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Honestly, Retina Air?
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I support the OP. The 11" air is indeed the Apple's budget laptop.
http://thefreedictionary.com/budget
adj.
2. Appropriate for a restricted budget; inexpensive: a budget car; budget meals.
Indeed, if I were short of money and would not like to go deeply in debt but needed to have an Apple's laptop I'd definitely go for the 11" air. It can get any job done within reason. If your budget is so tight that that you cannot afford an Apple laptop you should look elsewhere.
There used to be times when the MBA was significantly lighter than the other laptops on the market. Back then, its thinness and lightness were a distinctive feature and a main selling point of the computer. However, this is not the case any more because the MBP has become thinner and lighter, too. Now a days the MBA is just a slower laptop with lesser features. That's why it's less expensive than the MBP.
Since the price of the retina MBP is getting closer to the price of the MBA (Apple actually offers a 13" rMBP which is just $100 more expensive than the base 13" MBA) we are likely to expect next year the MBA, in its current format, will disappear. There's quite the likelihood that we will have a thinner 12" rMBP next year which will replace the MBA. The future is retina displays and SSDs.
http://thefreedictionary.com/budget
adj.
2. Appropriate for a restricted budget; inexpensive: a budget car; budget meals.
Indeed, if I were short of money and would not like to go deeply in debt but needed to have an Apple's laptop I'd definitely go for the 11" air. It can get any job done within reason. If your budget is so tight that that you cannot afford an Apple laptop you should look elsewhere.
There used to be times when the MBA was significantly lighter than the other laptops on the market. Back then, its thinness and lightness were a distinctive feature and a main selling point of the computer. However, this is not the case any more because the MBP has become thinner and lighter, too. Now a days the MBA is just a slower laptop with lesser features. That's why it's less expensive than the MBP.
Since the price of the retina MBP is getting closer to the price of the MBA (Apple actually offers a 13" rMBP which is just $100 more expensive than the base 13" MBA) we are likely to expect next year the MBA, in its current format, will disappear. There's quite the likelihood that we will have a thinner 12" rMBP next year which will replace the MBA. The future is retina displays and SSDs.
right up until the point when you find out what's coming for the next MBP, right?
it never ends
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right up until the point when you find out what's coming for the next MBP, right?
it never ends
Haha, true. You got me!
right up until the point when you find out what's coming for the next MBP, right?
it never ends
Well, it's different if you want the ultimate portability of the 11" MBA. There isn't a MBP in that category to compete with...at least not yet.
I'd welcome that dilemma!