Buying an older MBA (rev B or C) Yes or No?

The olds are crap, the new ones are much better.

 

You find a me a new one for $650 and I'll buy a couple. New ones are at least 2x more expensive and specswise not that much better than the old one.

Imho $650 for a rev B/C machine is a pretty good deal. You can always add a Runcore SSD later on and should make it plenty fast and fairly close to the new ones. Only things missing are SD slot and an extra USB slot but I don't think those are such a huge deal at this price. The new one is a little more sturdy because of the new design of the bottom part but if you're careful with yours to begin with it's not a big deal once again.

 

I would not want the problems of the B or C sorry npt worth the saving. PS I had the A and B.

they can be found for about that price however get a new one it will be less stressful.

 

Well I'm getting my new one Monday. And...

I'm going to be selling my rev C with SSD. It's been a perfect MBA without a single issue. I just wish to get the smaller form factor otherwise I would just keep using this one.

Whoever winds up buying this will get a good MBA at a great price. Also AppleCare coverage for 23 more months.

So they aren't all crap no matter what you think!!!

 

I've had everyone one, only one that gave me "issues" was the Rev A 2nd week model I had a couple years ago. Rev B/C are fine machines and for the prices right now are really good machines.

I got a less than a month old 2.13 Rev C for 850 shipped last week. Saving of almost $600 over a new 13" 1.86 with no backlit keyboard.

My advice, if you're getting an 11" than it's worth it over the Rev C 13 but I would highly consider a Rev B/C 13 over a new 13 unless you're going for the ultimate because there's no comparable machine.

 

Don't buy the ones with the SLOW hard drive if you look for an older MBA.

 

Your posts are so enlightening.

Old rev b and c are great machines.

 

OK if you say so....lol

 

I do, and they are- /sarcasm.

And if you wonder why, you have been spewing dishonest, posts everywhere last week-

OP-

I miss my rev B's lighted keyboard- but the new 4GB ram really makes up for VMware w/unity. It is quite a bit faster than the rev. b.

 

yea OK, you have no idea what you are talking about, get a clue before you post pure crap.

 

YES, the rev.A ,B and C were crap just google it for a good laugh.

 

I know as do others exactly what I am talking about.

Any post by you on these boards holds zero credibility in my book. I just needed the OP to know that you had no idea what you were talking about when you spouted that the rev b and c were garbage.

 

yada, yada, yada....

like I said pull up the old post from that time, its a joke.

 

I'll chime in as well, I've owned B & C and now the newest MBA. While there's no question the new MBA is my favorite, my B & C were just fine. I had no issues with them, and the B hinge felt loose (never broke), but Apple still replaced the entire assembly under their hinge recall.

 

What's the difference between crap and pure crap? I'm just curious? Maybe there is an ULTIMATE crap too?