Macbook pro or Macbook air?

[i.moroney]

I'm trying to decide between the macbook pro(13") and the macbook air (13")
My main uses would be:

-Note taking
-Photo editing
-Gaming (CS:S, Half life 2, Garry's mod etc...)
-Web surfing
-Music listening

I wouldn't mind having an external hard drive for my photos and such but is 128GB SSD enough to hold my music and maybe five games? along with word documents and movies?

And how would the base model macbook air handle the games listed?

 

[soco]

Both options are absurd.

Go for one of these bad boys. I'm helpful.

 

[Dark Void]

either will handle that usage quite well. decide if you want power or portability.

 

[palpatine]

today, i would definitely get the mbp. it is far more powerful than the mba, which is quite dated now, and a much better buy for the money.

tomorrow, maybe the mba. it is supposedly due for an update any day. if you can wait, then you can compare the two and make a decision then.

128GB is a lot of memory. how much music do you have, and why do you need to have the music on your computer? i would put music in the cloud / on external drive.

 

[Burton8219]

Both options are absurd.

Go for one of these bad boys. I'm helpful.

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Hey I'm from Oceanside too! But back on topic... as soon as you said photo editing and gaming the MBA went out the window for me. Much better off getting a more powerful machine. Better to have too much power than not enough.

 

[awer25]

today, i would definitely get the mbp. it is far more powerful than the mba, which is quite dated now, and a much better buy for the money.

tomorrow, maybe the mba. it is supposedly due for an update any day. if you can wait, then you can compare the two and make a decision then.

^^ This.

128GB is a lot of memory.

^^ Not this.

 

[Freyqq]

I'm trying to decide between the macbook pro(13") and the macbook air (13")
My main uses would be:

-Note taking
-Photo editing
-Gaming (CS:S, Half life 2, Garry's mod etc...)
-Web surfing
-Music listening

I wouldn't mind having an external hard drive for my photos and such but is 128GB SSD enough to hold my music and maybe five games? along with word documents and movies?

And how would the base model macbook air handle the games listed?

1. if you get a mba, wait for the new models that macrumors keeps suggesting are coming soon

2. CS:S is old, so it should run fine on a mba

3. if you're doing anything beyond note-taking, web surfing, and music listening, i'd still recommend a mbp for future-proofing. Also, photo-editing beyond really simple stuff would warrant a more powerful computer.

 

[palpatine]

^^ This.

^^ Not this.

lol. i just added another 20gb of scanned books to my computer this morning. i could always use more! but, frankly, even a 2 tb drive would be too small. so, the answer is memory mgmt. what do you need on your computer all the time and what can you afford to have elsewhere (cloud or external drive)?