Hey y'all. My partner is beginning a career as a realtor next week. She just moved to the US and is coming from a iphone 6 a ten year old 15" macbook pro. She is definitely getting something smaller than 15" but I wonder how much of an adjustment there will be in going to a smaller screen.
She is buying an iphone X and a macbook or macbook pro for work and home use. Portability is important as she will carry it all day every day. She'll be taking pictures and posting listings. She'll be surfing the web. She may make some short films about listings. And then there's the personal stuff - bills, media consumption, surfing the web. She tends to like the best and newest but doesn't want to overbuy insanely. What would you recommend? Macbook? Or will it be underpowered? Macbook pro? Touchbar or no?
Thank you in advance for any help!!
Since I'm stuck here waiting for 3 people who have never heard of a lyft, I think I've finally realized what seems weird about the term "media consumption" aside from it being long and clunky to say. When you consume something, you ingest it, but you don't leave it still sitting on the plate. But even if we think of consumption as a not necessarily destructive act, you can close your eyes and use your mind to imagine the experience of eating the apple, but the apple remains on the plate, and all you did was imagine the experience, you didn't actually consume it. The same can be said of media consumption. If I watch a film, I'm not really consuming anything of substance. Without even getting into how flimsily & insubstantial films are generally written, the film still exists where it existed before, in tact for others to watch, light on fire, or consume smothered in steak sauce. But again, beyond that, all I did was observe the film, not take its ideas or events on board and make them my own. I only imagined doing so while observing it, then discarded that experience as imagined.
The very idea of consuming media implies there's some sort of two way interaction between the media itself and the person doing something to it by consuming it, but if a filmmaker gets their film on Netflix, and I tune it to observe a downloaded temp copy of it, that's a pretty one-way interaction. Thinking about it, I can't think of any way that "consuming digital media" really works as an idea. If I have a conversation with someone in person, I wouldn't say "I'm consuming your words" any more than I'd say "I consumed that painting" in an art museum. What we're describing is either seeing, hearing, or both. It's very odd that we don't have a good descriptor word for both seeing and hearing, for how long theatre has been a part of human civilization. Or hunting, or paying attention to your surroundings etc. Weird.
But more importantly to your post, the MacBook Air. Most useful laptop they make. The ergonomics, battery life & speed of charging, MagSafe, useful ports, size & proportions of it, beat everything else.
