Not sure which what to do now: cMBP or 2013 MBA

I was waiting for WWDC to get either a cMBP or a rMBP, but of course that never happened.

I'm still pretty desperate for a laptop as the one I'm using now shuts off as soon as the plug is removed as well as a whole host of other problems, I start university in September so then is the absolute latest I could wait and being a student I obviously want to take advantage of the back to school offer.

So now of course I'm thinking of getting a MBA but I'm not sure if would be powerful enough (With my budget I would get the 13 inch, 128gb SSD and upgrade to 8gb of RAM).

Things I would use it for are:

Document writing and editing, I'm on a business course but it's more practical so where setting up businesses ourselves so you can imagine what we'd need to do for that.

Music production and DJ'ing, I mainly use Ableton live for production and Traktor for DJ'ing with plugging in an S4.

Photo editing, not much just making a few flyers on photoshop and possibly brochures and logos etc depending on what comes up in the course.

& general stuff like watching lots of films and series as well browsing etc..

I also have quite a large music and photo collection.

So yeah I'm a bit stuck really I don't want to buy outdated tech and then again then again I don't want to buy a laptop that's so expensive only to realize that it can't handle my usage.

Has anyone got any suggestions or in a similar situation?

 

I doubt it could hold my music collection but then again I don't think any SSD's in my price range can so it's looking like an external hard drive which is a bit of a pain.

So your pretty confident that the MBA can handle music production/photo editing/document editing yeah?

Cool if so that's perfect for me

Should of mentioned that I watch a LOT of HD series' so need them to look good, thanks for your help by the way.

 

Hey, yeah my original plan a few months ago was something along those lines but reading about haswell and SSD's swayed me.

I went into the apple store today to have a play round on them both and the cMBP seemed much slower compared to the MBA, also the videos/photos seemed to be better on the air.

My main worry is that it wont handle Photoshop/Ableton or Traktor as well as the pro.

I think it is probable that I'm going to go with the MBA and an external harddrive though as I really cant wait till October.