Quick question: Best Buy has the 11" MBA for $100 cheaper than Apple. However, I believe it is last year's model. I am wondering if there is much difference or enough to justify $100 more.
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Last year's MBA vs. new model
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The SSD in the new model is twice as fast. Try to play around with both and see if you notice a difference.
On the other hand, for $200 more you get the newest model with 8GB of RAM. I'm playing the devil's advocate here...
I had a chance to use them side by side for a couple of weeks. In the 11" model, you would really have to stretch to see any practical difference. Is it there? Yeah, but it's in the "measurable but not meaningful" category based on my use.
Not that that would really make any practical difference. What do people do with their drives that wasn't already basically instantaneous with the 2014 drive.
Well....you'd presumably get startup twice as fast...other than that, all you would get for most purposes is a system that isn't really very well balanced and therefore no practical difference.
But I bet startup from powered off is impressive!
Indeed, I imagine most of the time it takes to start up involves initializing devices and services. Not reading a ton of stuff from disk.
Refurb is $679.00 from Apple
http://store.apple.com/us/product/GD711LL/B/refurbished-macbook-air-14ghz-dual-core-intel-core-i5
If you are OK with refurbished this may be an option.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/GD711LL/B/refurbished-macbook-air-14ghz-dual-core-intel-core-i5
If you are OK with refurbished this may be an option.