Hey guys!
I'm currently looking to decide whether or not to purchase one of the Macbooks as an attempt to upgrade from my HP EliteBook 8440, which tends to run really hot with less than 4 hours of battery life. I'm still new to the whole Apple merchandise scene.
My current budget is $1,500 but I do prefer to spend under that range, and I will be having education pricing since it is for college.
The college laptop specifications requires that I must have a Windows OS installed in my laptop, so I'm looking into boot camp/dual boot. The laptop will be used primarily for heavy programming as well as graphic editing with Photoshop and other Adobe tools. I assume that I will need a relatively good amount of disk space for this (more than 256GB, seeing as how my current laptop is contains more than this amount). I'm only an occasional gamer, but I would appreciate a display of good graphics (but I'm not a big fan of Retina).
I'm specifically looking at the 13" Macbook Air 2013 with the Haswell Processor versus the current-stock 13" Non-Retina Macbook Pro, although I also have the option of waiting it out in case the Macbook Pro comes out with the Haswell Processor before the school year starts. I am also open to other options, such as refurbished products although the person funding for the laptop prefers I buy a new model.
If I choose the MBA, I compromise durability (moderately rough traveling conditions and treatment), disk space, and memory. If I choose the nMBP, I lose in battery, and processor.
What do you think?
I'm currently looking to decide whether or not to purchase one of the Macbooks as an attempt to upgrade from my HP EliteBook 8440, which tends to run really hot with less than 4 hours of battery life. I'm still new to the whole Apple merchandise scene.
My current budget is $1,500 but I do prefer to spend under that range, and I will be having education pricing since it is for college.
The college laptop specifications requires that I must have a Windows OS installed in my laptop, so I'm looking into boot camp/dual boot. The laptop will be used primarily for heavy programming as well as graphic editing with Photoshop and other Adobe tools. I assume that I will need a relatively good amount of disk space for this (more than 256GB, seeing as how my current laptop is contains more than this amount). I'm only an occasional gamer, but I would appreciate a display of good graphics (but I'm not a big fan of Retina).
I'm specifically looking at the 13" Macbook Air 2013 with the Haswell Processor versus the current-stock 13" Non-Retina Macbook Pro, although I also have the option of waiting it out in case the Macbook Pro comes out with the Haswell Processor before the school year starts. I am also open to other options, such as refurbished products although the person funding for the laptop prefers I buy a new model.
If I choose the MBA, I compromise durability (moderately rough traveling conditions and treatment), disk space, and memory. If I choose the nMBP, I lose in battery, and processor.
What do you think?