook Air. Oddly enough, they are usually a PC user, but have grown frustrated with the poor hardware quality of numerous laptops (lenovo, samsung, HP, etc.). Especially when it comes to the trackpad and even holding a decent internet connection.
Anyhow, given that one can't upgrade the RAM later (grr...), I think they should go for 8GB of RAM. Brand new, this is $1299.
However, they can get the refurbished base model with only 4GB of RAM for just $999.
Is the extra 4GB of RAM worth $300? Ideally this would be their only computer for 3+ years, and they would only be running MS Office on it. They are potentially interested in running Windows in bootcamp, though.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
DCBass
I'm helping a relative choose a new computer, and they're starting to look closely at the base 13.3" Macbook Air. Oddly enough, they are usually a PC user, but have grown frustrated with the poor hardware quality of numerous laptops (lenovo, samsung, HP, etc.). Especially when it comes to the trackpad and even holding a decent internet connection.
Anyhow, given that one can't upgrade the RAM later (grr...), I think they should go for 8GB of RAM. Brand new, this is $1299.
However, they can get the refurbished base model with only 4GB of RAM for just $999.
Is the extra 4GB of RAM worth $300? Ideally this would be their only computer for 3+ years, and they would only be running MS Office on it. They are potentially interested in running Windows in bootcamp, though.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
DCBass