My wife's old (2011, I think) MacBook Air has been giving her some problems lately. I suspect the issues could be addressed by freeing up some disk space and possibly doing a complete reformat (or whatever the process is), but she's got it in her head that she's due for an upgrade anyway, and it's hard to argue against that given how old her laptop is.
She hates the noise that my work 2017 MacBook Pro's keyboard makes. I told her that they supposedly quieted it down on the latest model Air and Pro models, and that another option would be to get her an old-style keyboard Air or Pro, or give her my 2013 Pro (she wasn't fond of that last idea, since it would mean that we'd be getting *me* a new laptop
). So I told her to go to Best Buy to try out the latest Air and its keyboard.
After her trip, it sounds like she's not opposed to the new keyboard, but she also got excited playing with a 15" MBP while she was there. She liked the larger screen and would lower the resolution to make things bigger for her "old eyes". Ugh. That's over $2K. Oh, she also seems to think that she needs gobs of storage space, and keeps mentioning 512GB. Ugh again.
I think I can talk her down to the latest MBP Air 13" w/256GB of storage. She is not a power user by any means, but she did recently start putting together some iMovies for a product she sells through Facebook, so my main concern is how well iMovie will run on the 2018 Air w/8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. I'm not sure if iMovie's performance depends more on the CPU or the GPU, so feel free to educate me about that, too.
So can some newest-gen Air owners who use iMovie chime in on this? Thanks!
She hates the noise that my work 2017 MacBook Pro's keyboard makes. I told her that they supposedly quieted it down on the latest model Air and Pro models, and that another option would be to get her an old-style keyboard Air or Pro, or give her my 2013 Pro (she wasn't fond of that last idea, since it would mean that we'd be getting *me* a new laptop
). So I told her to go to Best Buy to try out the latest Air and its keyboard.After her trip, it sounds like she's not opposed to the new keyboard, but she also got excited playing with a 15" MBP while she was there. She liked the larger screen and would lower the resolution to make things bigger for her "old eyes". Ugh. That's over $2K. Oh, she also seems to think that she needs gobs of storage space, and keeps mentioning 512GB. Ugh again.
I think I can talk her down to the latest MBP Air 13" w/256GB of storage. She is not a power user by any means, but she did recently start putting together some iMovies for a product she sells through Facebook, so my main concern is how well iMovie will run on the 2018 Air w/8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. I'm not sure if iMovie's performance depends more on the CPU or the GPU, so feel free to educate me about that, too.
So can some newest-gen Air owners who use iMovie chime in on this? Thanks!
