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MacBook Air MC503LL/A 13.3-Inch for $800 a good deal?

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chessterino

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A friend of mines is selling me a Apple MacBook Air MC503LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop for $800. Do you guys think this is a good deal? It has the following specs.

1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
128 GB Solid State Drive, 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce 320M Integrated Graphics, 13.3 inch LED Display
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard Operating System
 
chessterino said:
A friend of mines is selling me a Apple MacBook Air MC503LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop for $800. Do you guys think this is a good deal? It has the following specs.

1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
128 GB Solid State Drive, 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce 320M Integrated Graphics, 13.3 inch LED Display
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard Operating System
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yes i think it is a good idea, what condition is it in though
 
yeah sounds like a good deal. I bought my MB543LL/A with 1.6 120GB for $900 last year, but it had a lot of extras on the computer(programs) and accesories. Whats included?
 
It's up to the ram. Remember 2gb is ALL you will get for the life of the unit.
 
Not such a good buy

I am not an apple expert but I have been researching MacBook airs. The model number is the old model the new 900 models are about 10 times faster.

A couple hundred dollars will get you a much better computer. Call apple and ask a technician or go to an apple store or best buy geek dept and ask them.
::)
 
it's a good deal. youll find them for around $1050 new still. the 2010 is plenty fast...and it games better than the 2011 =p

im more than happy with my 2010 11" 128gb
 
3dflyboy1 said:
it does?? :eek:
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yeah. the processors in the 2011 models are about 30-40% faster, but the intel hd3000 is about the same amount slower. on paper that might balance out, but games rely much more on gpu than cpu. real world results favor the 2010 in gaming.
 
johnadams2007 said:
yeah. the processors in the 2011 models are about 30-40% faster, but the intel hd3000 is about the same amount slower. on paper that might balance out, but games rely much more on gpu than cpu. real world results favor the 2010 in gaming.
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Ummmm, no.

If you are comparing the 2011 MBA against the 2010 MBA in terms of gaming, and you are looking at the Anandtech review/scores, that's not what I see. What am I missing?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4528/the-2011-macbook-air-11-13inch-review/11

Note that a lot of the systems that show faster than the 2011 MBA are MBPs. If you look further down where they include the 2010 MBA in the list, you will see how it compares with it. I wouldn't be putting my money into a C2D processor based on the "superior" gaming performance of the 2010 MBA platform over the 2011. But that's just me. YMMV. :apple:
 
ZBoater said:
Ummmm, no.

If you are comparing the 2011 MBA against the 2010 MBA in terms of gaming, and you are looking at the Anandtech review/scores, that's not what I see. What am I missing?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4528/the-2011-macbook-air-11-13inch-review/11

Note that a lot of the systems that show faster than the 2011 MBA are MBPs. If you look further down where they include the 2010 MBA in the list, you will see how it compares with it. I wouldn't be putting my money into a C2D processor based on the "superior" gaming performance of the 2010 MBA platform over the 2011. But that's just me. YMMV. :apple:
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The title of the page you linked to is titled: "GPU Performance: A Step Back" which kind of goes against the point you are trying to make.

The new version and the Intel graphics solution is inferior in most cases to the older macbook air. First, dont look at Starcraft 2 scores unless that is a game you are really going to play the most because it is highly CPU limited. Most games are heavily limited by the GPU but Starcraft has a lot going on with the CPU. Otherwise that page shows the other games with higher frames per second on the older version than the new one. Also, if you game in Windows than the older macbook air was much faster than the new version because the drivers for the nvidia GPU were much better optimized than the Intel HD3000. All that said, I would still buy a new version because gaming is probably just a hobby on a macbook air.
 
futbalguy said:
The title of the page you linked to is titled: "GPU Performance: A Step Back" which kind of goes against the point you are trying to make..
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The title, perhaps, and if thats all you read then you are missing my point. :D

Read the results and compare 2010 MBA vs 2011 MBA, which is what the topic at hand. To say the 2010 MBA is a better gaming platform than the 2011 MBA is a misstatement. Granted, they both suck at gaming, but that's another story... :apple:
 
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