I am looking to get a new 11" Air for law school come fall to replace my current MBP and I am curious if my 2010 13" MBP will be sufficient as a desktop when paired with a 27" display, keyboard, trackpad, and 1TB external HD. It has a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 ram, a 250GB HDD, an NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256MB graphics card, and its running 10.8.2. I mainly use it for paper writing, some excel spreadsheet work, email, recreational and research web surfing, music listening/downloading, and a little movie watching/gaming.
To make my MBP into a desktop I would have to purchase the display, keyboard, and trackpad for around $1k. On the other hand a new/refurbished iMac runs around $1600-$1800. I like the idea of saving $600-$800 to put toward an 11" Air, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot later on in an effort to save some money.
If anyone has some advice it would be greatly appreciated.
To make my MBP into a desktop I would have to purchase the display, keyboard, and trackpad for around $1k. On the other hand a new/refurbished iMac runs around $1600-$1800. I like the idea of saving $600-$800 to put toward an 11" Air, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot later on in an effort to save some money.
If anyone has some advice it would be greatly appreciated.